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Bringing Testimony, Transforming a Canon: Fiction and Reality in Italian Women Writers of the Holocaust

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Stefania Lucamante will discuss how Italian women writers transmitted a gendered perspective on the devastating effects of Italy’s 1938 racial laws and the Holocaust. She will probe how their works validate notions of collaboration and understanding between fictional writing and the (gendered) rewriting of historical events. Dr. Lucamante completed her graduate studies in Rome […]

The Mischlinge Expose: Multimedia Performance about Intermarriage in the Third Reich and Beyond

York Room, The Birch Mansion 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

The Mischlinge Exposé is a many-layered multimedia performance centering around Carolyn Enger’s family's history and her personal experience with Judaism. The program features the music of German-Jewish-born composers Felix Mendelssohn, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Hanns Eisler. It will also highlight a new work written by the acclaimed composer Bruce Adolphe especially for this project. The […]

Postponed-Historian to Examine Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Due to inclement weather, the previously scheduled lecture by Dr. Martin Dean on “Babi Yar and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” scheduled for Thursday, March 8 at 1:20 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC-158) is being canceled. It is being re-scheduled for the fall.

Year 1938 in the Development of the Holocaust to be Examined

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Frank Mecklenburg, Director of Research and Chief Archivist at The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) New York , will speak on Tuesday, October 22 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni […]

World Renown Researcher to Discuss Intergenerational Effects of Trauma

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Thursday, March 5 at 12 p.m., Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of […]

Free

Re-scheduled as a Webex Event–Scholar to Examine Legacy of Anti-Jewish Persecution in the Soviet Union

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Thursday, April 23 at 12 p.m., Elissa Bemporad, Ph.D., the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust and an Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will speak about her new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, […]

Free

Workshop on Teaching about Genocide with Testimony and Film

Friends Hall (SC219) 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mawah, NJ

TIME: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PLACE: Robert A. Scott Student Center Friends Hall (SC219) Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road (Rt. 202) Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623  FREE OF CHARGE –Breakfast and Lunch Included Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours) Assists in Adopting and Implementing N.J. Core Curriculum Standards Language Arts 3.1 Social Studies 6.1­6.3 World Languages 7.1 and 7.2 Register Here: https://bit.ly/2vm2IJo Program 8:30-9 a.m. Registration and Refreshments 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Teaching Film with Testimony I: The Promise:  Introduction of Resources and […]

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