Past Event Category: Jewish History
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Mar 23“Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks of Jewish Resistance”
Chad S.A. Gibbs
Zoom
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Chad S.A. Gibbs, Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026). Comment by Jacob Flaws (Kean University) Chaired by Hanna Green (College of Charleston) Zoom Webinar Registration On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied …
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Nov 4“Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany”
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron
Zoom
Ofer Ashkenazi, Rebekka Grossmann, Sarah Wobick-Segev, and Shira Miron Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2025). Tuesday, 4 November 2025 11:00 CST, ZOOM Register for Zoom webinar Sponsored by: George L. Mosse Program in History Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies UW-Madison Center for German and European Studies Still Lives …
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Apr 9Book Event: “A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany”
Cindy Schweich Handler and Harry H. Handler
Fluno Center, Skyview Room (8th Floor)
A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany Harry H. Handler and Cindy Schweich Handler In conversation with Prof. Brandon Bloch When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the WWI battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later …
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Feb 4“X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII”
Memorial Union, Old Madison Room (800 Langdon St.)
“X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII” Leah Garrett (Hunter College, CUNY) In June of 1942, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff formed an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees who had escaped to Britain. The resulting volunteers were a motley group of intellectuals, artists, and athletes, most …
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Nov 13Frances Tanzer, “Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City”
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
“Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City” Frances Tanzer (Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Jewish Culture, Clark University) Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press), which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss …
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Nov 6The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
The 2023 Kutler Lectures with Riv-Ellen Prell