Announcements
Faculty book among top ten medieval studies books of 2023
Medievalists.net has named Professor Azzan Yadin-Israel's new book, TEMPTATION TRANSFORMED: THE STORY OF HOW THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT BECAME AN APPLE, among the top ten medieval books of 2023.
The 2023 Ian Karten Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Nancy Sinkoff
Karten Memorial Lecture | Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990) and the Beginnings of Khurbn forshung (Holocaust Studies) in the United States
This talk will explore the contribution of Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a postwar American Jewish public intellectual and historian, to the field of Holocaust historiography. Witness to the vital Jewish world of pre-war Vilna and to its destruction, Dawidowicz devoted her life to bringing this world to the attention of the American public. Her The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945 (1975), a classic of “intentionalist” Holocaust historiography that emphasized the centrality of Hitler’s antisemitic ideology to the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” burnished her reputation as an authority on East European Jewry, the Holocaust, and antisemitism, preparing her to play a principal role in the construction of postwar American Holocaust consciousness. This talk will analyze her relationship to the tradition of Jewish historiography inaugurated by Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) in the late nineteenth century and continued by East European Jews before, during, and in the aftermath of the Nazi period, both in and beyond Eastern Europe. Dubnow and his disciples–including Dawidowicz–conceived of their work not only to further academic knowledge, but also to commemorate the dead and to cultivate Jewish national identity.
Time: 18:00
Date: 7 February 2023
Venue: Online via Zoom
Prof. Sinkoff publishes piece on the plight of refugee children from Ukraine
"My Child, You Are a Refugee": 1942 poem achingly familiar today
The Forward
April 4, 2022
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Prof. Raucher's op-ed published in NBC News
Religious women have abortions, too. And many faiths affirm abortion rights.
It's long overdue for the American public to recognize the diversity of religious positions in the abortion debate in this country — and for our courts to honor them.
Faculty book named in top 26 books in Jewish History to read in 2022
Professor Nancy Sinkoff's book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, named as one of the top 26 books in Jewish History to read in 2022!
