75+ Years: The Holocaust in German Literature and Film Today
CfP: NeMLA 2021 (March 8-14, 2021 in Philadelphia)
In 2016, the Serbian government announced that it was initiating a programme of restitution for Jewish victims of the Holocaust in wartime Serbia. The “heirless property restitution law,” the first of its kind in Eastern Europe, proposed that thousands of buildings confiscated from Jews during the occupation would be handed to the country’s Association of Jewish Communities. The government also undertook to offer financial support to the community in the form of an annual sum of 950,000 Euros for the next twenty-five years.
A webinar entitled 'En busca de los orígenes ideológicos del Holocausto / In Search of the Holocaust's Ideological Origins' will be held on Thursday June 25 from 4-6 p.m. ET (1-3 p.m. PT, 9-11 p.m. GMT, 10-12 p.m. CET, 11 p.m.-1 a.m. IDT).
On behalf of my colleagues at the Blavatnik Archive Foudation (BAF) in New York I am pleased to announce that The Moscow State Yiddish Theater (MSYT) collection at the BAF is now fully cataloged and accessible online at http://www.blavatnikarchive.org/collection/2
Autobiographies establish the author’s own individual voice and the ability of that voice to display a social scandal or provoke a scandal. In so doing, authors aim to understand the social space around them, and in particular, their personal experience to provoke others within their narrative from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
In consideration of the impact of the current health emergency on the work of many scholars and colleagues, the editors of Close Encounters in War Journal have decided to extend the deadline for the 3rd issue of the journal: we invite the submission of articles of 6000-8000 words (endnotes included, bibliographical references not included in word-count: please see submission guidelines at https://closeencountersinwar.org/instruction-for-authors-submissions/) in English by 20th
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Heroines of the Holocaust: Frameworks of Resistance
Wagner College Holocaust Center
June 2-3, 2021
“Nobody taught us how to fight or to perform our duties. We learned by ourselves not only how to clean and use a gun, but how to conduct ourselves in combat and battle, how to blow up a bridge or a train, how to cut communication lines and how to stand on guard.”
—Sara Ginaite, partisan, March 8, 1944 (International Woman’s Day)
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This session will analyze representations of armed conflict in contemporary media, exploring how these representations might influence the popular understanding of global and civil conflict and the way that these representations of conflict might be read as an attempt to change (or maintain) a certain world.
118th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV
Thursday, November 12, 2020 to Sunday, November 15, 2020
Sahara Las Vegas Hotel
Hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
*** Given concerns about the COVID-19 virus, organizers will be monitoring the situation as we continue planning for our conference in November.
For nearly two millennia, Christian views of Jews and Judaism were almost exclusively critical and even hostile. In the first four centuries of the Common Era, Christians increasingly defined themselves in opposition to Jews. This antipathy was manifest in an extensive range of polemical literature whose main arguments became entwined with formative Christian self-understanding.
