Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: Winter 2013

Upcoming Programs
> Wednesday, February 13, 7–8:30 p.m.
> 2013 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture
> Understanding Local Genocide: A Galician Town in the Time of the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
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> Tuesday–Wednesday, February 26–27
> Symposium
> New Research and Resources on Children and the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
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> Wednesday, March 13, 7–8:30 p.m.
> 2013 Ina Levine Annual Lecture
> Hitler's Path to Power
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
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> Calls for Applications
> Summer Research Assistantships for Graduate Students
> June–August 2013
> Applications due January 15
>
> 2013 Annual Seminar for Seminary and Religious Studies Faculty
> The Overlooked Revolution: The Shift in Catholic Teaching on the Jews since
Vatican II
> June 10–14, 2013
> Applications due February 19
>
> 2013 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty
> Teaching about the Holocaust: Antisemitism, the Final Solution, Jewish
Response,
> and Denial
> June 3–14, 2013
> Applications due February 25
>
> Emerging Scholars Program:
> Forthcoming Publications
> Albert Kaganovitch, University of Manitoba and 2009–2010 Matthew Family
Fellow
> The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa (University of
Wisconsin Press 2013)
>
> Corry Guttstadt, University of Hamburg and 2008–09 Charles H. Revson
Foundation
Fellow
> Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press 2013)
>
> Center-Sponsored Publications about the Holocaust
> Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume III, 1941–1942
> By Jürgen Matthäus with Emil Kerenji, Jan Lambertz, and Leah Wolfson
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> Center-Sponsored Journal
> Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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> PROGRAM
> WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 7–8:30 P.M.
> 2013 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture
> Understanding Local Genocide: A Galician Town in the Time of the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European
History
and professor of history and professor of German studies at Brown University.
Considered one of the world's leading specialists on the subject of
genocide, he
is the author of seven books and the editor of three volumes. His most recent
book, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
(2007),
examines the politics of memory in western Ukraine and removal of both the
memory
and the few material remains of Jewish culture there. He is currently
writing a
book titled The Voice of Your Brother's Blood: Buczacz, Biography of a Town.
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> This lecture will describe and analyze the mass murder of the Jewish
population of
Buczacz, a small town in eastern Galicia, in 1941–44. Buczacz had been a
multiethnic town for four centuries, inhabited by Poles, Ukrainians, and
Jews.
During the German occupation in World War II, about half of the Jewish
residents
were taken to extermination camps, while the other half were murdered in
the town
and its vicinity in what were often public acts of mass violence. The
killings
were accomplished with a great deal of local collaboration, especially by
Ukrainian policemen and auxiliaries. In the latter part of the occupation,
the
Polish population was violently ethnically cleansed by Ukrainian nationalist
militants. The lecture will investigate why this community of coexistence was
transformed into a community of genocide; to what extent this was a common
phenomenon at the time in eastern Europe; and what sources can be used to
reconstruct the event and understand the motivations of the protagonists.
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> The J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship,
endowed
by the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust, enables the Center
to bring
a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative
research
about the Holocaust and to disseminate this work to the public. The
scholar-in-residence also leads seminars, lectures at universities in the
United
States, and serves as a resource for the Museum, educators, students, and the
general public.
>
> This lecture has been made possible through the generosity of the J. B. and
Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust.
>
> A reception follows the lecture. To attend this lecture, RSVP online at
ushmm.org/events/shapirolecture2013.
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> SYMPOSIUM
> TUESDAY–WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26–27
> New Research and Resources on Children and the Holocaust
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Ten years after the first conference on this topic convened by the
Center, this
symposium explores the evolution of the study of children and the
Holocaust. These
presentations utilize new Museum resources to interrogate familiar
subjects such
as hiding and rescue, as well as probe new areas of research such as postwar
identity; history and memory; and the challenges and opportunities
presented by
child survivor testimony itself.
>
> Susan Rubin Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of
France
and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will
deliver the
keynote address.
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> For a full schedule, please visit ushmm.org/research/center.
>
> This program is made possible by the Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Fund for
the Study
of the Fate and Rescue of Children.
>
> Reservations are requested. To attend this symposium, RSVP online at
ushmm.org/events/childrensymposium2013.
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>
> Children who have been selected for deportation bid farewell to their
families
through the wire fence of the central prison, during the Gehsperre action
in the
Lodz ghetto, 1942. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Beit Lohamei
Haghetaot
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> 2013 INA LEVINE ANNUAL LECTURE
> WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 7–8:30 p.m.
> Hitler's Path to Power
> Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
>
> Sybille Steinbacher is professor of contemporary history, comparative
dictatorship, violence, and genocide studies at the Institute for
Contemporary
History at the University of Vienna, Austria. She served in the Department of
Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena,
Germany, from 2005 to 2010. She earned her Habilitation in 2010 at the
Faculty of
the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, with venia legendi in modern and
contemporary history, after which she was a visiting professor at the
Fritz Bauer
Institute for the History and Impact of the Holocaust at the Department of
Philosophy and History of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in
Frankfurt am
Main, Germany. Professor Steinbacher is the author of the book Auschwitz: A
History (2006).
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> Professor Steinbacher's lecture will focus on German society and its
relationship
to the Nazi movement during the years of Hitler's path to power. She will
discuss
the hopes and desires that the Nazis set free and ask how antisemitism became
socially acceptable.
>
> The Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Award, endowed by the William S. and
Ina
Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona, enables the Center to bring a
distinguished
scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research on the
Holocaust
and to disseminate this work to the American public.
>
> This lecture has been made possible through the generosity of the
William S. and
Ina Levine Foundation.
>
> A reception follows the lecture. To attend this lecture, RSVP online at
ushmm.org/events/levinelecture2013.
>
>
> A large crowd gathers in front of City Hall to hear the exhortations of
Julius
Streicher during the Beer Hall Putsch. Munich, Germany, 1923. US Holocaust
Memorial Museum, courtesy of William O. McWorkman
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>
> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> Summer Research Assistantships for Graduate Students
> JUNE–AUGUST 2013
> Applications due January 15
>
>
> The Center invites applications for the Summer Graduate Research Assistant
program, designed for students accepted to or currently enrolled in a
master's
degree (MA) program or in their first year of a PhD program. Students who
have
completed more than one year of doctoral work will not be considered. The
objective of this program is to acquaint promising MA and first-year PhD
students
with Holocaust Studies via participation in the broad range of scholarly and
publicly available educational programs offered by the Museum during the
summer
months. Applications are welcome from students in all academic disciplines,
including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, psychology,
sociology, geography, and others.
>
> Projects may include, but are not limited to: (1) conducting research on
Holocaust-specific and Holocaust-relevant courses in the United States,
including
assisting with statistical assessments of the state of the field; (2)
facilitating
projects related to the International Tracing Service digital collection
at the
Museum; and (3) supporting the research, the annotation, the
contextualization,
and the editing required for advancing the Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and
Ghettos, 1933–1945 (vols. 3–6) and the archival source series on
Documenting Life
and Destruction, especially for Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946
(vols.
4–5), and topical volumes, including The Holocaust in Hungary.
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> In addition to each applicant's involvement in these projects,
recipients will be
expected to participate in a weekly training seminar led by Museum staff,
introducing them to key subjects, essential tools, useful methods and
approaches,
as well as career opportunities in Holocaust research. Each recipient will
meet
with a staff mentor who will assign and review weekly tasks and project
goals.
Recipients will be expected to familiarize themselves with relevant topics
through
assigned readings and will be expected to actively engage with Center staff.
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> Assistants will be required to be in residence at the Museum for 12
consecutive
weeks, arriving on June 3, 2013 and departing on August 23, 2013. Awardees
will
receive a stipend of $2,500/month, as well as a stipend to offset the cost of
direct, economy-class travel to and from Washington, DC. Local awardees
will not
receive a travel allowance.
>
> Applications and questions regarding this program should be addressed to
Jo-Ellyn
Decker, Visiting Scholar Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies,
United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW,
Washington, DC
20024-2126; (fax: 202.479.9726; e-mail: SGRA@ushmm.org).
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> For more information and for the full call for applications, please visit
ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/summergra.
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> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> 2013 Annual Seminar for Seminary and Religious Studies Faculty
> The Overlooked Revolution: The Shift in Catholic Teaching on the Jews since
Vatican II
> JUNE 10–14, 2013
> Applications due February 19
>
>
> Designed for professors of all disciplines but particularly seminary and
religious
studies faculty, this seminar will explore the shift in Catholic thought
on the
Jews since 1965 resulting from the promulgation of the Vatican II declaration
Nostra Aetate ("In Our Age"). The statement about the Jews in Nostra Aetate
reversed and refuted ideas that went back to the Church's earliest days
and grew
out of deep theological reflection occasioned by witnessing the Holocaust.
While
the best-known images from Vatican II emphasize the deliberations of
bishops, the
actual intellectual impetus for the revolution came from the margins of the
Church, specifically a small group of converts to Catholicism, many of
them from
Judaism. How did they succeed in making themselves heard in an institution
that,
to many, had seemed impervious to change? This seminar will examine the
primary
influences—historical, theological, and biographical—on this revolution in
Catholic teaching.
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> The seminar will be taught by John Connelly, professor of history at the
University of California at Berkeley. Professor Connelly is the author of
From
Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965
(2012) and Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and
Polish
Higher Education (2000), which won the 2001 George Beer Award of the American
Historical Association; and co-editor of Universities Under Dictatorship
(2005).
His articles have appeared in Minerva, the Journal of Modern History, Slavic
Review, the Nation, the London Review of Books, and Commonweal.
>
> Applications are due on February 19, 2013. For application guidelines,
please
visit
ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/announcement.php?content=religion&year=2013.
>
> Please address inquiries and applications to Dr. Victoria Barnett, staff
director,
Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust, University Programs,
Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies at 202.488.0469 or vbarnett@ushmm.org.
>
> This seminar is made possible by the Hoffberger Family Fund and by
Joseph A. and
Janeal Cannon and Family.
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>
> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> 2013 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty
> Teaching about the Holocaust: Antisemitism, the Final Solution, Jewish
Response,
and Denial
> JUNE 3–14, 2013
> Applications due February 25
>
>
> Designed for college and university faculty from all disciplines who are
teaching
or preparing to teach Holocaust-related courses, this year's seminar will
strengthen participants' backgrounds in Holocaust history and ensure a firm
scholarly grounding for Holocaust courses. The seminar will consist of
presentations on Holocaust history, participant-facilitated discussions on
classroom teaching methods, and roundtable discussions on teaching strategies
across multiple disciplines. Presentations and discussions will include an
overview of Holocaust history and topics as well as new research findings
to be
incorporated into course syllabi.
>
> The seminar will be led by Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham
Distinguished
Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor
Browning specializes in the history of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. His
research has focused on the decision-making process that launched the Final
Solution and the motivation of perpetrators. Among his many influential
monographs
are Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
Poland
(1993); The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish
Policy
(2007); and his most recent work, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi
Slave Labor
Camp (2010).
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> Applications are due on February 25, 2013. For application guidelines,
please
visit ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/seminars.php?content=silberman.
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> Please address inquiries and applications to Dr. Dieter Kuntz, program
officer,
University Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at 202.314.1779 or
dkuntz@ushmm.org.
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> The Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation endowed the Silberman Seminar for
University Faculty in memory of Curt C. and Else Silberman. The Foundation
supports programs in higher education that promote study of the Holocaust,
and
protect and strengthen Jewish values in democracy, human rights, ethical
leadership, and cultural pluralism.
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> EMERGING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
> Albert Kaganovitch, University of Manitoba and 2009–2010 Matthew Family
Fellow
> The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa
> University of Wisconsin Press 2013
>
>
> Corry Guttstadt, University of Hamburg and 2008–09 Charles H. Revson
Foundation
Fellow
> Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust
> Cambridge University Press 2013
>
>
> CENTER-SPONSORED PUBLICATIONS
> ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
> Jewish Responses to Persecution, Volume III, 1941–1942
> By Jürgen Matthäus with Emil Kerenji, Jan Lambertz, and Leah Wolfson
> Forthcoming Spring 2013
> Published by AltaMira Press in association with the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
>
>
> This volume examines Jewish reactions in countries within and beyond the
scope of
Axis rule to the unfolding implementation of the Final Solution in Europe
from the
beginning of 1941 up to July 1942, when selections began in Auschwitz. Topics
include hiding, resistance, rescue, and evasion, as well as deportations and
reflections on the unfolding genocide.
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> CENTER-SPONSORED JOURNAL
> Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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> The Museum's scholarly journal is published three times a year by Oxford
University Press. Under the editorship of American University Professor
Richard D.
Breitman, a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, the journal is the major international,
multidisciplinary forum
for the publication of new scholarship on the Holocaust. Discounted
subscriptions
are available to students and Museum members. For more information, please
visit
hgs.oxfordjournals.org.
>
> Highlights from Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, include:
>
> "Anne Frank in South Africa: Remembering the Holocaust During and After
Apartheid," by Shirli Gilbert
> "Cash for Genocide? The Politics of Memory in the Herero Case for
Reparations," by
David Bargueño
> "Behind the Battle Lines: Italian Atrocities and the Persecution of Arabs,
Berbers, and Jews in North Africa during World War II," by Patrick Bernhard
> "Nazi Propaganda toward French Muslim Prisoners of War," by Raffael Scheck
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> STAFF
> Sara J. Bloomfield, Museum Director
> Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
> Robert M. Ehrenreich, Director, University Programs
>
> PROGRAM INFORMATION
> So we may ensure sufficient space, please register online at the web
address
provided after each program description. For additional information, visit
our
website at ushmm.org/research/center. If you have questions, please e-mail
university_programs@ushmm.org.
>
> All programs are free and, unless otherwise noted, held at the United
States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC
20024-2126. Street parking is limited. Visitors are encouraged to use public
transportation. Metro: Orange or Blue line, Smithsonian Station, Independence
Avenue exit.
>
> Please use the Museum's Raoul Wallenberg Place entrance after 5:30 p.m.
Audio/video recording and flash photography are not permitted.
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