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Genocide Studies September 21, 2023

Przemysłowa Concentration Camp

The Camp, the Children, the Trials

Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert's book Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression …

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Genocide Studies September 20, 2023

Remnants

Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide

Elyse Semerdjian

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and …
Genocide Studies September 7, 2023

Framing the Holocaust

Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941

Valerie Hébert

Hosted by Hallel Yadin
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Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), edited by Valerie Hébert, compiles essays on the meaning of twelve photographs of a terrible …
Jewish Studies September 6, 2023

Ilse Koch on Trial

Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald”

Tomaz Jardim

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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On September 1, 1967, one of the Third Reich's most infamous figures hanged herself in her cell after nearly twenty-four years in prison. Known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald," Ilse …
Jewish Studies September 5, 2023

The Twin Children of the Holocaust

Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive. Photographs from the Twins’ 40th Anniversary Reunion at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Nancy L. Segal

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive (Academic Studies Press, 2023) is an annotated collection of original, informative, and moving photographs of the twins …
German Studies August 30, 2023

Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany

The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation

Mikkel Dack

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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In the wake of the Second World War, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Europe. Between 1945 and 1949 …
Jewish Studies August 29, 2023

Resisters

How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany

Wolf Gruner

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Today I talked to Wolf Gruner about his new book Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany (Yale UP, 2023). Drawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives …
Jewish Studies August 29, 2023

Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece

Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity

Pothiti Hantzaroula

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Today I talked to Pothiti Hantzaroula about her book Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity (Routledge, 2020). Age, generation, and geographic context all influenced postwar Jewish identities, according …
Eastern European Studies August 25, 2023

No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe

Vanishing Others

Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar, and Malgorzata Lukianow

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
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Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar, and Malgorzata Lukianow's edited volume No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation …
Genocide Studies August 15, 2023

Genocidal Conscription

Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War

Christopher Harrison

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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Christopher Harrison's book Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War (Lexington Books, 2023) examines how some states have employed mandatory military service as a tool to capture and …
African Studies August 14, 2023

Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War

Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Today I talked to Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan about their new book Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War (Oxford UP, 2023) The ongoing war and consequent famine in the Ethiopian province of Tigray …
Anthropology August 10, 2023

Subcontractors of Guilt

Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany

Esra Özyürek

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
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At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education …
German Studies August 8, 2023

Blood and Diamonds

Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa

Steven Press

Hosted by Jill Massino
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Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds" from jewelry shops and department stores. But if the problem of conflict diamonds--gems extracted from war zones--has only recently …
Recall This Book August 3, 2023

Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

Novel Dialogue Crossover

Joshua Cohen

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
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In this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Eugene Sheppard speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning …
Genocide Studies July 31, 2023

Jasenovac Concentration Camp

An Unfinished Past

Stipe Odak, Danijela Lucic, and Andriana Kuznar

Hosted by Kelly McFall
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In Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past (Routledge, 2023), Kuznar, Lucic and Odak provide a wide-ranging collection of essays about the memory of and debates  around the Jasenovac Concentration Camp. Initially one of …
Genocide Studies July 21, 2023

In Defense of Christian Hungary

Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944

Paul Hanebrink

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink shows how Hungarian nationalists redefined Hungary--a …
Genocide Studies July 19, 2023

Intimate Violence

Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust

Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particularly brutal wave of violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly …
Jewish Studies July 15, 2023

Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust

Ambiguous Refuge

Judith Roumani

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To the east of the province, the Jews of …
Genocide Studies July 14, 2023

Narratives of Mass Atrocity

Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath

Sarah Federman and Ronald Niezen

Hosted by Christopher Harrison
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Individuals can assume—and be assigned—multiple roles throughout a conflict: perpetrators can be victims, and vice versa; heroes can be reassessed as complicit and compromised. However, accepting this more accurate representation …
Eastern European Studies July 9, 2023

Surviving Katyn

Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

Jane Rogoyska

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that …