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Genocide Studies
Genocide Studies September 22, 2021

Comrades Betrayed

Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler

Michael Geheran

Hosted by Kelly McFall
What claims could Jewish veterans make on the Nazi state by virtue of their having fought for Germany?  How often did Germans treat Jewish veterans differently from Jewish men without …

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Genocide Studies August 26, 2021

The Crime Without a Name

Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America

Barrett Holmes Pitner

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name:  Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America (Counterpoint …
Genocide Studies August 19, 2021

The Compromise of Return

Viennese Jews After the Holocaust

Elizabeth Anthony

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Most often our engagement with the Holocaust is a process of wrestling with the absence of presence and the presence of absence.  This is right and important and necessary. But Elizabeth …
Eastern European Studies August 11, 2021

Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe

The Deluge of 1919

Eliza Ablovatski

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts. Dramatic events since the end of …
Political Science July 1, 2021

The Humanity of Universal Crime

Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought

Sinja Graf

Hosted by Lilly Goren
We often hear or read the phrase “crimes against humanity” when we learn about the Holocaust, or genocide in places like Rwanda or Serbia. And just as often, we don’t …
Genocide Studies June 30, 2021

It Can Happen Here

White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US

Alexander Laban Hinton

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
If many people were shocked by Donald Trump’s 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Blood and Soil” …
Genocide Studies June 10, 2021

Drunk on Genocide

Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

Edward B. Westermann

Hosted by Kelly McFall
The title of Edward Westermann's new book, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (Cornell University Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021) …
Genocide Studies June 9, 2021

A Sad Fiasco

Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908

Jonas Kreienbaum

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Holocaust and Genocide historians have spent much time and effort recently considering the connections between the experiences and ideas of colonialism and subsequent mass atrocity violence.  Jonas Kreienbaum's recent book …
Eastern European Studies May 31, 2021

Conscious History

Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust

Natalia Aleksiun

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Thoroughly researched, Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2021) highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar …
Genocide Studies May 28, 2021

Warsaw Ghetto Police

The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation

Katarzyna Person

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation (Cornell University Press/US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021) , Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates …
Genocide Studies May 21, 2021

The Complexity of Evil

Perpetration and Genocide

Timothy Williams

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Why do people participate in genocide? In The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide (Rutgers UP, 2020), Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also …
Genocide Studies May 14, 2021

The Problems of Genocide

Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression

A. Dirk Moses

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the …
African Studies May 12, 2021

Becoming Rwandan

Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen

S. Garnett Russell

Hosted by Susan Thomson
In Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen (Rutgers UP, 2020), S. Garnett Russell argues that although the Rwandan government makes use of global discourses in national policy documents …
Genocide Studies April 30, 2021

Dance on the Razor's Edge

Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos

Svenja Bethke

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder …
Law April 12, 2021

Human Dignity in Context

Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, and Christoph Möllers

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the center of legal discourse on a global level. In 1949, Germany incorporated the concept …
General History April 6, 2021

Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine

Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers

Dina Porat

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers (Pardes, 2019) is a book by Israeli historian Dina Porat on Nakam, a small group of Holocaust survivors …
Genocide Studies March 22, 2021

The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

Laura Robson

Hosted by Kelly McFall
My students are generally 19 or 20 or 21. They have never known the Middle East without American boots on the ground. They have never turned on the news and …
Eastern European Studies March 22, 2021

Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood

A Minority's Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–1945

R. Chris Davis

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Amid the rising nationalism and racial politics that culminated in World War II, European countries wishing to purify their nations often forced unwanted populations to migrate. The targeted minorities had …
Jewish Studies March 18, 2021

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices

Jeffrey Shandler

Hosted by Robin Buller
How do technological advances and changing archival practices alter historical memory? In what ways have developments in the preservation and dissemination of historical material already impacted how scholars and the …
African Studies March 16, 2021

Do Not Disturb

The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

Michela Wrong

Hosted by Susan Thomson
Michela Wrong’s Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad (PublicAffairs, 2021) is a glorious piece of journalism. It tells the story of Rwanda’s former …