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Eastern European Studies
August 25, 2020
Rescue the Surviving Souls
The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 17th Century
Adam Teller
Hosted by Robin Buller
A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of Jews fled their homes, or were captured and …
European Studies
August 14, 2020
Hitler’s Jewish Refugees
Hope and Anxiety in Portugal
Marion Kaplan
Hosted by Robin Buller
Marion Kaplan's riveting book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press) describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived …
Eastern European Studies
June 8, 2020
Khurbm 1914-1922
Prelude to the Holocaust
Alexander Gendler
Hosted by Robin Buller
The murder of two-thirds of European Jews, referred to by many as the Holocaust, did not begin June 22, 1941, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union, or September …
American Studies
January 16, 2020
Cities of Refuge
German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler
Hosted by Robin Buller
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tolerant countries. Cities of Refuge: German Jews in …
French Studies
January 9, 2020
Homes Away from Home
Jewish Belonging in 20th-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg
Sarah Wobick-Segev
Hosted by Robin Buller
In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape …
European Studies
September 16, 2019
State, Nationalism, and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece
Evdoxios Doxiadis
Hosted by Robin Buller
How did minorities fit into the new Greek state during the country’s transition from imperial rule to national sovereignty? How did the relationship between Greece and its Jewish minorities, in …
American Studies
October 30, 2018
World War I and the Jews
Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
Marsha L. Rozenblit and Jonathan Karp, eds.
Hosted by Robin Buller
How was Jewish life affected by the First World War? How did Jews around the world understand, engage with, and influence the Great War and surrounding events? And why has …
European Studies
October 25, 2018
Stealing Home
Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947
Shannon Fogg
Hosted by Robin Buller
While the history of the Second World War and Jewish persecution in France has been widely studied, the return of survivors in the aftermath of deportation and genocide has not …
Literary Studies
August 24, 2018
The Beginnings of Ladino Literature
Moses Almosnino and His Readers
Olga Borovaya
Hosted by Robin Buller
When did Ladino literature emerge? According to Dr. Olga Borovaya, author of The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and his Readers (Indiana University Press, 2017), the history of Ladino …
Eastern European Studies
May 24, 2018
Pioneers and Partisans
An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia
Anika Walke
Hosted by Robin Buller
How did Soviet Jews respond to the Holocaust and the devastating transformations that accompanied persecution? How was the Holocaust experienced, survived, and remembered by Jewish youth living in Soviet territory …
European Studies
May 21, 2018
Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
Shira Klein
Hosted by Robin Buller
What was Italy’s role in the Holocaust? Why is it that Italy is known as the Axis power that was benevolent to Jews, despite a scholarly consensus that many Italians …
Film
March 29, 2018
Passing Illusions
Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
Kerry Wallach
Hosted by Robin Buller
What did it mean to be perceived as Jewish or non-Jewish in Weimar Germany? How, in an age of growing antisemitism, was Jewishness revealed, or made invisible? Kerry Wallach of …