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SUMMARY:In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union
DESCRIPTION:The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated. Jewish authors from Ukraine\, Lithuania\, Russia\, and Belarus\, some writing in Yiddish and others in Russian\, tell the stories of ordinary people living on after the massive devastation of the Holocaust on Soviet territory\, depicting memories\, conflicts\, love\, and loss. These are not stories only about how people died\, but how they continued to live: an entire family legacy is reduced to a single tea cup\, the now raspy voice of a telephone that once never stopped ringing\, and a train timetable that lists key places of Jewish life largely destroyed but still vital. Translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav\, these stories provide new perspectives on questions fundamental to literature of the Holocaust and legacies of other genocides and mass violence. \nSasha Senderovich is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and of International Studies at the University of Washington. With Harriet Murav\, he translated David Bergelson’s Judgment: A Novel (2017). He is the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (2022). Harriet Murav is Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent books are David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity (2019) and As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (2024). \nTuesday\, April 21\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nIn the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union \nSasha Senderovich (University of Washington\, Seattle) and\nHarriet Murav (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)\nModerators: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) & Lilya Kaganovsky (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies \nLecture made possible by The 1939 Society\, a division of Holocaust Museum Los Angeles \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-short-fiction-by-jewish-writers-from-the-soviet-union/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies
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SUMMARY:Vanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City – Frances Tanzer
DESCRIPTION:Frances Tanzer will discuss her new book\, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press)\, which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period: a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that has relied on antisemitism\, philosemitism\, and a related discourse of Jewish presence and absence. As she shows\, antisemitism and philosemitism were not contradictory forces in post-Nazi Austrian culture. They were deeply interconnected aspirations in a city where nostalgia for the past dominated cultural reconstruction efforts and supported seemingly contradictory impulses. Philosemitism was much more than a simple inversion of antisemitism—instead\, Tanzer argues\, philosemitism defined Vienna in the era of postwar reconstruction. Vanishing Vienna uncovers a rarely discussed phenomenon of the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust—a society that consumes\, redefines\, and bestows symbolic meaning on the victims in their absence. \nFrances Tanzer is the Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Culture at Clark University in Massachusetts and associate professor of history. Her book Vanishing Vienna: Philosemitism\, Modernism\, and Jews in a Postwar City was published with University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024. She has received support for her research from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, the Remarque Institute at NYU\, and others. Her new project is entitled: Klezmer Dynasty: An Intimate History of Modern Jewish Culture\, 1880-2019. \nThursday\, February 19\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nVanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City \nFrances Tanzer (Clark University)\nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/vanishing-vienna-modernism-philosemitism-and-jews-in-a-postwar-city-frances-tanzer/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Prelude to the Holocaust: The Anti-Jewish Pogroms of Summer 1941 – Jeffrey Kopstein
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines a particularly brutal wave a violence that occurred across hundreds of predominantly Polish and Ukrainian communities in the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The dominant explanations for pogrom violence center around three most frequently cited causes: endemic antisemitism in Eastern European societies\, a desire for revenge for alleged Jewish involvement in Soviet crimes during the occupation of 1939–1941\, and opportunistic appropriation of Jewish property. But a difficult question needs to be posed: why did pogroms occur in some places and not in others? Situating pogroms within the long history of local intercommunal relations sheds light on the sources of mass ethnic violence and the ways in which such gruesome acts might be avoided. \nJeffrey Kopstein is Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California\, Irvine. In his research\, Professor Kopstein focuses on interethnic violence\, voting patterns of minority groups\, antisemitism\, and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society. These interests are central topics in his latest books\, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press\, 2018)\, Politics\, Memory\, Violence: The New Social Science of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press\, 2023)\, and The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future (Polity\, 2024). Professor Kopstein’s writings also appear in outlets like The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Washington Post. \n  \nTuesday\, January 27\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nPrelude to the Holocaust: The Anti-Jewish Pogroms of Summer 1941 \nJeffrey Kopstein (UCI)\nModerator: Jared McBride (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/prelude-to-the-holocaust-the-anti-jewish-pogroms-of-summer-1941-jeffrey-kopstein/
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SUMMARY:Saving our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust – Rachel Deblinger
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on previously unexamined archives and postwar cultural materials\, Saving Our Survivors explores how American Jews constructed meaning out of devastation—and how humanitarian aid became intertwined with public memory. The book uncovers how American Jewish communities first came to learn about and respond to the Holocaust through communal campaigns\, radio broadcasts\, speeches\, short films\, and urgent calls to action. Rachel Deblinger highlights the messy\, diffuse\, and contested nature of memory construction in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and raises larger questions about how historical tragedies are narrated in moments of crisis. \nRachel Deblinger is the author of Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews learned about the Holocaust (2025\, Indiana University Press). Her research focuses on Holocaust memory in America\, media technology\, and the intersection of philanthropy and representation. Deblinger is also the Director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) at the UCLA Library\, a granting program that funds the digitization and preservation of at-risk cultural heritage materials from around the world. MEAP grants facilitate archival documentation and open access to diverse global collections. \n \nTuesday\, November 18\, 2025 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nSaving our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the Holocaust \nRachel Deblinger (UCLA) \nThe 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies\nThe Alan D. Leve Program for Public History \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/saving-our-survivors-how-american-jews-learned-about-the-holocaust-rachel-deblinger/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies,Alan D. Leve Program for Public History
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