https://youtu.be/Awm32jnHjfw We remain horrified by the deeds of those who perpetrated the Holocaust but perhaps more mystified than ever. The long-held consensus among historians that the perpetrators were “ordinary men” does not satisfy, and not just because we now know more about the role of female auxiliaries. We are not sure what “ordinary” demarcates: Not...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 • 314 Royce • 2 PM Aomar Boum (UCLA) Moderator: Todd Presner (UCLA) Undesirables A Holocaust Journey to North Africa Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to...
Tuesday, January 31, 2022 • 314 Royce • 4 PM Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) & Aomar Boum (UCLA) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950 The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity...
Thursday, February 2, 2023 • Zoom Live • 9 AM PST New Approaches to Italian Fascism and Jewish Histories Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies To mark the 100th anniversary of the Fascist seizure of power, an event known as The March on Rome and which produced the first Fascist government and initiated the 23-year...