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SUMMARY:Rescheduled Virtual Book Launch: The Last Ghetto – An Everyday History of Theresienstadt
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Professor Dan Stone\nWe were delighted to launch Dr Anna Hájková’s book The Last Ghetto as part of the new Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership. \n \nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of the Second World War. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, \nAnna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \nAbout the speakers:\nDr Anna Hájková\nDr Hájková is Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick. She regularly contributes to mass media in English\, German\, and Czech in the publications Haaretz\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Tablet\, and Tagesspiegel. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. \nProfessor Dan Stone\nProfessor Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Sephardi Holocaust Histories: Families Adrift
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Abrevaya Stein\, François Matarasso in conversation with Paris Chronakis. \n \nAs part of its Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library was delighted to host a panel discussion of new works that explore Sephardi family microhistories of the Holocaust\, led by Dr Paris Chronakis. An expert on the history and memory of Greek Jewry\, Chronakis lead Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and François Matarasso in conversation. Stein spoke about her book based on the copious Levy family papers\, which helped chronicle Sephardi Jewish life across and beyond the Ottoman Empire\, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century (2020)\, and Matarasso\, discussed his father’s and grandfather’s memoirs\, published in Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica\, 1941-44 (2020). \nAbout the speakers:\nParis Chronakis is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway\, University of London having previously taught at Brown University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches and researches on the history and memory of the Modern Mediterranean and his work explores questions of transition from empire to nation-state by bringing together the entangled histories of Jews\, Christians and Muslims from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have expanded to post-imperial urban identities\, Balkan War refugees\, Zionism and anti-Zionism in interwar Europe\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry\, and digital Holocaust Studies. Paris was a member of the scientific committee developing the ‘Database of Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies’ and is on the editorial board of the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Moderne et Contemporain. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is a historian\, writer and educator whose work has reshaped our understanding of Jewish history. Her commitment to research is matched by her love of teaching. At UCLA\, she is Professor of History\, the Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, as well as the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books\, including Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers\, Jews\, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. Sarah has received many awards including the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two National Jewish Book Awards and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. \nFrançois Matarasso is a writer\, researcher and consultant with 40 years’ experience in community-based arts development. He specialises in practice-led research\, especially on the impact of culture\, and in organisational support across the cultural sector. He has worked for international agencies\, national and local governments\, foundations and cultural organisations in some 30 countries. His work has been widely published and translated. His father and grandfather’s accounts have been published in Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica\, 1941-44. \nWatch back now:\n \nHosted by The Wiener Holocaust Library in partnership with the Hellenic Institute\, Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies and Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-sephardi-holocaust-histories-families-adrift/
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Drunk on Genocide - Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
DESCRIPTION:Professor Edward Westermann in conversation with Professor Dan Stone. \nIn Drunk on Genocide\, Edward B. Westermann reveals how\, over the course of the Third Reich\, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps\, ghettos\, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated “performative masculinity\,” expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file\, celebrating at the gravesites of their victims. Westermann argues that\, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers\, they were\, in fact\, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. \nDrunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity\, drinking ritual\, sexual violence\, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset\, motivation\, and mentality of killers as they prepared for\, and participated in\, mass extermination. \nAbout the speakers:\nEdward B. Westermann is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio\, a Commissioner on the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission\, and author\, most recently\, of Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars. His areas of expertise include modern European history\, the Holocaust\, and war and society. \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. His research interests include the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-drunk-on-genocide-alcohol-and-mass-murder-in-nazi-germ/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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