Screening and Discussion: Filming the Gulag with Kristian Feigelson moderated by Olga Gershenson
Herter 231
5:00 pm
International Holocaust Memorial Day Event 2023
ZOOM Webinar
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Join us on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at 4:00PM (EDT), for an International Holocaust Memorial Day Event: A conversation between Barry Trachtenberg and Mindl Cohen on Trachtenberg’s The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. This event will be held via ZOOM Webinar, registration is required to attend. Register in advanced here. For more information, visit our website at www.umass.edu/ihgms/ or contact us at ihgms@umass.edu.
Antisemitism in the United States, a roundtable discussion
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Join us on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 12:00PM (EDT) for a special webinar event: Antisemitism in the United States, a roundtable discussion with Professor Peter Beinart, Professor Lila Corwin Berman, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, moderated by Alon Confino. This event will be held via ZOOM Webinar, registration is required to attend. Register in advance here. For more information, visit our website at www.umass.edu/ihgms/ or contact us at ihgms@umass.edu.
Special Event: Antisemitism in the United States, a roundtable discussion
2:34 pm
A conversation with Yechiel Weizman on his book "Unsettled Heritage"
ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 1:00PM (ET) | 20:00 (Jerusalem)
A conversation with Yechiel Weizman on his book
Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland’s Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (Ithaca, 2022)
The Legacy of Ruth Klüger – Thirty Years after 'Weiter Leben'
758 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01002
6:30 pm to 6:00 pm
On the occasion of the publication of a new volume of essays The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century (edited by Mark H. Gelber, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), a one-day International Symposium will honor the memory of Ruth Klüger -- Holocaust survivor, scholar, teacher, author, essayist, poet, and feminist. Ruth Klüger (1931 – 2020) passed away on October 5, 2020 in the U.S. Born in Vienna and deported to Theresienstadt as a child, she survived Auschwitz and the Holocaust together with her mother. After living in Germany for a short time after the War, she immigrated to New York.
For more information, contact the co-organizer Jonathan Skolnik at jskolnik@german.umass.edu.
"Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State" with Roni Mikel-Arieli
ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
A conversation with Roni Mikel-Arieli on her book
Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy, 1948-1994 (Berlin, 2022)
The Legacy of Jules Chametzky
Old Chapel, UMass Amherst
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Friday, October 7, from 9:00am-5:00pm
(at the Old Chapel of UMass Amherst)
The Legacy of Jules Chametzky: Honoring the Intellect, Fostering Justice and Equality
A conversation with Jeffrey Veidlinger on his book "In the Midst of Civilized Europe"
ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Thursday, September 22, 2022, 1:00PM (ET) | 20:00 (Jerusalem)
A conversation with Jeffrey Veidlinger on his book
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (New York, 2021)
Defining Antisemitism between History and Politics - International Workshop
Van Leer Institute Jerusalem
12:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Defining Antisemitism between History and Politics, an International Workshop hosted by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, will be held on May 30th – June 1st, 2022. This workshop is co-sponsored by the IHGMS of UMass Amherst, among others.
"Encounters": A conversation with Magda Teter on her book "Blood Libel"
Online via ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
A conversation with Magda Teter on her book Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth
"We know very well, yet Nevertheless."
ILC S131
4:30 pm
Bad Fences: Short films by young Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers
ILC S131
4:00 pm
A screening and a conversation with the film producer Yael Perlov moderated by Professor Olga Gershenson
"Encounters": A conversation with Claudrena Harold
Online via ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
April 5, 2022, 1:00PM (EDT) / 20:00 (Israel time)
A conversation with Claudrena Harold on her book When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
"The War in Ukraine: Experiences and Memories"
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Avner Shavit | The Invisible War: Why Did the Occupation Vanish from the Israeli Screens
Herter Hall 601
4:30 pm
A month ago, Tantura, a new Israeli documentary, made waves at the Sundance Film Festival, exposing war crimes committed by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the ensuing cover up. One would expect the film to make headlines in Israel, but it didn’t. Moreover, no national public fund wanted to be involved with the production. In fact, almost no contemporary Israeli film deals with the conflict and the occupation; Tantura is the exception that confirms the rule. Israeli cinema used to be political, so what happened? When and why did the filmmakers and the public lose touch with reality? How and why did the local cinema become a world champion in repression?
Online International Workshop by Stockton University, March 24-27, 2022
8:00 am to 8:00 pm
International workshop to mark 70 years since the General Assembly
of the UN adopted the Refugee Convention, March 25-27, 2022 (via Zoom)
International Workshop - March 25-27, 2022 (via Zoom)
4:33 pm
International workshop to mark 70 years since the General Assembly
of the UN adopted the Refugee Convention, March 25-27, 2022 (via Zoom)
"Encounters": A Conversation with Raef Zreik
Online via ZOOM Webinar
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
March 8, 2022, 1:00PM (EST) / 20:00 (Israel time)
A Conversation with Raef Zreik on the Arab intellectuals’ letter condemning antisemitism and rejecting the IHRA working definition of antisemitism
International Holocaust Remembrance Day event: "Laughter After"
Online via ZOOM Webinar
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Join us on Thursday, January 27th, 2022, at 5:00PM (EST) for an International Holocaust Remembrance Day Event: A Conversation with Avinoam Patt and Anna Shternshis on Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (edited by David Slucki, Gabriel Finder, and Avinoam Patt).
