Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Nadege Ragaru and Victoria Baena A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed—but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews...
CfA: Ego-Documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust: Revealing Personal Voices
deadline 12.03.2018 Ego-Documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust: Revealing Personal Voices Sunday-Thursday, June 3-7, 2018, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are...
The Holocaust in the Borderlands: Interethnic Relations and the Dynamics of Violence in Occupied Eastern Europe
Munich, 7-9 February 2018 Program: Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17.00-18.00: Registration (Senatssaal LMU) 18.00-20.30: Opening Lecture (Senatssaal LMU) followed by wine reception Doris Bergen (Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto): Saving Christianity, Killing Jews: German Religious Campaigns and the Holocaust in the Borderlands Greetings, introduction and moderation: Frank Bajohr...
CfP: Southeastern European Jewish History and Culture at the XITH EAJS Congress
Krakow, Poland 15-19 July 2018 Deadline : 15 November 2017 The history and cultural heritage of Jews living in the territories of Southeastern Europe is an understudied area in both Jewish and European Studies. Although this fascinating multi-ethnic and -religious region is located at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Central and Eastern European World, part of the Ottoman Empire, and including Ashkenazi-Sephardi fault line, it...
Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania
Shivaun Woolfson Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania People, Places and Objects Once regarded as a vibrant centre of intellectual, cultural and spiritual Jewish life, Lithuania was home to 240,000 Jews prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941. By war’s end, less than 20,000 remained. Today, approximately 4,000 Jews reside there, among them 108 survivors from the camps and ghettos and a further 70 from the Partisans and Red Army....
