Professor Joanna B. Michlic is lecturer in Gender Studies, Bristol University, UK and Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust, Brandeis University. Her talk,The Trajectories of Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Post-communist Europe, explores the two major stages of the process of restoration of memory of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe.
Professor John-Paul Himka is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta. His talk, The Historiography on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe: How It Has Been Developing, uses the Ukrainian case as the primary example, and looks at the legacy of communism and the Cold War, the changes in the evaluation and accessibility of sources, the influence and transplantation of diaspora narratives, and the crucial breakthrough represented by Jan Gross's Neighbors in considering Holocaust historiography in the region.
Professor Gennady Estraikh, Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, NYU Skirball Center for Hebrew and Judaic Studies will moderate the discussion.
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