Speakers
Sunday, April 10th beginning at 1:00 PM • Fowler Hall, Stewart Center, Purdue University
Daniel Mendelsohn
Lost Between Memory & History: Writing the Holocaust for the Next Generation
2016 Rabbi Gedalyah Engel Lecturer
Author and Professor of Humanities, Bard College
Biography
Daniel Mendelsohn, the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, is an award-winning author, critic, and translator. His essays, reviews, and articles appear in many publications—most frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Harpers, for which he contributes a column about culture. He has also been a columnist for the New York Times Book Review and for New York magazine, where he was the weekly book critic. His books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award in the United States and the Prix Médicis in France, among many other honors.
Author's Website
Publisher's Website: The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million
New Zealand Listener: Those four words by Diana Wichtel
Amazon: Books by Daniel Mendelsohn
Günther Jikeli
The Rise of Antisemitism in Europe Among Young Muslim Males
Assistant Professor, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University.
Biography
Günther Jikeli, a historian and sociologist of modern Europe, is an assistant professor and the Justin M. Druck Family Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism in the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. In 2013, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and Tel Aviv University awarded Dr. Jikeli the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies.
Günther Jikeli is a historian and sociologist of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of antisemitism. He has been puzzled by highly irrational antisemitic beliefs and has tried to come to an understanding of such ways of thinking.
His recent book on European Muslim antisemitism looks into patterns of argumentations: how do people – young Muslims in this case – try to justify negative views of Jews? The book is the result of sociological research from a de-essentializing perspective.
Faculty Website
Publisher's Website:
European Muslim Antisemitism
Jewish Ledger: Conversation with Prof. Günther Jikeli
Publisher's Website:
Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities
Joyce Field
How to Conduct Jewish Genealogical Research
Jewish Genealogy Reseacher
Biography
Joyce Field was JewishGen’s vice president for research for almost a decade. During her tenure with JewishGen she was responsible for three major projects: the Yizkor Book Translation Project, the Holocaust Database, and the Online Worldwide Burial Registry. All three continue to flourish.
In 2002, the Yizkor Book Project received the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy Award.
In 2009, the IAJGS awarded her a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Joyce’s talk will focus primarily on these JewishGen projects as resources for genealogical research and learning about our heritage.
JewishGen Website
JewishGen: Development of the Yizkor Book Project
Resources for Jewish Genealogy Research (pdf)
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