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Letters from the Abyss: Jewish Travelogues on Jewish Life in Nazi Germany in the Yiddish Press of Warsaw

March 31, 2022

Anne-Christin Klotz Between 1933 and 1939, several dozen journalists writing for the Yiddish press in Poland traveled to Nazi Germany to cover political developments and Jewish life in the Third Reich from an investigative, ethnographic and uniquely Eastern European-Jewish point of view. Their personal and...

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“Guides who Helped Jews Flee from France to Spain across the Pyrenees: 1940-1944”

March 3, 2022

Jacqueline Adams Persecution caused thousands of Jews from Germany and German-occupied countries to seek refuge in France, or to travel through France on their way out of Europe, between 1933 and 1944. After Germany occupied a large part of France in June 1940, both the German administration governing the Occupied Zone and the French Vichy government in the Unoccupied Zone began...

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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (Annual Pell Endowed Lecture)

April 25, 2022

Spring 2022 Pell Lecture.

This program is presented with the generous support of the Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Jewish Studies, and is a part of the Berkeley Antisemitism Education...

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Beyond the Temple: Jewish Material Identity from the Hasmoneans to Herod

January 25, 2023

Andrea M. Berlin When did Jews first begin using material goods to communicate a religious identity? Why did such a practice arise, and what were its social and political consequences? In this lecture, Andrea Berlin couples archaeological remains with historical testimony to address these questions. The story begins in the second century BCE, with the rise...

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Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel

March 14, 2023

Susan Kahn in conversation with Thomas Laqueur

Rudolphina Menzel was a Viennese-born, Jewish scientist whose pioneering research on canine psychology, development, and behavior fundamentally shaped the ways dogs came to be trained, cared for, and understood. Between the two world wars, Menzel was...