Sixty Years Fighting Oblivion
The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan In a collection of essays published by Yad Vashem in 2009, David Bankier and Dan Michman devote one chapter to the simultaneous…
Academia
Michele Sarfatti in Germany
Historian René Moehrle’s reviews Sarfatti’s classic for the German press. When it first appeared in Italian, in 2000, Michele Sarfatti’s Gli ebrei nell’Italia Fascista. Vicende, identità, persecuzione (Einaudi) was instantly…
Two Centers for Sephardic Studies
The Society for Sefardic Studies was established was established in 2009. It is affiliated to the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of the Jewish Communities in the East and to…
USHMM Felloship
Approaching Deadline: 2015-2016 Fellowship- Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: 2015–16 FELLOWSHIPS, link Deadline for Applications: November 30, 2014 The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies awards fellowships…
Our Life Was Divided
“Our Life Was Divided in Many Facets”1: Anna Foa Yona, an Anti-Fascist Jewish Refugee in Wartime United States Introduction Migration studies have dismissed the somewhat uncritical and romantic celebration of…
Max Ascoli
How Special Collections archival holdings tell the story of our time The Max Ascoli Archive Archivio del Senato Max Ascoli (1898-1978) created The Reporter in 1949, a magazine that became…
USHMM Summer Research Workshops
USHMM Summer Research Workshops The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from Workshop Coordinator(s) to conduct two-week research workshops…
Italy and the Second World War
Call for Papers, “Italy and the Second World War” (Brill Publishing) (Deadline: 31 June 2015) This volume is a collection of essays that focus on the Italian experience of war…
Caucus on Italian-Jewish Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS – AAIS Caucus on Italian-Jewish Studies AAIS Annual Meeting in Boulder, CO (March 26-28, 2015) 1. Nazione ebrea e nuova Italia. Was the project of Italian statehood…
Beyond Camps
Conference: Beyond Camps and Forced Labor Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution Fifth international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at Imperial War Museum…