| Start Date: | 12/2/2014 | Start Time: | 5:00 PM |
| End Date: | 12/2/2014 | End Time: | 6:30 PM |
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Event Description
In this panel discussion, members of the Judaic Studies Faculty and Staff Committee will explore how the continuity of East European Jewish culture destroyed during the Holocaust has become a part of their personal lives and identities.
By the end of the nineteenth century, European Jewry constituted 90% of world Jewry. A complex way of life had evolved over a period of a thousand years, with Yiddish language and culture at its center. During World War II, Nazi Germany, in its war against the Jews, decimated this strongest branch of Jewry that was centered in Eastern Europe.
The panel will showcase a few members of the Judaic Studies Program’s Faculty and Staff Committee. From the vantage of diverse perspectives, participants will explore how the continuity of East European Jewish culture destroyed during the Holocaust has become a part of their personal lives and identities.
Participants:
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Renée Weiss Chase (Fashion Design, Westphal)
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Itzhak Fischer, PhD (Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medicine)
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Peter Lewin, PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
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Neal Orkin, JD (Legal Studies, LeBow)
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William Rosenberg, PhD (History and Politics, CoAS)
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Eva Thury, PhD (English and Philosophy, CoAS)
Moderator:
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Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD (Judaic Studies, CoAS)
This program is part of a global classroom organized by Professor Peltz, pairing his Anthropology and Judaic Studies course, Reconstructing History After Genocide, with the activity of colleagues and students at Brama Grodzka and the Maria Curie-Sladowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Support for this event comes from the Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation, the Milton and Miriam Handler Foundation, the Yiddish Studies Fund, and the Friends of Judaic Studies. Info: Kathy.carll@drexel.edu, 215-895-6388. |
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Location:
Bossone Research Center, Mitchell Auditorium, 3140 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
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