Message from the Director
Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week
04/02/2019 - 04/04/2019
Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week 2019 >>
Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week 2019 will take place April 2-4. Featured events include the launch of the digital archive, Gideon Klein presentation, Morton Lecture, survivor lecture commemorating the 80th anniversary of the kindertransport, a special lecture on genocide, and a student-led commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Details will be forthcoming…
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PROGRAMS OF STUDY
STUDENT RESEARCH
JEWISH STUDIES FACULTY
DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS: ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Faculty Spotlight
FACULTY PROFILE: Natalie Bormann
Growing up in Langenberg, Germany, in the 1980s and 1990s, Natalie Bormann was occasionally asked if she was related to Martin Bormann. One of the most powerful Nazi party officials and Hitler’s private secretary, Martin Bormann was tried in absentia at the Nuremberg trials, having disappeared shortly after Hitler’s death.
Student Spotlight
KATHRYN BLOOM
After receiving a masters in English from the University of Toronto in 1968, Kathryn Bloom decided to a take a few years off before pursuing her PhD. A few years turned into four decades and a successful career in public relations, not in the academy. “Life intervened,” Bloom says now.