Virtual Events - Kupferberg Holocaust Center
We're excited to continue our partnership with the Kupferberg Holocaust Center this year by bringing a range of online programs to the Pacific Northwest.
Eve Adams: Daring Life, Dangerous Times
In 1912, Chawa Złoczower, a Jewish Polish immigrant made her way to the US and soon helped publicize the anarchist speeches of Emma Goldman. Later, Złoczower took the name Eve Adams, and toured America, getting paid to sell radical leftist magazines. In 1925 she published a unique, pioneering book, Lesbian Love, containing stories of women she had met. Her activism drew the ire of US FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, ultimately leading to Adams’ deportation back to Poland and tragic murder in Auschwitz. Join Jonathan Ned Katz, historian and author of the 2021 biography, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, for a conversation about Adams’ adventurous life, his work to uncover her story as a vibrant resistor, and what it means in today’s troubled social world.
Women’s Stories: Holocaust Histories in the Museum
Museums act as conduits of historical information to the public. As such, these institutions are responsible for considering their role in creating and perpetuating historical narratives. Using gender as a category of historical analysis reveals how women are underrepresented within memorial spaces dedicated to the Holocaust. While individual women may be visibly depicted in photos and conveyed through survivor testimonies, exhibits at many large museums often miss the overarching narrative of women’s collective experiences. Join Dr. Katie Chaka-Parks, Director of Education at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, for discussion about how these representations and omissions inform our understanding of the memory and history of the Holocaust.
Flight and Metamorphosis: Translations of Nelly Sachs by Joshua Weiner
Join us for a special reading with renowned poet Joshua Weiner who will discuss his translations of Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs, the German-Swedish poet, playwright, and Holocaust survivor. Weiner reveals the depth, pathos, and spiritual longing in Sach’s work, Flight and Metamorphosis, and why it remains equally vital and imperative for our time.
Yizkor Books: Narratives of Memory and Resilience of a Lost Jewish World
Written primarily by Holocaust survivors, yizkor books were created to memorialize the Jewish towns—known as shtetls, in Yiddish—once scattered across Eastern Europe. Yizkor books documented both the day-to-day culture that was characteristic of these communities, and their destruction during World War II. Join Jane Ziegelman, author of Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World, for a discussion about the history and substance of these remarkable books, as both testaments to the power of remembering and to the resilience of a people who refused to be forgotten.
Anti-Jewish Folklore and the Rise of Antisemitism Before, During and After the Holocaust
The first written account of an anti-Jewish folktale is a tale of English or German origin, published in 1228. From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, these folktales helped fuel the anti-Jewish prejudice prevalent within and beyond Western society. By the nineteenth century, the tales assisted in paving the way for anti-Judaism to transition into antisemitism; subsequently, the Nazis were then able to capitalize on these stories as objects of antisemitic propaganda. Join Dr. Sofia Lago, Lecturer of English for Academic Purposes at Suzhou University, for a discussion about how these counternarratives served to inflame rampant antisemitism perpetuated by Hitler’s Nazi party.
Surviving the Kindertransport: A Conversation with Manfred Korman
Join us for a special conversation with Manfred Korman, a Holocaust survivor, who describes his family’s deportation from Germany, the last-minute rescue of he and his brother Gerd on the Kindertransport, and the fate of their parents who had completely different experiences during the war.
Lines of Memory: How Survivors, Artists, and Scholars Draw the Past
How do we visually represent the experiences of the Holocaust? The representation of memory and embodied knowledge in sequential art often requires a collaborative, co-creative framework. On the 88th anniversary of the November 1938 pogroms also known as Kristallnacht, join us for a conversation about the exploration of the dynamic between survivors, artists, and scholars in the co-creation of survivor narratives featuring Dr. Mark Celinscak, the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies and Director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and Dr. Charlotte Schallié, Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.