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Who Will Write Our History: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto (10/30/18)
Aug. 30, 2018—Who Will Write Our History: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto Tuesday, October 30 2018 at 7:00 PM Belcourt Theatre 2012 Belcourt Avenue Imagine if Anne Frank’s diary had never been published. Millions fewer people would know about the Holocaust or see the individual faces of its victims. In fact, the world would be a...
Estelle Laughlin: Warsaw Ghetto Survivor (9/13/18)
Aug. 30, 2018—Estelle Laughlin, Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Thursday, September 13 2018 at 7:00 PM The Schulman Center for Jewish Life—Vanderbilt Hillel 2421 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN Estelle Laughlin is a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Uprising, and concentration camps. She immigrated to America at eighteen with only three years of public school education. Estelle was...
[HLS Keynote] Coexistence and Violence: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians on Poland’s Eastern Borderlands (9/4/18)
Aug. 30, 2018—Holocaust Lecture Series Keynote: “Coexistence and Violence: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians on Poland’s Eastern Borderlands “ Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 7:00 PM Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School This lecture will discuss the triangular relationship between Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia, with a particular emphasis on the town of Buczacz, between the rise...
Is Broken Faith Still Faith? Reflections on the Final Sermons of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira of the Warsaw Ghetto (4/11/18)
Sep. 7, 2017—April 11th at 7 p.m. Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira was considered one of the great heroes of the Warsaw ghetto, shepherding his flock of broken Jews as the ghetto turned increasingly into the nightmare it became. As time went on, the elasticity of Shapira’s own faith was tested as...
Can We Speak of a Divine Purpose to the Holocaust? Hasidic and Religious Zionist Perspectives (4/12/18)
Sep. 7, 2017—April 12th at 7 p.m. Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room “Where was God in the Holocaust?” is one of the most frequently asked questions when the Holocaust is studied from a theological perspective. From a traditional covenantal point-of-view, one cannot easily say that God was absent in the Holocaust. Yet, from an empirical point-of-view, the...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past (1/26/18)
Sep. 6, 2017—January 26th at 7 p.m. Benton Chapel, Vanderbilt University Jennifer Teege, an international best-selling author, will be the HLS keynote speaker for spring semester. At age thirty-eight Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf having no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognizing photos of her mother and grandmother in...
Genocide Prevention Response Simulation (1/20-21/18)
Sep. 6, 2017—January 20th 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. January 21st 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Vanderbilt Divinity School Participants in this interactive experience will meet in one of six groups, which will in turn assemble in plenary sessions designed to develop appropriate responses to an impending mass atrocity. The scenario is quite realistic and exposes groups...
Out of Darkness: A Chamber Performance by The Blakemore Trio and Friends with a Lecture by Joy H. Calico, Professor of Musicology (10/28/17)
Sep. 6, 2017— October 28th at 7 p.m. Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music Blair musicians Amy Dorfman, piano; Carolyn Huebl, violin; Felix Wang, cello; and friends Evan Bish, bass; Bil Jackson, clarinet; Amy Jarman, soprano; Christina McGann, viola; along with Joy H. Calico offer this lecture and performance to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Vanderbilt Holocaust...
Voices of Hope & Resistance: Courage Was My Only Option with Roman Kent (10/24/17)
Sep. 6, 2017—October 24 at 7 p.m. Board of Trust Room, Student Life Center Born in Lodz, Poland, Kent spent the war years in the Lodz Ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Mertzbachtal, Dornau, and Flossenburg concentration camps. He arrived in the United States in 1946 under the auspices of the children’s quota of the United States government’s...
Where Memory Leads: 40th Anniversary Keynote by Professor Saul Friedlander (9/26/17)
Sep. 6, 2017—September 26th at 7 p.m. Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School Saul Friedlander is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli/American historian and currently professor emeritus of history at UCLA. Professor Friedlander, a historian and a memoir writer, will explore how these disparate genres intersect and, more importantly, where these disciplines of knowing can lead us to a faithful...