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Jews in Modern Europe Seminar

Sojourns: German-Jewish Refugees and Survivors in Their Late 20th Century Hometowns

February 21, 2024
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
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Jews in Modern Europe Seminar

Sojourns: German-Jewish Refugees and Survivors in Their Late 20th Century Hometowns

February 21, 2024
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Helmut Walser Smith
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Helmut Walser Smith
Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

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Derek J. Penslar
Derek J. Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
 
February 21, 2024
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Join us for a discussion with Helmut Walser Smith on a chapter in his emerging book, tentatively entitled “Our Truth: How Jews and Germans Made the Memory Culture of the Federal Republic,” that considers the experiment of “visitor weeks” in Württemberg in the last two decades of the 20th century. Smith will examine why many German communities invited Jews back to their hometowns and analyze the experiences of those who came back and of the townspeople they encountered.

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