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Since August 2020, six scholars from diverse fields
have been collaborating in USC Shoah Foundation's inaugural Scholar Lab to address the
question, “Why the Jews?” This fall, in a series of three
events, the scholars will present their individual research projects and
discuss their findings.
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MacArthur Grant-winner Dr. Josh Kun of USC
will present commentary, music and archival recordings in a presentation that explores the Nazi’s use of music as a soundtrack
to terror.
UCLA’s Dr. Todd Presner, winner of the Digital Media and Learning Prize from
the MacArthur Foundation/HASTAC, will present a computational
analysis of the language survivors use to describe antisemitism in Visual History Archive testimony.
Moderated by Dr. Alexis Lerner, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the
United States Naval Academy
Image of a
1944 SS retreat that inspired Josh Kun's research. Copyright by
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anonymous Donor.
Photograph Number: 34768.
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Dr. Jonathan
Judaken,
Humanities Chair and Professor of History at Rhodes College, examines
how major theorists of antisemitism understand its underlying
causes.
Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor
of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, looks at
what prominent writers and thinkers in the historical western
tradition have written about Jews.
Moderated by Dr. Paul Lerner, Professor of
History at USC.
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Dr. Mehnaz Afridi and Dr. Sara Lipton
Antisemitism
and Religion
Wednesday 16 November 2022
1:30 PM PST/ 4:30 PM EST / 9:30 PM GMT/ 8:30
AM+1 AEDT
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Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Professor of
Religious Studies and Director of The Holocaust, Genocide, and
Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College, examines
antisemitism in the Arab world.
Dr. Sara Lipton, Professor of History at SUNY Stonybrook University
and author of Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish
Iconography, presents her findings on the representations of Jews
in medieval Christian sermons.
Moderated by Dr. Jessica
Marglin,
Associate Professor of Religion at USC
Image: View of the dam being built in the Im Fout labor camp
in Morocco, 1941-42. Copyright by United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, courtesy of Sami Dorra
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"I think that the Shoah
Foundation did a great job of bringing a progressive approach to an
ancient topic, of not wanting to repeat what's been said and written but bringing together different people who have different beliefs and
different approaches to understanding how antisemitism moves through
the world and how it is used."
– Josh Kun, Professor and Chair
of Cross-Cultural Communication at USC’s Annenberg School of
Communication and Journalism.
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Did You Know?
If you have a loved one who
has testimony contained in our Visual History Archive,
we can send you a link to download the
testimony at no cost.
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