Please join us for a constructive, healing dialogue about building and enhancing public confidence in modern medicine and science. What role can such approaches play in restoring  public trust and healing societal discord?

This event features introductory remarks by Dr. Avinoam Patt (NYU), a fireside chat with Dr. Vivek Murthy (19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States) and Dr. Marc Siegel (NYU Langone), as well as a keynote presentation by Dr. Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine) on “Anti-Science, Antisemitism, and Public Health.”

A panel discussion with Dr. Art Caplan (NYU Langone), Dr. Judson Brewer (Brown University), Dr. Vardit Ravitsky (Hastings Center), and Dr. Rachel Yehuda (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), moderated by Dr. Marc Siegel, will conclude the program.

Book talk with editors: Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, and Alexandra Kramen

This new volume features 72 documents (in Yiddish, English, Hebrew, and German) created between 1945 and 1949, that complicate standard representations of the highly variegated community of Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) in Allied-occupied Germany, who came to be known as the surviving remnant or She’erit Hapletah. These documents shed light on efforts to organize Jewish DPs upon liberation, attempts to cope with displacement and trauma, relations with the Allied occupation authorities, and the organization of relief and rehabilitation in the weeks, months, and years after liberation. They highlight the DPs’ struggle to organize political responses to their situation and their remarkable cultural creativity with examples on literature, sport, theatre, humor, education, history, and religion.

Irit Bloch, PhD Irit is an interdisciplinary historian working on German and Jewish social and legal history with a focus on judicial prejudices, antisemitism and racism in the twentieth century. Irit is currently working as a research fellow at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity at the Graduate Center, and teaching a History of the Holocaust course in this Spring semester at Hunter College CUNY. Irit’s research specializations are modern European history, Jewish History, the Holocaust, Antisemitism, and the German legal system. Her research project will focus on developing a chapter of her dissertation that analyzes the 1926 Magdeburg Affair, as part of her book manuscript.

Christopher Probst, PhD Christopher is a historian in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is an adjunct professor of history at Washington University St. Louis where he teaches The Twentieth Century: Age of Genocide, Jews and Christians in Nazi Germany, and History of the Holocaust. His publications include Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany (Indiana University Press, 2012) and “Race, Religion, and the Genocide of the Jews in Nazi Germany,” in The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide (Routledge, 2022). His scholarship resides on the borders of cultural, intellectual, and religious history. At the center, Christopher will be working on his second book, Purifying the Volk, which focuses on Protestant-Jewish relations in southwest Germany and will fill an important gap in historical research about antisemitism shortly before, during, and after the Shoah.

Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). Her research focuses on the intersections between French and American Jewish life during the 20th century. She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (Armand Colin, 2013 in French; Indiana University Press, 2022) which won a National Jewish Book award and Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who fled to France and America (Yale University Press, 2025). She also co-edited L’Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXème siècle. Prévenir et Guérir dans un siècle de violences (Armand Colin, 2014) and Enfants en guerre. « Sans famille » dans les conflits du XXème siècle (éditions CNRS, 2023).

Alan Marcus is Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Connecticut and is a UConn Teaching Fellow. His scholarship and teaching focus on museum education, teaching with film, and global education, with an emphasis on the Holocaust and teaching difficult history. Alan collaborates with museum educators across the United States and internationally, is a Faculty Fellow for the Holocaust Institute for Teacher Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and runs an education abroad program for pre-service teachers in Nottingham, England. Alan is the past president of the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies and was the lead editor, and a writer, for the new State of Connecticut Social Studies Standards. His current research includes evaluating the potential and limitations of virtual interactive Holocaust survivor testimony, participating as a part of the “Technology Meets Testimony” scholar network at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, and studying the use of Virtual Reality with Holocaust survivors at museums. Alan is a former high school social studies teacher and regularly collaborates with K-12 teachers on curriculum development and innovative pedagogy.

This event is open to the NYU Community (faculty, students and staff) with a valid NYU ID. Please RSVP via the button below using your nyu.edu email address. All NYU guest must pre-register in advance. We are not able to accommodate registrations the day of the event. All guests must present a valid NYU ID at the campus safety desk in the lobby when they arrive for the event.

Meir Litvak (PhD Harvard 1991) is a Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History and Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Shiʿi Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The ʿUlamaʾ of Najaf and Karbala (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), co-author of Iran: from a Persian Empire to an Islamic Republic (Tel Aviv: Open University of Israel Press, 2014, Hebrew), and co-author with Esther Webman, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, Hebrew edition 2015). In addition he has edited and co-edited eight books, the most recent one Constructing Nationalism in Iran: From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic came out in May 2017. He has also published articles on modern Shi‘i and Iranian history, on modern Islamic movements, and on Islamist anti-Semitism. His most recent book Know Thy Enemy: Attitudes towards Others in modern Shi`i Iranian Thought and Practice was published by Brill in 2021.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS).

In person and via Zoom: You are invited to register for a Zoom webinar!

When: Mar 4, 2025 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Topic: The Legal Challenges of Decoding Holocaust Distortion: The Case of Poland

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https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zRyN9UTwSeWxbaljYIURDg

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Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and expert in the fields of anti-discrimination law, freedom of speech and memory laws. She is co-editor and co-author of Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History (CUP, 2017). She was Bohdan Winiarski Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre of the University of Cambridge and Graduate Fellow at the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, Yale University. Between 2016 and 2019 she was a Principal Investigator in the Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective(MELA), an international research consortium sponsored by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).

Join the American Jewish Historical Society (co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism) for a book talk on Hollywood’s Unofficial Film Corps: American Jewish Moviemakers and the War Effort with author Michael Berkowitz and moderator Avinoam Patt.

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Join us for a conversation with Jonathan Judaken (Professor of History, Washington University of St. Louis) on his most recent book, Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism.

From the publisher, Columbia University Press, “Despite its persistence and viciousness, antisemitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. This book is at once a philosophical reflection on key problems in the analysis of antisemitism and a history of its leading theories and theorists. Jonathan Judaken explores the methodological and conceptual issues that have vexed the study of Judeophobia and calls for a reconsideration of the definitions, categories, and narratives that underpin overarching explanations. He traces how a range of thinkers have wrestled with these challenges. Judaken argues against claims about the uniqueness of Judeophobia, demonstrating how it is entangled with other racisms: Islamophobia, Negrophobia, and xenophobia. Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism not only urges readers to question how they think about Judeophobia but also draws them into conversation with a range of leading thinkers whose insights are sorely needed in this perilous moment.”

Jonathan Judaken is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual (2006) and a coeditor of Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context (2012) and The Albert Memmi Reader (2020), among other books. Professor Judaken’s research focuses on representations of Jews and Judaism, race and racism, existentialism, and post-Holocaust French Jewish thought.

This event is open to the general public and NYU Community (faculty, students and staff). All must have a valid ID and have preregistered.

Co-presented by the Remarque Institute at NYU.

Open to the Public with preregistration. Co-presented by NYU, Washington DC

Join us at NYU, Washington DC for a conversation with Professor Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) and Daniel Greene (Northwestern University) about antisemitism in American Jewish history and the contemporary moment.

All are invited to join us for a reception from 6:00pm-6:30pm. The program will start at 6:30pm.

Lila Corwin Berman is the current Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History at Temple University and the incoming Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, where she will direct the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her most recent book, The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution, has been awarded the 2021 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society. Her articles have appeared in several scholarly publications, as well as the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy

Daniel Greene is Subject Matter Expert at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. He curated Americans and the Holocaust, an exhibition that opened in 2018 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, to commemorate its twenty-fifth anniversary. The exhibition also inspired The U.S. and the Holocaust, an Emmy-winning documentary film directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein that aired on PBS in 2022. Greene’s co-edited (with Edward Phillips) book, Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022. His book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (Indiana University Press, 2011) won the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize in 2012.

This event is open to the NYU Community (faculty, students and staff) with a valid NYU ID. It is also open to HUC students. Please RSVP via the button below using your nyu.edu or HUC email address. A light, kosher lunch will be provided.

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Join editor Martin Dean and Professor Avinoam Patt for a discussion of the diary of Ita Dimant, Survival. Martin Dean will examine the unique qualities of Ita Dimant's reconstructed Holocaust diary and how it can help us to understand the tenuous and tortuous paths of Holocaust survivors. Ita Dimant was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, who escaped from there to Czestochowa, where she lived mostly on the Aryan side and acted as a courier for Underground Zionist organizations, passing on information about the situation in other ghettos. Fearing exposure, she contemplated suicide, but ultimately was deported to forced labor in Germany, where she survived until the liberation.  

Martin Dean holds a PhD in History from Cambridge University. He worked previously as a war crimes investigator and is now a historical consultant. He has edited and translated several books and is the author of four monographs, including Robbing the Jews (2008), which won a National Jewish Book Award.

Professor Avinoam Patt is the Director of NYU’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University

When Jewish art dealer Berthe Weill opened her gallery in 1901, the infamous Dreyfus affair was calling attention to an alarming growth of antisemitism in France, dividing the nation and the Parisian art world alike into two opposing camps. This lecture, by Dr. Maurice Samuels, Professor of French at Yale University and the author of Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (2024), explores Dreyfus’s complex relationship to Judaism and to antisemitism over the course of his life, and the profound effect of the Dreyfus Affair on the lives of Jews around the world.         

Before the lecture, visit Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde at the Grey Art Museum during special open hours on Monday, Oct. 21 from 5–6:15pm. Please check in at 20 Cooper Square to access the exhibit.

Free Admission. Guests must register via the button below in advance of the event. Ticketing will close the evening of October 20th. Please have a valid ID with you for check in at the event.

Co-presented by the Grey Art Museum, NYU.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Jewish Alumni Network.

MAURICE SAMUELS is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French and director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism at Yale University. He is the author of four books: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (Cornell, 2004); Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford, 2010 / Hermann, 2017); The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews (Chicago, 2016 / La Découverte, 2022); The Betrayal of the Duchess (Basic Books, 2020). Samuels is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and of the New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship. Alfred Dreyfus The Man at the Center of the Affair (Yale University Press, 2024) is his latest book.