The Polish-Jewish writer Julian Stryjkowski (1905-1996) is mostly and justly famous for his “Galician Tetralogy,” a sequence of four novels depicting the life in Jewish shtetl right before and at the very beginning of the World War I. The description … Read more
This talk will address the east-central European origins of development concepts that came to dominate the postwar world. Treating social science as a situated phenomenon, shaped by the twentieth century’s violent politics, Dr. Mazurek aims to explain why and how … Read more
Hasia R. Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She has built her scholarly career around the study of American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and the history of … Read more
Join UNC Hillel for their 2022 Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) program. This year the program will honor the legacy of Muslim rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust in Albania with the exhibit, Besa: A Code of Honor. Muslim Albanians Who Rescued … Read more
Franek and Jozek Kalina, sons of a poor farmer, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80’s, and cut all ties with his family. Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in … Read more
After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak borderlands (known as the Sudetenland during the war) endured continued violence and ethnic cleansing, which also affected German-speaking Jews, many of whom had just returned from concentration or labor camps. In 1947, representatives … Read more
The study of Soviet Jewish culture and collective psyche presents a fascinating yet still little known subject of inquiry. Frequently subject to quotas and varying degrees of discrimination, Soviet Jews still participated fully within the larger society. Most were secular, … Read more
