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Join the editors for a lively virtual conversation

Moderated by Scott Lasensky

Date: Wed November 18, 2020, 1:30 PM

Location: Zoom

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This event is co-sponsored by the Miller Center and the European Caucus, and it is part of the Miller Center's Truth and History Series. The trial of Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie in 1987 was the first French trial that focused on the Holocaust. This talk will focus on Barbie’s attorney Jacques Vergès, still a celebrated figure on the anti-colonial and anti-Zionist French left. Vergès argued that French Jews had constructed a monster out of Barbie, forging the written evidence against him while hiding evidence of French Jewish...

Arie Dubnov is an associate professor of history and the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at the George Washington University. This talk will be looking at some of the "maximalists” — an eclectic group of intellectuals and warriors who chose the path of open confrontation and military struggle with both Palestinian-Arabs and the British mandatory forces in the 1930s and ‘40s. 

The Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies along with The Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and History Department, Nathan &...

Please come to a FREE concert “Remembering the Jews of Greece: A Musical Journey” on the evening of Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 7 PM.

 The concert will feature traditional songs and original compositions in Ladino, the Judaeo-Spanish language of the Sephardim, by singer Sarah Aroeste in a multimedia performance featuring stories and video footage from Aroeste’s own family. 

This special evening will take place in the Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes Fine Arts Building, The University of Maryland, College Park and is co-sponsored...