Book Talk: The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust

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Historians began writing the history of the Holocaust in Yiddish from a distinctly Jewish perspective in the years immediately after World War II. These Yiddish historians studied the Holocaust from the perspective of its Jewish victims, rather than that of the Nazi perpetrators, examining daily life in the ghettos and camps, and stressing the importance of survivor testimonies, eyewitness accounts,…

Book Launch: “Permanent Crisis – The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age”

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Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation with Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, moderated by Sharon Marcus in the context of the recent publication of Reitter and Wellmon’s new book, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (The University of Chicago Press, 2021). The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem…