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The Future of Memory. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, in conversation with Clémence Boulouque

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

Serge and Beate Klarsfeld reflect on their work devoted to tracking down Nazi criminals and restoring the memory of the lives of Jews who died in the Holocaust. They will also discuss the importance of transmitting this work of memory to subsequent generations. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted their lives to bringing fugitive Nazis to justice, a mission they…

Michele Sarfatti, “Jews in Italy and Nazi and Fascist Persecution. Themes for Future Research.”

Italian Academy (Columbia) 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City

This lecture by Michele Sarfatti Introduced by David Kertzer, is sponsored by the Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, and presented on the occasion of the upcoming publication of a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies focusing on the 80th anniversary of the implementation of…

The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Others

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City

Join us as Elliot R. Wolfson, Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks about his highly anticipated new book, The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other. In The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Elliot Wolfson intervenes in debates about the notorious philosopher as a scholar of Jewish mysticism who…

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