Center Programs, 2022-2023
鈥淪urvivors about Surviving the Holocaust in Ukraine”
With Dr. Svitlana Telukha
Thursday, September 22 / 1:00 – 2:30 pm / Online
With additional comments by Prof. Tanya Domi
Co-Sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
鈥淭he Digitization of Genocide Memory: Consequences and Contestations鈥�
With Dr. David J. Simon
Wednesday, September 28 / 12:00 – 1:00 pm / Online
Organized by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, 69色情视频
Film Screening and Discussion, Who Will Write our History? (2018)
With Director Roberta Grossman
Friday, October 7 / 10:00 – 11:35 am & 11:45 am – 12:30 pm / In Person with Online Option
In-Person Film Screening: 10:00 – 11:35 am (Room ASB-135; Additional Options Forthcoming)
Discussion with Director Grossman via WebEx: 11:45 am – 12:30 pm (Room ASB-135 or Online)
Part of our 鈥淥pen Classroom鈥� series鈥擸ou will join the students in Dr. Labendz’s course on the Holocaust as they discuss the week’s theme and assignments (including watching the documentary) with Dr. Erbelding of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Please allow our students to speak and ask questions first.
Co-Sponsored by Hillel of Northern New Jersey
鈥淢apping the Holocaust by Bullets鈥�
With Ewa Schaller
Thursday, October 13 / 12:00 鈥� 1:30 / Online
Organized by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, 69色情视频
鈥淲here are the Nazis? Memory and Myth in Russia, Ukraine, and the USA”
With Dr. Ben Rifkin
Monday, October 24 / 4:00 pm / Friends Hall with Online Option
Kristallnacht Commemoration Featuring 69色情视频 Students
Wednesday, November 9 / 7:00 pm / Congregation Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah
In partnership with
Film Discussion:聽The U.S. and the Holocaust, dir. Ken Burns
With Dr. Rebecca Erbelding
Tuesday, November 15 / 9:55 鈥� 11:35 / Online
Part of our 鈥淥pen Classroom鈥� series鈥擸ou will join the students in Dr. Labendz’s course on the Holocaust as they discuss the week’s theme and assignments (including watching the documentary) with Dr. Erbelding of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Please allow our students to speak and ask questions first.
Film Screening and Discussion:聽Mann vs. Ford (2011)
Panel moderated by Dr. Sarah Koenig (RCNJ)
Tuesday, November 15 / 4:00 – 7:00 PM / Friends Hall
Part of Ramapo’s events for Native American Heritage Month
Co-Sponsored by the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Compliance
Co-Sponsored by the American Studies Program
Panelists:
- Vincent Mann, Turtle Clan Chief, Ramapough Munsee Lenape Nation
- Dr. Chuck Stead, Environmental Educator and Former Adjunct Professor at 69色情视频
- Dr. Michael Edelstein, Retired Professor of Environmental Psychology at 69色情视频
Student Trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
Sunday, November 20th
Students in Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz’ course on the Holocaust visited the museum to learn more about Holocaust memory and commemoration in our region.
Panel Discussion on US and the Holocaust
Thursday, December 1 at 4:00 pm eastern time, via Zoom
An important conversation reflecting on the recent documentary, The US and the Holocaust, organized and Hosted by NJ-PBS in partnership with the Center and the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest.
“Blackness and Jewishness in the USA: Racism, Antisemitism and Community Building”
Wednesday, December 7 at 12:00
Ramapo students gathered in the Black Student Union for a discussion of vital challenges and opportunities, facilitated by Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz and Rachel Sawyer. Co-sponsored by the Black Student Union and the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Compliance.
“The Ongoing Legacy and Impact of the Holocaust in U.S. Foreign Policy”
Ellen Germain
Thursday, January 26 at 6:00 PM (Online)
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2023
Organized by Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College.
Co-Sponsored by the Holocaust Museum & Center For Tolerance and Education at Rockland Community College; the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at 69色情视频 of New Jersey; the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at Saint Elizabeth University; the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Holocaust & Human Rights Center in White Plains; the Center for Social Justice and Human Understanding at Suffolk County Community College; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the US Military Academy West Point; and the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College.
“Civic Engagement, Fair Trade & Indigenous Gender Politics in Guatemala”
Caryn Maxim
Tuesday, January 31 at 69色情视频, Room G126
This inaugural lecture will cover the Guatemalan Genocide
Sponsored by Humanities and Global Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Presidential Committee on Campus Sustainability, Ramapo Green, and the Women’s Center
More information / Direct inquiries to Neriko Doerr
“Holocaust Restitution and Reparations: Past and Future Challenges”
Dr. Avi Weber
Monday, February 13 at 7:00 PM at the YMCA in Wayne
Co-organized with the Israel S. Dresner Memorial Library & Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey, the Wayne YMCA, and Jewish Federation of Northern NJ
More information / Space is limited. Register by emailing holgen@ramapo.edu
“Saving the Jewish Cemeteries of Eastern Europe”
Rabbi Moshe J. Rubin
Tuesday, February 28 at 6:00 PM at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center
Co-organized by the Fair Lawn Jewish Center
More information / Register by emailing to info@fljc.com
“Persecuted Identities of Rohingyas in India: State and Media Complicity”
Dr. Priyanca Mathur
Wednesday, March 8 at 6:30 –聽 8:00 PM, Friends Hall or Online (with advanced registration)
Co-sponsored by the Law and Society Program and the Schomburg Scholars Fund
Pizza and refreshments will be served.
Part of our “Open Classroom Series.” Dr. Mathur will visit Dr. Jacob Labendz’s “Holocaust Media” course. Center guests are invited to view the livestream and, with deference to Ramapo students, ask questions of Dr. Mathur.
“Stuck in Limbo: Lives of Rohingya and other Myanamarese Refugees in India”
Dr. Priyanca Mathur
Thursday, March 9 at 69色情视频, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, SC-156
Organized by the Law and Society Program at 69色情视频 with the Schomburg Scholars Fund and Co-sponsored by the Center
鈥淭he 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Resistance and Survival in the Holocaust鈥�
Dr. Zachary Mazur
Thursday, March 16, 7:30 – 900 pm at Temple Emanu-El, Closter
Co-sponsored by the of the History of Polish Jews and
This event commemorates the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It is cosponsored by the of the History of Polish Jews.
“The Suicides of Two Holocaust Survivors: Primo Levi and Jean Am茅ry”
Dr. Yochai Ataria
Tuesday, March 21 at 1:45 – 3:25 pm, Room H-129 and Online
Co-sponsored by the Center and the Psychology Program with funding from the Schomburg Visiting Scholars Program
Part of our “Open Classroom Series.” Dr. Ataria will visit Dr. James Morley’s “Abnormal Psychology” course. Center guests are invited to join the lecture in person or via livestream and, with deference to Ramapo students, ask questions of Dr. Ataria.
Dr. Ataria will be available for an informal colloquium at 5:00 pm in the Special Collections Reading Room/Center, Room LC-215.
“Czech Scrolls of the Holocaust and Our Brno Torah”
Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz
Tuesday, March 21 at 7:00 – 8:30 PM at in Wayne
Co-organized with the Israel S. Dresner Memorial Library & Lecture Series
Discussion will be followed by a reception with refreshments
“The Racism of People Who Love You: What it Means not to be Like Your Family”
Dr. Samira Mehta
Monday, April 3 at 1:00 PM at 69色情视频, Friends Hall / Or on Zoom with pre-registration
Come join the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the 69色情视频 Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance, and Ramapo Hillel in celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
Pizza and refreshments will be served.
More information / /
Hillel Discussion in Honor of Yom HaShoah: Contemporary Antisemitism
Monday, April 10 at 1:00 PM in the Center, Learning Commons 215
Ramapo students are invited to meet with Jacob Ari Labendz who directs Ramapo’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. We will begin with a tour of the Center and then move to a nearby location for a free kosher lunch and conversation with Dr. Labendz about contemporary antisemitism.
This event is co-sponsored by Ramapo Hillel.
Please RSVP by April 7, so that we can order sufficient food. (If you forget, come anyway!)
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide
Dr. Elyse Semerdjian
Tuesday, April 25 on Zoom, 8:00 – 9:00 pm
In commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day and in partnership with the Armenian National Committee of New Jersey
More information / /
Welcoming our Czech-Holocaust Torah Scroll
Monday, May 1 at 69色情视频, Friends Hall, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Join the Center as we welcome and exhibit a Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (the Czech lands) during WWII. The 18th-century scroll from the City of Kol铆n has been provided on permanent loan by the .
This event is invitation only. Email holgen@ramapo.edu if you would like to attend.
Yom HaShoah in River Edge (Online Only)
Tuesday, May 2 at 7:00 pm via Zoom
Holocaust survivor Peter Adler will offer a presentation about his experiences in Germany of the 1930s, entitled 鈥淢y Life in Nazi Germany: From Persecution to Flight.鈥� Center director, Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz, will moderate the discussion. This event is cosponsored by the River Edge Cultural Center, the River Edge Library, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at 69色情视频.
Holocaust and Genocide Educators Workshop
Monday, May 8 at 69色情视频, Trustees Pavilion
Open and free to teachers and educational professionals, this daylong workshop will feature a virtual tour of Auschwitz with veteran guide Jerzy Wojcik, as well as a pedagogy workshop featuring Heather Lutz and Colleen Tambuscio. Lunch and refreshments will be served.
More information / (space is limited)
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