General Public

This symposium examines the intersections between Romani and experiences of persecution and between the ways Romani and Jewish survivors, activists, historians, artists, and organizations have sought to come to terms with those experiences.

The event will consists of series of small panels, taking the forthcoming publication of Ari Joskowicz’s book Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Spring 2023) as an occasion to gather and discuss these themes.

Robert Braun, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Political Science, University of California - Berkeley

The Benjamin (Yale 1962) and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series

In this talk, Pierre Birnbaum studies the rise of antisemitism in the United States from the Leo Frank case to the Pittsburgh massacre, outlining the incredible memory of the Kishinev Pogrom within the American Jewish consciousness.

A Slifka Online Salon
Maurice Samuels will engage in a discussion with Rabbi Jason Rubenstein about antisemitism today. How do we define it? How do we explain it? And how do we address it? He will also answer questions from the audience.