Book Launch of Carl S. Ehrlich, Anders Runesson, and Eileen Schuller (eds.), "Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th, 2013 - 1pm-3pm, Kaneff Tower - 7th Floor Lounge This volume has been put together in memory of a brilliant student who was active in Toronto's Jewish community, received a B.A. from York University, and was working on her doctorate at McMaster University at the time of her untimely passing. York faculty […]
Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse - "The 'jew's' Passage to India: Hybridity, Globalism, and Diaspora in Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie," - Thursday, April 18, 12 noon, 7th Floor YRT - Room 764
The talk will discuss Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay (1988) and Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sign (1995) as examples of the complexity of the use of the Holocaust and Jewish history in postcolonial and postmodern fiction. Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published on modern […]
Life and Death in the Lodz Ghetto, Sunday, March 17, 2013, 7pm - Osgoode Hall Law School, Moot Court Rm. 1005
Life in Baluty: Readings from Ann Szedlecki's memoir, Album of My Life Professor Samuel D. Kassow - Life and Death in the Lodz Ghetto Samuel D. Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College Connecticut. He is the author of Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes […]
Voices and Images from the Lodz Ghetto, Film and Discussion Program, Sunday, March 10, 2013, Osgoode Hall Law School, Rm. 1001
2pm - Film: "Photographer", Discussion led by Professor Mark Webber, York University 4pm - Intermission and Reception, sponsored by the Consulates General of Poland and Germany 4:30pm - Film: "Song of the Lodz Ghetto", Comments and Discussion with David Kaufman, Film Director The films, discussions and reception are free of charge and open to the […]
The Face of the Ghetto - February 24 - March 17, 2013
The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures by Jewish Photographers from the Lodz Ghetto 1940-1944. Osgoode Hall Law Library, February 24-March 17, 2013 Hours: Monday-Thursday 8am-10pm Friday 8am-5pm Saturday-Sunday 10am-6pm The Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and Osgoode Hall Law School will host a unique photography exhibition of rare photographs taken by photographers in the Lodz […]
Professor Lawrence Baron, The Armenian/Jewish Connection: Holocaust & Armenian Genocide Films - March 6, 2013
Location: 7th Floor York Research Tower, Rm. 764 Time: 4pm-7pm Before the advent of the Holocaust, Europe's Jews often cited the Armenian Genocide as a precedent for the Holocaust. The Turkish campaign to deny that the Armenian Genocide occurred and the proliferation of Holocaust films turned the tables around. This lecture looks at how the […]
Book Launch of Mia Spiro's "Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction" - February 13, 2013
Location: 7th Floor lounge, York Research Tower Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm Mia Spiro is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University's Crown Center for Jewish Studies. She earned her MA and PhD from York University, as well as a graduate diploma in […]