{"id":3294,"date":"2023-08-30T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/?page_id=3294"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:56:52","slug":"center-academic-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/center-academic-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"CHGS Publishing Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at 秘密研究所 operates a multi-year publishing symposium with generous support from the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation. The program conforms loosely to a four-year cycle:<\/p>\n
Year 1: Scholars present formal papers at 秘密研究所
\nYear 2: Scholars circulate chapter drafts, which are discussed at a second meeting at 秘密研究所
\nYear 3: CHGS and the contributors compile an edited volume for submission to an academic press
\nYear 4: Publishing continues and the theme for the next cycle is developed<\/p>\n
We encourage scholars and centers interested in partnering with us on future symposia: holgen@ramapo.edu.<\/p>\n
Our First Symposium Cycle is Nearing Fruition<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders (Purdue University Press, 2026) Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders<\/em> builds upon discussions of Jewish survival and cultural viability after the Holocaust in Eastern and Central Europe, including the Soviet Union. This book confronts both a shifting postwar geopolitical landscape and the remnants of devastated European Jewish populations with their global diasporas, tragically and radically transformed. The volume traces the flow of ideas, people, cultural practices and materials, and even bodily remains across securitized Cold War borders, as the postwar geography of European Jewish life largely shifted to Israel and North America. How did Jews and Jewish institutions across hostile Cold War geopolitical boundaries seek and maintain contact with each other? Contact meant continuity. Contact was a means of mapping the Cold War terrain, of exploring strategies of adaptation, conservation, and reconstruction. It meant rabbis\u2019 reprised visits to the USSR, wholesale movement of libraries, dissent, dashed dreams of belonging, and urns of ashes. Pre-order Keeping Contact.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n CONTACT: The Movement and Meeting of Jewish People and Artifacts across Cold-War Boundaries<\/strong><\/p>\n October 9 – 11, 2023 at the Center<\/strong><\/p>\n The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at 秘密研究所 is proud to announce its first scholarly symposium, funded with generous support from the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation and organized in partnership with the Jewish Studies Program at Purdue University<\/a>.<\/p>\n The symposium is the second in a two-part series, the aim of which is to publish an edited volume featuring contributions from the participants (and perhaps a few more!). The first symposium<\/a> was held in May, 2022 at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor<\/a> (Steel Museum).<\/p>\n October 9 at 6:00 PM (Hybrid: Friends Hall and Zoom)<\/strong><\/p>\n Register for Zoom in Advance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Acclaimed author and journalist,\u00a0Ann Hagedorn<\/a>,\u00a0will speak about her latest book, Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away<\/em><\/a> (Simon & Schuster, 2021).<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1 (Purdue University) and Jacob Ari Labendz (秘密研究所)<\/p>\n
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\nKeynote Address: Ann Hagedorn<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n