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Dr. Amy Simon: Legacies of the Holocaust: Antisemitism in the 20th and 21st Centuries
April 8, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
Please join the Ann Arbor JCC for this special Yom Hashoah program, presented by Dr. Amy Simon of Michigan State University. Dr. Simon will explore the legacy of the hatred of Jews during the Holocaust and how and why it continues to impact the globe. She will also address the current impact of the evolution of antisemitism on perceptions of Zionism and anti-Zionism.
This program is presented by the Israel Center @ the J in partnership with the Eastern Michigan University Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Dr. Martin Shichtman, director of the EMU Center for Jewish Studies and professor in the EMU Department of English will introduce Dr. Simon, and Dr. Jeff Veidlinger, the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies will moderate the question and answer period.
There is no charge to participate but please register to secure the online event. For registration assistance or to register by phone, please call our Welcome Center at (734) 971-0990 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Simon’s Biography:
Dr. Simon holds the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History at Michigan State University. She teaches in James Madison College, the Department of History, and the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel. She has worked as a researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and she held a Leon Milman Memorial Fellowship for research there. Her work on Holocaust fiction, memoir, diaries, and pedagogy has appeared in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Jewish Historical Studies, the Journal of Jewish Identities, and several edited volumes.
This program is proudly supported by the Israel Engagement Fund: A JCC Association of North America Program Accelerator, made possible by the generosity of several committed donors.
The Israel Center @ the J engages individuals with Israel, thoughtfully and respectfully, together as a community, and is funded by a generous grant from the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation.
