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• Bruno Chaouat to participate in Talmud Torah of St. Paul's evening of Jewish Learning

  Engage: An evening of Jewish Learning
  Is Holocaust Awareness Bad for the Jews?
  January 28, 2012
  8:35 p.m. - 9:35 p.m.
  Talmud Torah of St. Paul
  

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• CHGS to Host Symposium on the University During the Third Reich

  THE BETRAYAL OF THE HUMANITIES: THE UNIVERSITY DURING THE THIRD REICH
  Sunday, April 15 and Monday April 16, 2012

  The university is traditionally seen as a safeguard of the values of Western civilization. It stands as a beacon for such fundamental principles as critical thought, free inquiry and ethical research. Yet, history tells us that this was not always so. Under National Socialism in Germany (1933-1945), the universities and the academic disciplines themselves became in many cases all-too-eager accomplices in the perpetration of Nazi ideology. Not only did the normal administrative structure of the university become corrupted, but learning itself betrayed its own mission as prestigious disciplines propagated Nazi racial science and beliefs.

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• The Post Holocaust Golem: A Jewish Legend Returns Now on CHGS YouTube Channel

  On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, spoke about how contemporary Jewish-American writers have created golem stories as a re-imagining of text-centered Jewish traditions by appropriating, adapting, revising and riffing on older golem legends. Such appropriation, deploying the imagination to seek a better understanding of human nature, is crucial in light of the Holocaust experience under the Nazis. The presentation included golems from novels, comic books, graphic narratives, and "The X-Files."

  Dr. Baer's new book, The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction from Wayne State University Press, will appear in Spring 2012.
  
  The lecture can be viewed on the Center's YouTube channel, CHGSumn.
  
  

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Community Events

• Berlin Summer Academy: The Holocaust and Present-day Jewish Life in Germany

  July 15-22, 2012
  A summer study program in Berlin, Germany, for U.S. public secondary school teachers in cooperation with the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
  

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• Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies Eighth International Conference on Holocaust Education

  Telling the Story Teaching the Core: Holocaust Education for the 21st Century
  June 18-21, 2012
  

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• The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies Berlin, Humboldt University

  The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies, based at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, is open to international applications for the 2012 summer session (July 5 to August 17). The application deadline is January 15, 2012.

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