Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Remembering Feinstein
It is with great sadness that we announce that Steve Feinstein, the director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Adjunct Professor of History, died Tuesday, March 4. Steve was speaking at the Jewish Film Festival when he had difficulty finding words. He was taken to Abbott-Northwestern Hospital where he died of an aortic aneurism that resulted in cardiac arrest. His wife Sue was with him the entire time.
Steve had an amazingly generous nature and could get things accomplished that no one had ever conceived or thought possible. From its founding in 1997, he built the University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies into a premier educational, research, and outreach institution, one that has international renown.
It's a sad day. We will all miss Steve's generous personality, constant stream of jokes, and deep commitment to the issues at the heart of CHGS's mission. More than anything else, he was a great humanitarian who believed that knowledge of the past could prevent atrocities in the future.
Steve leaves his wife Sue, two children, Jeremy and Rebecca, and two grandchildren.
University Events
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- Armenians and Turkey's Lingering Past - program airing on TPT
- 7/28/2008 9:00 PM
- Location: Off Campus, Television Broadcast Broadcast of talk given by Taner Akcam and Eric Weitz at the IAS on November 29, 2006, "A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility." Program will appear on TPT-Channel 17 on broadcast television, and on satellite and Minnesota Channel cable stations; Channel 13 on the Comcast C... more
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- Armenians and Turkey's Lingering Past - program airing on TPT
- 7/29/2008 3:00 AM
- Location: Off Campus, Television Broadcast Broadcast of talk given by Taner Akcam and Eric Weitz at the IAS on November 29, 2006, "A Shameful Act: Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility." Program will appear on TPT-Channel 17 on broadcast television, and on satellite and Minnesota Channel cable stations; Channel 13 on the Comcast C... more
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- Witness to Darfur
- 9/3/2008 5:00 PM
- Location: Off Campus, State Capitol Mall Witness to Darfur Exhibit "Camp Darfur" http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/campdarfur National Speakers to be announced
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- Voices to Vision: Holocaust Survivors' experience told through art
- 9/16/2008 7:00 PM
- Location: Regis Center for Art, Nash Gallery Voices to Vision: Holocaust Survivors' experience told through art Panel and exhibit <BR http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/exhibitions/voice/
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- Voices to Vision: Romania 1941 and Rwanda 1994
- 9/20/2008 7:00 PM
- Location: Regis Center for Art, Nash Gallery Voices to Vision: Romania 1941 and Rwanda 1994: Genocide Survivor's experiences told through art Panel and exhibit http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/exhibitions/voice/
Community Events & News
Jewish Literature: Identity and Imagination
A reading and discussion series in America's libraries
Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic NovelFree and open to the public
May 21st, 2008
Led by author and U of M Jewish Studies Instructor Judith Katz
7:00 pm - Highland Park Branch Library
June 24, July 8, July 22, August 5, August 19
http://http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/outreach/marvels
To register: Call 612-626-2281 or e-mail s-gang@umn.eduCHGS in the News
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February 27th, 2008Summer Internships Available
There are many summer internships available with the Genocide Intervention Network. For more information click here
February 22nd, 2008From TPT/Channel 17 Twin Cities
The Minnesota Channel has a new distribution option available to its partners, that could be especially useful for those, like the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, that have been making DVD copies of our collaborative television programs to mail out to schools around the nation for classroom use.
April 6th, 2007