The Jack Abel Lecture in Antisemitism with Claire Zalc
Where: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
511 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Ave.
212-854-2581 Price: Free
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Join the Institute on Monday, January 27, at 4:00 PM for the inaugural Jack Abel Lecture in Antisemitism, with Claire Zalc on “Family Separation and Antisemitism: Reconstructing the Migrations of Jewish Siblings from Poland Across the Early 20th Century.”
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The lecture presents a collective biography of Jewish Siblings from the Polish town of Lubartów from the early 1920s through the 1950s. The five siblings traverse the globe in an attempt to evade antisemitism. Their journeys take them to various locations, including Germany, England, France, Venezuela, Colombia, and the Auschwitz concentration camp. Some of them survived the Holocaust, while others were murdered. By combining a transnational perspective with a microhistorical methodology, this lecture addresses the relations between migrations and persecution.
It aims to examine the role of kinship, local and transnational ties, and relational resources in the fate of individuals facing antisemitism. Who fled? When and where? With whom? Who survived, and who did not? This also broaches the question of “who knew what” among the victims by studying how information circulated among them. What opportunities do individuals have to circumvent, escape, or survive? The objective is to comprehend the dynamics of a collective that has undergone significant disruption and extreme violence.
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