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יום שלישי, 03 בנובמבר, 2020

18:15 – 19:45

קישור למפגש בZoom:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86290632056?pwd=WTNyTlM3Y3cwZElkUEUvUHExb0Z0UT09*
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מרצה:

Prof. Nancy Sinkoff

Academic Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center

for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University.

(Writing a Life in History: Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990

Nancy Sinkoff will discuss her new book, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History, the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915–1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called Holocaust studies. Dawidowicz was a household name in the postwar years, not only because of her scholarship on East European Jewry but also due to her political views. Dawidowicz, like many other New York intellectuals, was a youthful communist, became an FDR democrat midcentury, and later championed neoconservatism. Nancy Sinkoff argues that Dawidowicz’s rightward shift emerged out of living in prewar Poland, watching the Holocaust unfold from New York City, and working with displaced persons in postwar Germany. Based on over forty-five archival collections, From Left to Right chronicles Dawidowicz’s life as a window into the major events and issues of twentieth-century Jewish life, connecting the American diaspora to the European heartland as well as to modern state of Israel.

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