Robin Buller Lectures on Sephardi Immigrants to France, 1919-1945
Robin Buller, recipient of the 2022 Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, lectured on “Ottoman Echoes: Remnants of the Empire among Sephardi Immigrants to France, 1919-1945.” In this lecture, Robin Buller discussed how in the first decades of the...
Michael Rom Lectures on Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61
Michael Rom, recipient of the 2022 Nathan and Sarah Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, presented “From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61,” on March 29, 2023. In this lecture, Michael Rom discussed how following the 1956 Suez War...
Ethell Gershengorin Lectures on The JDC’s Activities on Behalf of Eastern European Jewish Children, 1919-1929
Ethell Gershengorin, recipient of the 2022 Max and Cecil (Steuer) Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture on Aiding Their “Unfortunate Brethren”: The JDC’s Activities on Behalf of Eastern European Jewish Children, 1919-1929. In this lecture, Ethell...
Walter Francis Lectures on “Building Memory: Jewish Communal Reconstruction in Postwar Tunisia, 1945-1967”
For twenty-two years after the Allied liberation of North Africa from Nazi occupation, Tunisian Jewish political and religious authorities sought to secure a place for the Jews in Tunisian national and civic life. Contrary to the experience of other Middle Eastern and...