Joshua Tapper Lectures on “Who Should the Players Be?”: The JDC in the Soviet Union, 1989-1991
After decades of state repression, the relatively liberal political and social climate of the late 1980s emboldened Jews across the Soviet Union to imagine a transition from illegal to legal forms of Jewish expression and activity, from underground to above-ground...
Jonathan Zisook Lectures on “Passover for the Passed Over”: Jewish Religious Life in Poland after 1968
Most Jews in Eastern and Central Europe were annihilated during the Holocaust, and those who survived and remained in the Eastern bloc, were often repressed by the succeeding Communist regimes. The Jewish community in postwar Poland experienced several intense periods...
Lorena Cardona González Lectures on Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Colombia, 1945-1950
The problem of Jewish immigration in Latin America did not end with the defeat of Nazism nor with the dramatic revelation of the crimes committed by the Nazi regime. Some recent research has explored the continuity of discriminatory policies after the war and the...
Sandra Gruner-Domić Lectures on Bolivia, a Forgotten Refuge During the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941
Sandra Gruner-Domić, recipient of the 2021 Bernard and Mollie Steuer / JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture, which examines the immigration of Jewish refugees in Bolivia during the Holocaust, with a special emphasis on the involvement of a Jewish...