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UMN to examine its 1930s-’40s discrimination against Jews, blacks

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November 14, 2018

The Translated Jew: German Jewish Culture outside the Margins Book Launch

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The Translated Jew: German Jewish Culture outside the Margins book launch with Leslie Morris, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota. Presented by the Center for...

November 15, 2018

"Am I a 'zhid'?": Anti-Semitism on the Soviet Home Front...

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This talk will examine the rise of anti-Semitism in the unoccupied territories of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. It will consider the role of population displacement in...

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