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"Why? Explaining the Holocaust" is an authoritative, groundbreaking exploration of the origins of one of the most tragic events in human history.
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January 27th is the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Despite much public and academic attention to the Holocaust, many people still find comprehending how it could happen, quite difficult. Professor Hayes will provide historically grounded answers to two central, continuously troubling questions about the subject: Why were Jews attacked and killed? Why didn’t any entity or organization prevent or lessen the murders? At a time when manifestations of antisemitism are resurgent at home and violent persecution is multiplying for refugees and victims of state-sponsored violence abroad, the answers could not be more relevant to Americans today.
Presenter: Peter Hayes holds degrees from Bowdoin, Oxford, and Yale and was from 1980 to 2016 Professor of History and German and from 2000 to 2016 Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University. His publications have won several prizes and been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, and Spanish. His works on the Holocaust include not only "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (2017), but also "How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader" (2015), "The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies" (2010) that he edited with John K. Roth; and "German Railroads, Jewish Souls" (2020), a study of deportation trains that he and Christopher Browning assembled around two path-breaking essays by the late Raul Hilberg. From 2014 to 2019, Hayes chaired the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on which he served for a total of twenty years. Also an award-winning teacher, he lectures widely on German and Holocaust history in the United States and abroad.
At the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here:
https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/64246
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AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | History | Author Talk |
TAGS: | #Holocaust Remembrance Day |
