Reconstructing Jewish Life and Culture in the Post-WWII Era

Past Sessions
Sunday, 28 January, 2018 • 12 Sh'vat 5778 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM - Social Hall
Sunday, 26 November, 2017 • 8 Kislev 5778 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM - Social Hall
Sunday, 29 October, 2017 • 9 Cheshvan 5778 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM - Social Hall

A 3-part lecture series by Professor Kalman Weiser

October 29: LIBERATED BUT NOT YET FREE

How were Holocaust survivors affected by post-war politics? What issues divided them? How did they seek to rebuild their lives culturally, spiritually, and otherwise?

November 26: POST-WAR JUSTICE AND HONOUR TRIALS

How did survivors and other Jews respond not only to major war crimes trials but the challenge of trying their own for complicity with the Germans and their accomplices?

January 28: REPARATIONS AND CULTURAL RESTITUTION

The fate of Eastern European archives and libraries. What happened to Eastern European Jewish cultural treasures during the war and how did their restitution in a period of murky legality divide Jews along political and other lines? How do these issues continue to affect us today?

Professor Weiser is Silber Family Chair in East European Jewry and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Humanities at York University. He has lectured extensively at Darchei Noam on the life and times of East European Jewry.

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