The Nanovic Institute for European Studies will host its annual observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) with a guest lunch lecture by Eliyana Adler, professor of history and Judaic studies at Binghamton University. All are invited.
Adler's lecture is titled "Gravestones in Words and Pictures: Yizker Books as Grassroots Holocaust Commemoration."
A Kosher lunch will be available beginning at 12:00 p.m., while supplies last.
About the Speaker
Eliyana Adler is a student and teacher of East European Jewish history, with a particular focus on Poland and the USSR. Her first book, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (WSUP, 2011), examined the history of education and her second book, Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union, followed the experiences of a group of Jewish refugees in the midst of the war and the Holocaust. Currently, she is working on a project about post-Holocaust Jewish memorial books.
Professor Adler enjoys sharing her love of historical methods and Eastern Europe with students.
Originally published at nanovic.nd.edu.