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Jan Schwarz, “Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust” (Wayne State UP, 2015)
Episode 326
In Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2015), Jan Schwarz, Associate Professor of Yiddish studie…
10 years, 1 month ago
James Waller, “Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Episode 325
Today is the third of our occasional series on the question of how to respond to mass atrocities. Earlier this summer I talked with Scott Straus and …
10 years, 1 month ago
Bridget Conley-Zilkic, ed. “How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 324
If you want to know how to bring future mass atrocities to an end, the best place to start is to examine how past mass atrocities have ended.
This si…
10 years, 2 months ago
Lauren Faulkner Rossi, “Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Episode 323
I teach at a Catholic university and last semester co-taught (with a theologian) a class titled The Holocaust and its Legacies. Once my students beca…
10 years, 2 months ago
Scott Straus, “Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention” (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016)
Episode 322
This podcast is the first of a new occasional series of interviews addressing the question of responding to mass atrocities and genocide. Later in th…
10 years, 3 months ago
Ugur Umit Ungor, “Genocide: New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences” (Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
Episode 321
I remember working on my master’s thesis while at Ohio State. Hour after hour after hour I labored-writing, rewriting, formatting. Then the day of th…
10 years, 4 months ago
Stefan Ihrig, “Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Episode 319
At least twice in past interview descriptions I’ve used the famous phrase attributed to Hitler: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of …
10 years, 4 months ago
Andrew Woolford, “This Benevolent Experiment” (U of Nebraska Press, 2015)
Episode 318
I grew up in Michigan, in the United States, where I was surrounded by places named with Native American names. I drove to Saginaw to play in basketb…
10 years, 5 months ago
Ingrid Carlberg, “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography” (MacLehose Press, 2016)
Episode 317
What makes a person? What makes an act heroic? And what determines a person’s fate? These are the questions driving the narrative in Ingrid Carlberg‘…
10 years, 6 months ago
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, “Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Episode 316
Suzanne Brown-Fleming suggests that most people think the archives of the International Tracing Service is largely a list of names and addresses. I w…
10 years, 7 months ago