2008 Raphael Lemkin LectureEight Annual Raphael Lemkin Lecture on Holocaust and Genocide“Kristalllnacht: Myths and Realities” |
October 20, 2008, 7:00 pm  Watch NowArchival Information View Scandinavian Cultural Center, University Center |
ALAN STEINWEIS, the Hyman Rosenberg Professor of Modern European History and Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (UNC Press, 1993), and Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (Harvard University Press), as well as two edited volumes and a book on Kristallnacht forthcoming with Harvard UP. In January Professor Steinweis will take up a new position as Director of the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont.
The lecture is named for Raphael Lemkin, an author, international lawyer and Polish Jew who coined the term “genocide” and worked for passage of the United Nations genocide convention.
