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Jewish Identity, Antisemitism, and Belonging
Jewish Identity, Antisemitism, and Belonging
Date: June 5, 2019 - Wednesday
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Triumph Hall, Conference Center, Hongkou Campus
Language: English
Speaker: Nelly Las, Françoise S. Ouzan
Summary:
(1) Nelly Las: “Jewish Voices in Feminism: Facing Antisemitism”;
(2) Françoise S. Ouzan: “From Victims to Social Actors: How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives”.
Speaker Biography:
Nelly Las Dr Nelly Las is an Israeli scholar specialized in Jewish history and gender studies. The subject of her Ph.D. thesis at the Sorbonne University (Paris I) was: “The Impact of Zionism on French Jewry from the Dreyfus Affair to World War II (1896-1942)”. She is currently affiliated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Research Associate with Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (USA). Her fields of interest and research are: Contemporary Jewry (Zionism, Antisemitism, History of French Jewry), and Women’s Studies (Feminism, Women in Jewish History).
Françoise S. Ouzan Françoise S. Ouzan received her PhD in history from the Paris I-Sorbonne University. Formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Reims, she is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University. Françoise Ouzan has published widely on displaced persons, antisemitism, and American Jewry, and she recently coedited Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities (2012), and Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth, 1945-1967 (2014, paperback, 2016). Her new book, entitled How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives, France, the United States, and Israel