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SUMMARY:Ofer Ashkenazi\, "Navigating Profound Uncertainty: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany"
DESCRIPTION:This talk presents the key arguments of Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (Ashkenazi\, Grossmann\, Miron and Wobick-Segev) and outlines potential directions for future research. The rise of National Socialism coincided with the unprecedented popularization of private photography\, leading German Jews to avidly record their daily lives amid the regime’s escalating antisemitic measures. Drawing on a database of some 15\,000 photographs taken by women and men of all ages\, the talk examines how Jews documented their experiences within a rapidly changing German landscape. Using a methodology that emphasizes photographs’ roles within (private) historical narratives—conveying emotions\, beliefs\, and expectations—it shows how these images offer unique insight into German Jews’ self-perceptions and strategies for navigating a time of profound uncertainty. \n  \nOfer Ashkenazi is Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and current George Mosse Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research explores German-Jewish cultural history\, Jewish experience under Nazism\, migration and political activism\, and the memory of Nazi violence. His recent books include the monographs Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (2025\, with Rebekka Grossmann\, Shira Miron\, and Sarah Wobick-Segev) and Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape\, 1918–1968 (2020)\, as well as the edited volume Rethinking Jewish History and Memory through Photography (2025\, co-edited with Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan).  \n  \nCosponsors: Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center and UWM’s Departments of Anthropology\, Art History\, Communication\, and History; and Programs in German; Journalism\, Advertising\, and Media Studies; and Digital Arts and Culture \nRegister for Zoom at https://bit.ly/4lX2yMe \n\nCampus Map and Parking\nParking is available for a cost at the UWM Student Union\, as well as on the street. \nA campus map is located on UWM’s Website; the PDF version includes directions and parking locations
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/ofer-ashkenazi-navigating-profound-uncertainty-jewish-photography-in-nazi-germany/
LOCATION:Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Stories from The Violins of Hope by The Braid (film and talkback)
DESCRIPTION:The stringed survivors were brought back to life – and to the world – by a family of violin restorers spanning three generations. This is the true story of luthier Amnon Weinstein who took what might have become an exhibit of ruined instruments\, restored them\, and put them into the hands of musicians all over the world so that a new generation can hear them. The survivors of the Holocaust will not be here forever\, but these violins will continue to tell their stories for generations to come. Produced by The Braid in their signature style of Salon Theatre\, Stories From the Violins of Hope is a 55-minute filmed performance featuring seven professional actors with music performed by five musicians from the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony.  \nStories from the Violins of Hope has been screened by The United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust\, reaching 30 countries. The film was also an Official Selection in the 2002 Greenwich International Film Festival and won the 2023 Ojai Film Festival. It has been broadcast to 15 Latin-American countries in Spanish and Portuguese\, and shared in communities across the U.S. from Santa Barbara to Staten Island. \nIn partnership with Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center and Jewish Museum Milwaukee. \nFree and open to the public
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/stories-from-the-violins-of-hope-by-the-braid-film-and-talkback/
LOCATION:UWM Union Cinema\, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, WI
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lisa Silverman\, The Postwar Antisemite: Culture & Complicity After the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Silverman in Conversation with Alan Singer  \nDecades before the Nazi persecution of the Jews would emerge as a master moral paradigm of evil in popular culture\, the constructed Antisemite became part of a forceful narrative structure that allowed stereotypes about Jews to persist\, even as explicit antisemitism became taboo. In the recently released The Postwar Antisemite\, Lisa Silverman examines the crucial development and implications of the figural Antisemite in a range of events in Austria\, Germany\, and the United States including the trials of Nazi star director Veit Harlan for crimes against humanity\, the works of authors Anna Seghers and Rudolf Brunngraber\, and films including Gentleman’s Agreement. Join us at Boswell for an important conversation about this history and what it reveals about antisemitism. \nRegister for event: lisasilvermanmke.eventbrite.com \nLisa Silverman is Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in modern German and Austrian Jewish cultural history\, with a focus on gender\, visual culture\, and antisemitism. She is also author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford\, 2012) and co-author with Daniel H. Magilow of Holocaust Representations in History: an Introduction (Bloomsbury\, 2015; 2nd ed. 2019). \nAlan H. Singer is Associate Teaching Professor in UWM’s Honors College\, where he teaches courses on social\, intellectual\, and political history. His courses include: “The Oldest Hatred: The Jewish People as the Perpetual Other”\, “We\, Ourselves: Nations and Nationalisms in the Modern World”\, and “Transatlantic Revolutions: Resistance\, Rebellion and Social Conflict\, 1650-1800”.  His research focuses on how cultural representations of Jews were used in political and social conflict. \nIn partnership with Boswell Books. Cosponsored by UWM’s History Department and Honors College. \n  \n 
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/book-launch-lisa-silverman-the-postwar-antisemite-culture-complicity-after-the-holocaust/
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SUMMARY:Workshop with Jennifer Caplan\, ""For Jor-El So Loved The World...:  Jews and Comic Books from Superman to Sabra"
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will engage participants in discussion about the Jewish identity of various superheroes from DC and Marvel Comics. Some\, like Kitty Pryde and Sabra\, have been Jewish since their inception. Others\, like The Thing\, Magneto\, and Ragman were not written as Jewish\, but have been made Jewish over their publication histories. And then there is Superman. Superman was not written as Jewish\, and has never been made Jewish in print or on screen. There are\, nevertheless\, numerous books\, articles\, podcasts and fan theories speculating that Superman is\, was\, and always has been Jewish. We will discuss what is at stake in arguing for or against the Jewishness of these characters\, and why Jewish identity has lagged behind many other minority identities in comics representation.
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/workshop-with-jennifer-caplan-for-jor-el-so-loved-the-world-jews-and-comic-books-from-superman-to-sabra/
LOCATION:Lubar Entrepreneurship Center\, Nicholas Innovation Commons (Room 105)
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Caplan\, "Funny\, You Don't Look Funny: Jews\, Comedy\, and Gender"
DESCRIPTION:Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture  \nGolda Meir Library\, 4th Floor or via Zoom (Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE) \nThis talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically “counted” Jewish engagement in the late 20th and 21st centuries and uses those trends to argue that American Judaism looks healthier and more robust if we think differently about engagement. Humor\, it turns out\, is not only a valid way to approach this revisioning\, but also one of the best ways to highlight positive trends in American Jewish identification. Rather than relying on older “continuity-based” models of what Judaism needs to do to survive that put disproportionate pressure (and blame) on Jewish women\, acontemporary Jewish humor reimagines many aspects of Jewish life—including Jewish gender tropes—and offers younger generations a vision of Jewishness they want to embrace. \nJennifer Caplan is The Jewish Foundation Chair of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Funny\, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Comedy from the Silent Generation to Millennials (2023) and co-editor of Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor (2026). She publishes broadly on Judaism and popular culture with a focus on gender and representation and is currently working on Unmasked: Jewish Characters in DC and Marvel. \nMade by possible by the generosity of the Taxman and Temkin families.\nCosponsored by UWM’s Departments of English and Women’s and Gender Studies.
URL:https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/jennifer-caplan-funny-you-dont-look-funny-jews-comedy-and-gender/
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