“History in the House of the Hangman: How Postwar Germany Became a Key Site for the Study of Jewish History”
Monday, Sept. 25
7:00 pm
Blue Ridge Ballroom 201 AB
Plemmons Student Union (2nd floor)
On Monday, Sept. 25, the ASU and broader communities are invited to a public lecture by Prof. Till van Rahden, a renowned specialist in the history of German Jewry. The talk by Prof. van Rahden, who holds the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies at the Université de Montréal, is entitled "History in the House of the Hangman: How Postwar Germany Became a Key Site for the Study of Jewish History." It will begin at 7:00 pm in the Blue Ridge Ballroom 201 AB, Plemmons Student Union's Summit (2nd floor). His lecture is also part of the programming for the "Jewish Life in Germany Today" exhibition that is currently on display at Plemmons Student Union (first floor).
Prof. Till van Rahden works on European history, including Jewish history, since the Enlightenment and is interested in the tension between the elusive promise of democratic equality and the recurrent presence of diversity and moral conflicts. He holds an M.A. in American history from Johns Hopkins University and PhD in history from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. In 2017, he is based at the "Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften" in Bad Homburg, Germany, as a senior research fellow. Van Rahden is the author of the award-winning Juden und andere Breslauer published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in 2000. Van Rahden has also co-edited Juden, Bürger, Deutsche: Zur Geschichte von Vielfalt und Differenz 1800-1933 (Tübingen, 2001), Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg (Göttingen, 2010), and Autorität: Krise, Konstruktion und Konjunktur (Paderborn, 2016). His most recent publications include the monograph Jews and other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925 (Madison, 2008) as well as essays in German History and the renowned Historische Zeitschrift.
For more information, contact the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at holocaust@appstate.edu or call 828.262.2311. Organized by the Center, the exhibit's and program's co-sponsors include ASU's Departments of History, Philosophy and Religion, and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the German Studies Program, the Office of International Education and Development, the Temple of the High Country, the local chapter of Hillel, and the German Consulate General in Atlanta, GA.