American University Jewish Studies Program

04/14/2024

Just how different was antisemitism in America.? I discuss this and other topics with Hari Sreenivsan for the PBS/WNET Exploring Hate series "Dialogue for Change."

Are we witnessing the "high tide” of American antisemitism? Professor, writer, and American Jewish historian Pamela Nadell says the explosion of vitriol Are we witnessing the "high tide” of American antisemitism? Professor, writer, and American Jewish historian Pamela Nadell says the explosion o...

01/17/2023

AU Jewish Studies Program presents our Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Acts of Remembrance: Shaping Holocaust Memory in the Twenty-First Century. Our first speaker is Ruth Franklin, esteemed book critic and author, who will be discussing her new biography of Anne Frank. This event will be held virtually on February 1, 2023, at 1:00pm EST. Follow the link below to register!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ruth-franklin-anne-frank-a-life-tickets-514504064507

08/31/2022

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Julie Keresztes to American University as the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. Read more about Dr. Keresztes and her work below!

Dr. Julie Keresztes is a historian of modern Germany who specializes in the Third Reich and the Holocaust. She is the 2022-2024 American University and Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. She previously taught at Tufts University from 2020 to 2022. Keresztes received her Ph.D. with distinction in History from Boston University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the German Historical Institute, the Leo Baeck Institute, the American Academy for Jewish Research, and the Central European History Society. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on photography in N**i Germany, and is working on a critical biography of Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler’s personal photographer. Her work has also appeared in the journal German History. Keresztes will teach HIST419/619: The Holocaust at American University this fall.