Chapman University’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education has planned two days of special programs to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the violent November night in 1938 that became a turning point in Nazi anti-Jewish policy. Four Holocaust survivors and Kristallnacht witnesses will share their memories in a panel titled “Four Perspectives on Kristallnacht: 75
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 4 p.m. The Rodgers Center presents, Dr. Alan Rosen, Author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder in Beckman Hall, Room 404. In this lecture, Dr. Alan Rosen will explore Boder’s special contribution to Holocaust memory. Dr. Rosen is the author of Sounds
Earlier this week we at Chapman University celebrated the news that Dr. François Englert, Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence and founding member of Chapman’s Institute for Quantum Studies, had received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is a person who has accomplished the truly extraordinary–and he is also a child survivor of the Holocaust. I
Recently, Assistant Professor of History , Alex Bay, published his book Beriberi In Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease. A book about modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) becoming a public health problem that cuts across all social boundaries, afflicting the Meiji Emperor. David Arnold, author of Colonizing the Body had this
Chapman University History and Religious Studies Professor Marilyn J. Harran will be at the Leatherby Libraries booth at the Big Orange Book Festival to sign the book authored by the late Leon Leyson, to which she and Elisabeth Leyson contributed. The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible … on Schindler’s list,
White (Weiße) Rose Exhibit Chapman University’s Department of World Languages and Cultures is proud to present the White Rose Exhibit, a chronicle of a non-violent student resistance movement against the Nazi regime, October 1 – October 30, 2013 on the first floor of Argyros Forum. In June of 1942 a group of German university
You are invited to a lecture on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 4 p.m. in Wallace All Faiths Chapel to hear Dr. David Crowe’s lecture, “The Unknown Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of the Roma During the Shoah.” Dr. David Crowe is one of the world’s foremost scholars of the Roma. In 2007, he published the second
The 5th Annual Chapman Day of Service is on October 4, 2013 and they are looking for faculty, students, staff, and alumni from every department this year. Chapman Day of Service is an amazing opportunity to build connections with local organizations, as well as a chance to strengthen and create bonds with the rest of
The first scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) show a man lay out his fine clothing, carefully select a tie, and embellish his suit with a Nazi Party lapel pin. The viewer soon discovers that this is Oskar Schindler, not only a Nazi but an opportunist, a businessman with questionable ethics, and a notorious
In this groundbreaking lecture on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 (7 p.m., Wallace All Faiths Chapel), Professor David Crowe explores the intersection among Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who became a rescuer; Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish émigré lawyer from Poland who worked tirelessly to promote the concept of genocide; and Amon Goeth, the sadistic Nazi