The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies has two online events in April: one featuring Elizabeth R. Baer, left, and the other featuring Shira Klein.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will present two webinar events in April, featuring speakers Shira Klein on April 7 and Elizabeth R. Baer on April 16.
Both events are free and open to the public, and registration is requested.
Shira Klein
Klein, associate professor and chair of the History Department at Chapman University, will present “The Jews of Italy in WWII" at noon Monday, April 7, via webinar.
Klein’s work focuses on historical and current antisemitism. Her book, “Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism,” was a finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and has also been published in Hebrew. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, USC Shoah Foundation, and the Barbieri Endowment. She is also a scholar-activist, and co-founder of Academics for Peace.
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Elizabeth R. Baer
Baer will present “Genocide in Africa and the Third Reich: Imperialism, Race, and Sexual Violence” at noon Wednesday, April 16, via webinar.
Baer serves as research professor of English and African studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota and recently completed eight years working with the office of the senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Baer’s key publications include “The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich,” “The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction,” and ”Experience and Expression: Women, Nazis, and the Holocaust.” Her current research focuses on textile history, including a chapter on a green sweater worn by a girl hiding from the Nazis in the sewers of Lvov, Poland.
