German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Legacies - Judith Gerson
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 28 Mar 2006 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Pioneer Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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She is the author of dozens of scholarly articles including "In Between States: National Identity Practices among German Jewish Immigrants" (Political Psychology, 2001). Her edited volume Deghettoizing the Holocaust: Lessons for the Study of Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory will be published later this year (with Diane Wolf, Duke University Press, forthcoming). She received her B.A. in Sociology from Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. For her "Life Reborn" Fellowship for Research on Displaced Persons, Professor Gerson will conduct research on her project, "'By Thanksgiving We Were Americans': Hidden Legacies of the Holocaust among German Jewish Immigrants."
During her nine months tenure at the Center, Professor Gerson will conduct research on the lives of German-Jewish immigrants who fled Nazi Germany before November 1941 and arrived in the United States by May 1945. She is particularly interested in survivor testimonies and memoirs to gain an understanding of how the Holocaust and resettlement in the United States shaped German-Jewish immigrants' lives. Professor Gerson will be in residence at the Center through May 31, 2006.
At Rutgers, she teaches courses in the sociology of gender and feminist theories. Her primary areas of interest include the sociology of gender, work, identities, and contemporary social theory. Stemming in part from her interests in feminist theories of identity, recently she has initiated an interdisciplinary study of German Jewish immigrant identities, which focuses on identity practices among German Jews who settled in New York City between 1933 and 1945.