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The Video Generation Identity UK and Ireland: Reconquista

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The Video Generation Identity UK and Ireland: Reconquista

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-- Here Yvonne talked about the ways in which pop culture music. in this case from the film Anomaly, is used to influence a feeling with the video.

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Other resources that may be helpful to better understand FASHWAVE: 

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https://www.vice.com/de/article/mgwk7b/trumpwave-und-fashwave

https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7jw7v/fashwave-neo-nazi-music

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ypnwn5/trumpwave-and-fashwave-are-just-the-latest-disturbing-examples-of-the-far-right-appropriating-electronic-music

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Are there signs that I could recognise as a teacher, if my students are listening to Rechtsextremismus  music?

Here it could be key to look for signs of their language and/or looking for the names of the bands they listen to. This could be key into learning more about what the band is singing, and what your students are listening to.

The Video von Generation Identity or some of the other materials shared in the PowerPoint make it very difficult to teach, because of the meaning behind them. How can I use these in my lessons?

The best thing to do is to talk to parents, the school principle and of course students. It should be explained, that these resources are being used for educational purposes only. The symbols and videos are allowed to be shown in lessons, so long they are used to educational purposes.

Trump received 74 Million votes. Obviously here is some meaning behind this and it is scary. Would you say that videos such as the one shown are a reason for the Trumps success?
If you look at the election, you will see a lot of very right propaganda used by Trump. However these materials were also there before the election. You can see them in early 2015. Although Trump used some of this material, it doesn't mean that all Trump voters are richt extremists. There are also many single issue voters, that see another issue as more important and don't give as much importance to other issues.

Would you or have you visited schools to talk about these important issues?

I have, but not much but would. There are however lots of great materials that can be used in classroom already.

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Karolin Schwarz, Hasskrieger. Der neue globale Rechtsextremismus. - --->Zu beziehen über die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

https://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/313705/hasskrieger

Heinrich Detering: Was heißt hier "wir"? Erscheinen bei Reclam -- inside, kurze Analyse des Sprachgebrauchs der AfD

Instagram: junge Influencerinnen, die AfD- nah sind und es ist nur anhand der Hashtags zu erkennen, z. B.

https://www.instagram.com/germanyspride/?igshid=2b5yvog64zj9

In regard to football:  https://worldfootballindex.com/2020/06/fascism-in-football-the-ugly-side-of-the-beautiful-game/
--> with lots of additional resources: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/football-hooligan

Potential program for a local network of schools looking to work against racism together:
https://www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org

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More information on the PBS documentary on Jewish refugees in Shanghai can be found here

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More information on the PBS documentary on Jewish refugees in Shanghai can be found here

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https://www.pbs.org/show/harbor-holocaust/

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https://www.meetajew.de

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https://www.groebziger-synagoge.de

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The link to the Radio Theatre Play: "The Singer of Shanghai"

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The link to the Radio Theatre Play: "The Singer of Shanghai"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItmM5qqL-hI

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Arolsen Archives is an additional  interesting hands - on project for students to document Jewish, but also many other Nazi persecutions.

https://zweitzeugen.de

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Possible Themes: personal memoir, generational trauma, third generation perspective

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Possible Themes: fictionalising personal Memoir, young refugees, forced emigration, creating empathy and understanding

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Possible themes:  fictionalizing personal memoir; heritage and generational trauma; creating empathy and understanding

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Possible themes: questions of identity; confronting stereotypes; countering hate

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Bring your own ideas and materials

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For more information about the Jewish immigration to the United States:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/immigration-to-the-united-states-1933-41

For more information on the bureaucratic walls, see David. S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: American and the Holocaust 1941- 1945.

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Flüchtingspolitik der USA im 2. Weltkrieg.

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more literature, stories and facts: https://remember.org

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more literature, stories and facts: https://remember.org

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e.g.
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When asked about his work as a channel for his experiences, Peter explained that because of his parents’ experience as survivors of the Holocaust, he often felt as though he had no right to his own experience. He carries the burden of his parents‘ past and channels those stories and voices of characters like a prayer to no God.

Can you talk a bit about autobiography and fiction? how much of "you" is in these stories? How much is the collective memory part of your stories?

Peter's fiction is fiction. He takes moments from his life and twists them around. However, he wouldn't describe his work as autobiographical - except in their tone of angst.

The permanent repetition of breaking glass, bones, mirrors...reminds me of the Reichskristallnacht. is this intended or does it "just comes out of you“?

"Ich bin davon voellig besessen." Peter goes on to explain how the Pogromnacht and other horrors of the Holocaust seep into a lot of his work. While he hopes it isn't the focus of every story, it certainly plays a role in his writing.

Thank you for a very impressive and moving reading. Could you please describe the values you taught your son?

Good or bad is not always a question of black and white. It is rather grey.

Question for Peter, You mentioned that your parents refused to stop speaking German when they emigrated, which would mean forfeiting a fundamental facet of their identity. And so you’ve already spoken a bit about this, but I’d love to hear more about what significance German-speaking has for you and its role in your work.
Here, Peter explained that he has a private theory of left and right-hand consciousness. He associates his German with his left-hand consciousness and describes it as an idiosyncratic German. When he speaks German he is brought back to his childhood. The certainty that he experiences in life as his adult-self is balanced out when he taps into his child-like consciousness, inspired by his German.

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-Jewish-American literature doesn’t express identity but relations to identity
-literature on immigration, coming to the US, going abroad
-What are authors writing today? Three book recommendations: The History of Love, Everything is Illuminated, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

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 Graphic essay (Kurzweil) to work with if book is not available:

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99 Problems

Amy Kurzweil's memoir about her grandmother released this month, just in time for the election. Flying Couch " exposes the complicated and powerful ways we are shaped by the histories and relationships that anchor us," writes Tahneer Oksman. Go buy it from your local indie bookstore.

P.S. Bubbe is now voting for Hillary.

"Home of the Free" is co-published with Narrative.ly

Tags: Amy Kurzweil, baby pressure, Bernie Sanders, Clinton, Comics, grandmother, graphic memoir, Hillary Clinton, history, Holocaust, I'm with her, Imwithher, Jewish, Make America Great Again, My Grandmother is voting for Trump, Narrative.ly, not ready to have a baby, Nursing home, politics, Trump

About the Author

Amy Kurzweil

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HOME OF THE FREE: Confessions from My Bubbe's America by AMY KURZWEIL - Mutha Magazine

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Amy Kurzweil's memoir about her grandmother released this month, just in time for the election. Flying Couch "exposes the complicated and powerful ways we are shaped by the histories and relationships that anchor us," writes Tahneer Oksman. Go buy it from your local indie bookstore. P.S. Bubbe is now voting for Hillary.

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Nora Krug, A Light We Cannot See

NYT Book Review (copied from Nora Krug‘s website)

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Nora Krug, A Light We Cannot See (NYT Book review- copied from N. Krug's website)

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Book Trailer "Flying Couch" by Amy Kurzweil

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Book Trailer "Flying Couch" by Amy Kurzweil

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“Who I am as a German” (24:27)

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Nora Krug Interview: Who I Am as a German

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Three questions for Peter Wortsman (3:38):

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Three questions for Peter Wortsman (3:38):

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Brief reading Peter Wortsman (U.S. Embassy Lit. Series 2019; 9:46)

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Brief reading Peter Wortsman (U.S. Embassy Lit. Series 2019; 9:46)

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Peter Wortsman Reads from his Book, Stimme und Atem - Out of Breath, Out of Mind.

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Stories Peter (planned to) read from at the TA:

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Stories Peter (planned to) read from at the TA:

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Family Members

The Landing Mirror

Falling

Out of Breath, Out of Mind

Cry, Iced Killers!

Broken

I Was Once an Idealist

After the Storm

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Tagesspiegel Interview  (17.12.2019): Witz als Waffe. Wie wir Juden den grassierenden Antisemitismus erleben

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Tagesspiegel Interview  (17.12.2019): Witz als Waffe. Wie wir Juden den grassierenden Antisemitismus erleben

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Antisemitismus. Das Wort klingt altmodisch, als ob es auf eine Krankheit wie Tuberkulose oder Paludismus Bezug nähme, die man für immer geheilt glaubte, der man nun aber überrascht zu Anfang des 21. Jahrhundert begegnet. Leider gibt es anscheinend immer noch keinen wirksamen Impfstoff dagegen.

Als in New York geborener Schriftsteller, Sohn von Flüchtlingen, die wegen ihrer jüdischen Abstammung von den Nazis aus ihrer Heimatsstadt Wien vertrieben wurden, fühle ich mich jedoch gezwungen, mir darüber Gedanken zu machen.

Über die Jahrhunderte verantwortlich gemacht für Monotheismus, Messianismus, Rationalismus, Relativismus, Materialismus, Internationalismus, Individualismus, Pluralismus, Kapitalismus, Sozialismus, Kommunismus, Zionismus, und Gott weiß noch welchen verbindenden Ismus zwischen Himmel und Erde - manchmal fühle ich mich ausgesprochen stolz auf all das, was wir Juden in die Welt getragen haben sollen.

Vielleicht ist das auch der Hauptgrund für das Andauern der Antipathie. Statt dass wir den Schwanz einziehen und uns entschuldigen, bleiben wir trotzig, stellen unsere angeblichen Sünden als Errungenschaften zur Schau, schlagen, wenn möglich, noch Profit daraus, oder leiten mindestens einen Witz daraus ab.

Man dachte Antisemitismus sei ein Anachronismus...

1973. Freiburg im Breisgau. Als Fulbright-Stipendiat verbringe ich ein glückliches Jahr an der Albert Ludwig Universität, wo ich deutsche Märchen studiere und sonntags im Schwarzwald spazieren gehe. Eines Tages treffe ich auf einen Tisch vor der Uni, besetzt von einem blonden Studenten. Neben Propagandaschriften verschiedener Art und Thematik gibt es ein „How to"-Cartoon, wie man einen Davidsstern in ein Hakenkreuz verwandelt. Vermutlich geht es um Kritik an Israel, doch fehlt jegliche verbale Erklärung.

„Sie haben kein Recht, hier in diesem Land mit seiner dunklen Vergangenheit solch eine Verleumdung zu verbreiten", beklage ich mich. Der blondhaarige Student reagiert mit starrem Blick. „Mein Vater war zwar in der SS", sagt er achselzuckend. „Aber was habe ich mit diesen dreckigen Sachen zu tun? Lass mich gefälligst mit all dem in Ruhe!" Ich zittere vor Empörung.

Kurz danach besucht mich mein Vater. Wir gehen abends in der Freiburger Altstadt spazieren. Plötzlich wird ein Licht nach dem anderen in den Schaufenstern der Geschäfte ausgeschaltet. Mein Vater schaut mich an, zuckt mit den Achseln, und schüttelt den Kopf. „Antisemiten!", sagt er, und wir lachen uns tot.

Damals, knapp 28 Jahre nach dem Ende der Holocaust-Schrecken, stellte man sich vor, zumindest hier in Deutschland hätten die Menschen endlich eine Lehre aus der Vergangenheit gezogen und der Antisemitismus sei ein Anachronismus geworden. Es sei daher erlaubt, sich darüber auch ein wenig lustig zu machen. Ist dieser Luxus nach dem Anschlag von Halle vorbei?

...doch Antisemitismus ist wieder Mode

Laut einer Umfrage des Jüdischen Weltkongress von Juli 2019 hegt etwa ein Drittel aller Deutschen und 18 Prozent der als „gebildet" geltenden Bevölkerung antisemitische Gedanken: Dass die Juden zu viel über den Holocaust herumstänkern, dass sie zu viel Macht haben, dass sie für die meisten Kriege die Verantwortung tragen, auf gut Deutsch gesagt, dass diese Gauner immer noch an allem schuld sind.

Haben sie nicht selber mit dem jiddischen Begriff „Ganef" die etymologische Wurzel für „Gauner" geliefert? Nicht zu vergessen, dass „Chuzpe" und „Massel" gleichfalls aus dem Jiddischen kommen.

Reden wir also Tacheles: Ob der Antisemitismus von Seiten der AfD-Anhänger, von Rechtsextremisten, von manchen jungen Europäern oder von Einwanderern islamischen Glaubens kommt, die die Juden im Allgemeinen für den Nahostkonflikt und die Leiden ihrer palästinensischen Brüder verantwortlich machen - er ist wieder in Mode.
[Der Schriftsteller und Übersetzer Peter Wortsman, 1952 in New York geboren, hat in der Berliner Palm Art Press soeben den Band „Stimme und Atem - Out of Breath, Out of Mind" mit Prosa in deutscher und englischer Sprache veröffentlicht.]
Gerade mal 200 000 Juden leben heute in Deutschland

Als ich 1986 mit meiner Frau die Gedenkstätte KZ Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg besuchte, war ich erstaunt, die Texte der Ausstellung zu lesen. Nach Ansicht des DDR-Regimes waren die wirklichen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus die Kommunisten, und die Täter, die Faschisten, waren im Westen immer noch an der Macht. Von Juden, Behinderten, Roma und Sinti war nirgends die Rede.

Als wir in einer nahen Kantine ein Bier trinken und eine Wurst essen gehen, die einzigen erhältlichen Erfrischungen, glotzt ein betrunkener Mann mich, meine Frau, meinen Photoapparat und meine Levis Jeans bewundernd an und beschimpfte mich: „Du, Jüdisch-Faschist-Sozialist!" Er weiß wahrscheinlich selber nicht, was er damit meint.

Ungefähr 200 000 Juden leben heutzutage in Deutschland. Bei Weitem nicht genügend, um ihnen für alle Probleme die Schuld in die Schuhe zu schieben. Jeder leidenschaftliche Antisemit braucht aber seinen vertrauenswürdigen Juden, um sich an ihm abzuarbeiten. Wir Juden dagegen brauchen wie immer unseren Witz als Waffe - und zur Zeit Polizeischutz und eine schusssichere Weste.

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Wie wir Juden den grassierenden Antisemitismus erleben

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Antisemitismus. Das Wort klingt altmodisch, als ob es auf eine Krankheit wie Tuberkulose oder Paludismus Bezug nähme, die man für immer geheilt glaubte, der man nun aber überrascht zu Anfang des 21. Jahrhundert begegnet. Leider gibt es anscheinend immer noch keinen wirksamen Impfstoff dagegen.

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Video of Book Talk with publisher Stefan Weidle will be uploaded soon...

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Video of Book Talk with publisher Stefan Weidle will be uploaded soon...

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The Tribe by Tiffany Shlain (2005; 16:46)

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The Tribe by Tiffany Shlain (2005; 16:46)

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Tiffany Shlain Movies Tiffany Shlain TED Talk Tiffany Shlain the Tribe Tiffany Shlain Commencement Speech Connected Tiffany Shlain Shabbat AOL Tiffany Shlain and Television Interviews Moby Moxie Michael Krasny TED Books Film Cloud Jennie Livingston Laura Liswood Mensch Tiffany Shlain Tech Shabbat Yelp The Big O Book TEDxWomen Brain Power

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The Hebrew Mamita by Vanessa Hidary (2003) – Slam Poetry

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The Hebrew Mamita by Vanessa Hidary (2003) – Slam Poetry

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Module Content

Introduction

Introduction

"The Hebrew Mamita" is Vanessa Hidary's signature slam poetry piece. Hidary is a Sephardic-Ashkenazic American Jewish performer and writer whose work focuses on stereotypes of race and ethnicity. She consistently returns to a deceptively simple question: What does "Jewish" look like to you? This kit presents resources to help teachers teach the poem and Hidary's performance of it, so as to raise questions about Jewish identity, diversity, and cultural appropriation.

Resources

Reading and Background:

Vanessa Hidary's description of her background and work, as well as many videos of her performances, are available on her website.

For an introduction to slam poetry, see Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman's anthology Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (1994).

Hidary's poem was excerpted in The Tribe, Tiffany Shlain's short film about Jewish identity in the 21st century, which you can watch online.

The Forward published a Q&A with Hidary shortly after the publication of a "memoir anthology" of her poetry, The Last Kaiser Roll in the Bodega.

For more on the interplay between American Jews' identities and other American minority identities, see Jonathan Freedman's Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity, and especially Chapter 5, "Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos: Jewish-Hispanic Crossings and the Uses of Ethnicity."

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The Yiddish Book Center's Great Jewish Books Teacher Resources

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Introduction "The Hebrew Mamita" is Vanessa Hidary's signature slam poetry piece. Hidary is a Sephardic-Ashkenazic American Jewish performer and writer whose work focuses on stereotypes of race and ethnicity. She consistently returns to a deceptively simple question: What does "Jewish" look like to you?

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Kevin Ostoyich, The Singer of Shanghai (radio play performed May 12, 2020)

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Kevin Ostoyich, The Singer of Shanghai (radio play performed May 12, 2020)

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Historical Theatre: Shanghai Jewish Refugees

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Historical Theatre, Shanghai Jewish Refugees: The Singer of Shanghai

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Ostoyich: articles Articles published with AICGS on Memory Politics

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Ostoyich: articles Articles published with AICGS on Memory Politics

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Articles published with AICGS on Memory Politics:

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Articles published with AICGS on Memory Politics:

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https://www.aicgs.org/by-author/kevin-ostoyich/

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Prof. Kevin Ostoyich was a Visiting Fellow at AICGS in summer 2018 and was previously a Visiting Fellow at AICGS in summer 2017. He is Professor of History at Valparaiso University, where he served as the chair of the history department from 2015 to 2019. He holds his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to moving to Valparaiso, he taught at the University of Montana. He has served as a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School and an Erasmus Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He currently is an associate of the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Chicago, a board member of the Sino-Judaic Institute, and an inaugural member of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum International Advisory Board. He has published on German migration, German-American history, and the history of the Shanghai Jews.

While at AICGS, Prof. Ostoyich conducted research on his project, "The Wounds of History, the Wounds of Today: The Shanghai Jews and the Morality of Refugee Crises." The Shanghai Jews were refugees from Nazi Europe who found haven in Shanghai, and thus escaped the Holocaust. For this project Ostoyich has interviewed many former Shanghai Jewish refugees and has conducted research at the National Archives at College Park, MD, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. At Valparaiso University he co-teaches a course titled "Historical Theatre: The Shanghai Jews," which fuses the disciplines of history and theatre. To date, students of the course have co-written and performed two original productions based on the history of the Shanghai Jewish refugee community: Knocking on the Doors of History: The Shanghai Jews and Shanghai Carousel: What Tomorrow Will Be. In addition to his work on the Shanghai Jews, he is currently working on projects pertaining to the experiences of ordinary Germans during the bombing of Bremen, German Catholic experiences in nineteenth-century Württemberg, German Catholic migration, and U.S.-German cultural diplomacy during the first half of the twentieth century.

Click here for an article by Ostoyich on the Shanghai Jews.

He is currently trying to interview as many former Shanghailanders as possible. If you would like to be interviewed or know someone who might want to be interviewed, please contact Professor Ostoyich at kevin.ostoyich@valpo.edu.

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Prof. Kevin Ostoyich was a Visiting Fellow at AICGS in summer 2018 and was previously a Visiting Fellow at AICGS in summer 2017. He is Professor of History at Valparaiso University, where he served as the chair of the history department from 2015 to 2019. He holds his B.A.

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Check out the photographs posted on the Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections Facebook page

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Check out the photographs posted on the Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections Facebook page

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Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections

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Valparaiso University Archives & Special Collections

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Come see the new display outside the Archives--The White Rose Movement! Students from Prof. Ostoyich's class, History 317: Hitler and the Third Reich, created the exhibit to spread awareness about...

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https://www.culturestreet.org.uk/activities/superactioncomicmaker/

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https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

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https://www.culturestreet.org.uk/activities/superactioncomicmaker/

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Hat jemand Lust mit mir an einem lesson plan zu "The Boy in Striped Pajamas" zu arbeiten?

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Hat jemand Lust mit mir an einem lesson plan zu "The Boy in Striped Pajamas" zu arbeiten?

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anja.sturhahn@web.de