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Gendered Martyrdom: Orthodox Jewish Hagiographies of Holocaust Victims

Date:
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Location:
Boone Center
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Dr. Helene Sinnreich (University of Tennessee)
Intended Audience:
Students
Faculty
Open to Public

Professor Sinnreich is a scholar of Jewish experience during the Holocaust and European Jewry.  Dr. Sinnreich serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Jewish Identities (Johns Hopkins University Press).  Dr. Sinnreich She has served as a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. in 2007 and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in 2009. Her forthcoming book is entitled:The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos.