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Packer), Lehigh University Film, The Last Days, directed by James Moll Produced by June Beallor, Kenneth Lipper, Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, this powerful documentary chronicles the devastation of Hungarian Jewry by the Nazis. Five survivors of the Holocaust, all prominent and now living in the U.S., return to the land of their birth. Taking their children and grandchildren with them, they visit homes unseen for fifty years and the locations of their nightmares--Auschwitz and Berkenow. The most prominent of the five is U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, who was part of the Jewish underground in Hungary. Another is artist Alice Lok Cahana, who paints as a way to memorialize the dead of the Holocaust. Cahana will speak at the Berman Center's May 2000 conference, "Representing the Holocaust." "It's odd how a Holocaust documentary can end up as an uplifting experience, but The Last Days does indeed leave you marveling at the resilience of humanity, even--and especially--at its darkest hour."--Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News Admission free. Tickets available at the door or in advance by calling the Jewish Community Center at 610 435-3571 or the Berman Center at 610 758-4869. Cosponsored by the Allentown Jewish Community Center's Jewish and Israeli Film Series 2000, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and the Berman Center for Jewish Studies. February 15, 3:45 p.m. Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University "Holocaust Project" Preview for Teachers Speakers: Professors Ricardo Viera and Laurence Silberstein For reservations call Pat McAndrew, LU Art Galleries, at 610 758-6881. February 17, 4:15 p.m. Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Lucy Gans, Dept. of Art and Architecture, Lehigh University, "Judy Chicago's 'Contested Territories': From the Dinner Party to the Holocaust Project" In her lecture, Professor Gans will discuss issues of representation in Judy Chicago's work--from her symbolic representation of women's history in the Dinner Party to her feminist representation of the Holocaust within the larger global framework in the Holocaust Project . Gans will focus on and explain the images in the Holocaust Project that clearly derive from Chicago's feminist tradition. February 24, 4:15 p.m. Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Chaim Kaufmann, Dept. of International Relations, Lehigh University, "The Long-Run Consequences of Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns" "Ethnic cleansing" campaigns are unfortunately quite common. There have been more than one hundred major ones since 1900. In his lecture, Dr. Kaufmann will discuss the long-term consequencers of these campaigns. Although the government or majority ethnic groups responsible for the cleansing often later softens its attitudes and policies towards the victim group on some issues, the one issue on which they hardly ever yield is return of any significant fraction of the refugees. Despite this, roughly half of such "cleansed" groups remain politically or militarily mobilized to press for return or re-conquest for up to several decades after the initial flight of refugees. According to Kaufmann, if we understood why certain groups accept the fact of displacement while others do not, it might help design solutions to some ethnic wars. February 26, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Children's Guided Tour of "Holocaust Project" For ages 12 and up with adult Registration: 610 758-3615 March 2, 4:15 p.m. Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Oren Baruch Stier, Dept. of Religious Studies, Florida International University, "The Holocaust Project(ion): Identity, Appropriation, and Judy Chicago" Judy Chicago's "Holocaust Project" is a controversial installation that challenges presumed notions of the propriety and comparability of Holocaust images. Moreover, the artist's own identity becomes such an integral part of the work that it is not always clear where one can draw the line separating Chicago from her creation. Dr. Stier will discuss these issues of identity, appropriation, and projection in Chicago's work and in the general context of Holocaust representation. He will pay particular attention to the implications for teaching about the Holocaust raised by Chicago's installation. Underwritten by the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation March 9, 4:15 p.m. Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Alice Eckardt, Professor Emerita of Religion Studies, Lehigh University, "Women in the Holocaust: Different Treatment? Different Response?" Usually the victims of the Nazi's "Final Solution" are spoken of and studied in the mass or , alternatively, as specific individuals. The question of gender is not generally considered. More recently some scholars have begun to seek answers to new questions: Were the number of women who died or were killed during the Holocaust greater or smaller than the number of men? Did more women or more men die in the ghettos? Did the Einsatzengruppen kill more women than men in their operations across Eastern? Were more women or men killed in the death camps? Other questions get more complicated: Did the Nazis view Jewish women in a different way than Jewish men? If so, what did that mean? What special problems did women have? What did women's role require of them? Did women respond differently than men in the ghettos and in the camps? Were there some situations where Jewish women were in a somewhat safer situation than men? Retired professor of religion Alice Eckardt, who taught Lehigh University's first course on the Holocaust and is known world-wide as a Holocaust scholar, will provide us with the results of current research on women in the Holocaust. March 12-14 Judy Chicago, Artist-in-Residence sponsored by the Berman Center for Jewish Studies, Lehigh's Women's Studies Program, and the NEH-Trustee Lecture Series on Tolerance March 12 - 5:00 p.m., Friends of Women's Studies Dinner honoring those who are "Making the World a Safer Place for Women" with special guest speaker, Judy Chicago Contact Women's Studies 610-758-5119 for information. March 13 - Student seminars on women in art conducted by Judy Chicago for studio art and theory classes March 14 - 7:45 p.m., Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center Lecture by Judy Chicago, creator of the Holocaust Project, "Representing the Holocaust: An Artist's Perspective" Judy Chicago will discuss the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light from the perspective of the aesthetic and philosophical challenges involved in representing the Holocaust. In her lecture, accompanied by slides, she will examine various artistic approaches to the Holocaust--those of survivors as well as other contemporary artists--and explain how she and her husband and collaborator, Donald Woodman, came to structure the exhibition as they did. Reception and booksigning to follow lecture. Exhibition will be open one hour prior to lecture. For information, call 610 758-4869. Ms. Chicago's lecture is part of the NEH-Trustee Lecture Series on Tolerance. March 30, 4:15 p.m. Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Robert L. Cohn, Philip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Studies, Lafayette College "Making Memories: Images of Polish-Jewish Life before the Holocaust" If, beginning in the 1970s, the "Holocaust" was named, defined, and focalized as an object of study for its own sake, in the late 1990s we witness various efforts to recontextualize the Holocaust in Jewish, European, or genocidal history. In particular, several recent studies seek to recreate the world of Polish Jews before the catastrophe lest the memory of that world be seen only through and limited to its tragic end. Dr. Cohn will compare how some of these works frame and construct the memory of the Jewish world in Poland before the Holocaust and what the consequences of that memorialization might be for Holocaust studies at the end of the millennium. April 2, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University Children's Guided Tour of "Holocaust Project" Exhibit For ages 12 and up with adult Registration: 610 758-3615 April 5, 4:15 p.m. Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University Laura Levitt, Religion Department, Temple University "Bringing the Holocaust Home: American Jews and the Work of Mourning" How do we engage with the past? What does it mean to take on a traumatic legacy and make it our own? Whose Holocaust is it anyway? By looking carefully at how Judy Chicago addresses these issues in "The Holocaust Project" exhibit, Dr. Levitt will ask how and in what ways Judy Chicago's approach echoes that of other American Jews, especially those with no direct links to individuals and communities destroyed in the Shoah. By addressing these issues in terms of mourning, Levitt will suggest in her lecture that Holocaust monuments, memorials, and museums also stand for other legacies of loss experienced by American Jews in the 20th century. Underwritten by the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. April 12, 7:00 p.m. Whitaker Lab Auditorium (5 E. Packer), Lehigh University Film and Discussion: "The Nazi Concentration Camps" Lacking all theatrical embellishment, this one-hour documentary was filmed by Army photographers when Allied soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camps in Western Germany near the end of World War II and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of slave labor and genocide. Panel discussion led by Dr. Patricia Turner, Professor of History, Lehigh University. Admission free. April 29, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University Children's Guided Tour of "Holocaust Project" Exhibit For ages 12 and up with adult Registration: 610 758-3615 May 21, 1:00 p.m., thru May 23, 5:00 p.m. Berman Center Conference, Lehigh University Representing the Holocaust: Practices, Products, Projections Registration required. May 21, 8:00 p.m. Lecture, Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh "What's Special about Representing the Holocaust?" by Dr. Peter Novick, Professor of History, University of Chicago, author of The Holocaust in American Life. Underwritten by Geraldine and Irving Schaffer '31. May 22, 8:00 p.m. Lecture, Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh "Maus: Packing Memory into Little Boxes" by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus I: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. Underwritten by the Paul Levy Fund for Jewish Studies in Honor of Dr. Jack DeBellis and the E. Franklin Robbins Fund in Jewish Studies. Return to top of document *Spring 2000 courses with modules on the Holocaust Project* Department of Art and Architecture Art/Women's Studies 121 - Women in Art: Emphasis on Judy Chicago and the Feminist Movement, Lucy Gans Department of English English 2 - Composition and Literature "Resisting Silence and Erasure: How Americans Remember the Holocaust," Miriamne Ara Krummel Department of History History 12 - Survey of Europe since 1648, Patricia Turner History 43 - United States since 1939, John Pettegrew Freshman Seminar - Naziism and the Holocaust, Michael Baylor Department of International Relations International Relations 34 - Society, Technology and War, Chaim Kaufmann Department of Modern Languages and Literature German 165 - Introduction to German Literature, Vera Stegmann Department of Philosophy Philosophy 116 - Bioethics, Robin Dillon Philosophy 235 - 20th Century in Philosophical Perspective: War and Genocide, Alex Levine Department of Religion Studies Religion 144 - Shamans, Mystics, Artists, Norman Girardot Religion 155 - Jewish Responses to the Holocaust, Laurence Silberstein Department of Theatre Africana Studies/Theatre 196 - Building Bridges, A Prejudice Reduction Workshop and Performance, Jennie Gilrain Women's Studies Program Women's Studies 101 - Introduction to Women's Studies, Dawn Keetley Lafayette College and Allentown College Jewish Responses to Catastrophe, Robert Cohn, Berman Professor of Jewish Studies at Lafayette College Lafayette College College Writing: "The Other," Ruth Setton Return to top of document *Outreach programs for middle and high schools* Visits to "The Holocaust Project" exhibit by high school and middle school (age 13 and above) groups are encouraged. Teachers may call the LU Art Galleries at 610 758-6881 to arrange for a class tour of the exhibit. Teacher's guides are available by calling the Berman Center at 610 758-4869 or e-mailing inber@lehigh.edu. Return to top of document

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THE HOLOCAUST
Critical Reflections on Modernity
in the Year 2000

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Public educational and cultural events at Lehigh
Spring 2000 Lehigh courses with modules on the Holocaust Project

Outreach programs for middle and secondary schools

Public educational and cultural events

February 9-June 11
Exhibition, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light
by Judy Chicago, with photography by Donald Woodman
Underwritten by Shelley & Max Stettner '46 and the Snider Foundation.

February 10, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Opening Reception, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light
with opening remarks by artists Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman

February-May
Book Display, Linderman Library Lobby, Lehigh University
"Reflections of the Holocaust in Art and Literature"

February 12, 8:00 p.m.
Whitaker Lab Auditorium (5 E. Packer), Lehigh University
Film, The Last Days, directed by James Moll
Produced by June Beallor, Kenneth Lipper, Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, this powerful documentary chronicles the devastation of Hungarian Jewry by the Nazis. Five survivors of the Holocaust, all prominent and now living in the U.S., return to the land of their birth. Taking their children and grandchildren with them, they visit homes unseen for fifty years and the locations of their nightmares--Auschwitz and Berkenow. The most prominent of the five is U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, who was part of the Jewish underground in Hungary. Another is artist Alice Lok Cahana, who paints as a way to memorialize the dead of the Holocaust. Cahana will speak at the Berman Center's May 2000 conference, "Representing the Holocaust."
"It's odd how a Holocaust documentary can end up as an uplifting experience, but The Last Days does indeed leave you marveling at the resilience of humanity, even--and especially--at its darkest hour."--Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
Admission free. Tickets available at the door or in advance by calling the Jewish Community Center at 610 435-3571 or the Berman Center at 610 758-4869. Cosponsored by the Allentown Jewish Community Center's Jewish and Israeli Film Series 2000, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and the Berman Center for Jewish Studies.

February 15, 3:45 p.m.
Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
"Holocaust Project" Preview for Teachers
Speakers: Professors Ricardo Viera and Laurence Silberstein
For reservations call Pat McAndrew, LU Art Galleries, at 610 758-6881.

February 17, 4:15 p.m.
Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
Lucy Gans, Dept. of Art and Architecture, Lehigh University, "Judy Chicago's 'Contested Territories': From the Dinner Party to the Holocaust Project"
In her lecture, Professor Gans will discuss issues of representation in Judy Chicago's work--from her symbolic representation of women's history in the Dinner Party to her feminist representation of the Holocaust within the larger global framework in the Holocaust Project . Gans will focus on and explain the images in the Holocaust Project that clearly derive from Chicago's feminist tradition.

February 24, 4:15 p.m.
Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
Chaim Kaufmann, Dept. of International Relations, Lehigh University, "The Long-Run Consequences of Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns"
"Ethnic cleansing" campaigns are unfortunately quite common. There have been more than one hundred major ones since 1900. In his lecture, Dr. Kaufmann will discuss the long-term consequencers of these campaigns. Although the government or majority ethnic groups responsible for the cleansing often later softens its attitudes and policies towards the victim group on some issues, the one issue on which they hardly ever yield is return of any significant fraction of the refugees. Despite this, roughly half of such "cleansed" groups remain politically or militarily mobilized to press for return or re-conquest for up to several decades after the initial flight of refugees. According to Kaufmann, if we understood why certain groups accept the fact of displacement while others do not, it might help design solutions to some ethnic wars.

February 26, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
Children's Guided Tour of "Holocaust Project"
For ages 12 and up with adult
Registration: 610 758-3615

March 2, 4:15 p.m.
Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
Oren Baruch Stier, Dept. of Religious Studies, Florida International University, "The Holocaust Project(ion): Identity, Appropriation, and Judy Chicago"
Judy Chicago's "Holocaust Project" is a controversial installation that challenges presumed notions of the propriety and comparability of Holocaust images. Moreover, the artist's own identity becomes such an integral part of the work that it is not always clear where one can draw the line separating Chicago from her creation. Dr. Stier will discuss these issues of identity, appropriation, and projection in Chicago's work and in the general context of Holocaust representation. He will pay particular attention to the implications for teaching about the Holocaust raised by Chicago's installation.
Underwritten by the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation

March 9, 4:15 p.m.
Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
Alice Eckardt, Professor Emerita of Religion Studies, Lehigh University, "Women in the Holocaust: Different Treatment? Different Response?"
Usually the victims of the Nazi's "Final Solution" are spoken of and studied in the mass or , alternatively, as specific individuals. The question of gender is not generally considered. More recently some scholars have begun to seek answers to new questions: Were the number of women who died or were killed during the Holocaust greater or smaller than the number of men? Did more women or more men die in the ghettos? Did the Einsatzengruppen kill more women than men in their operations across Eastern? Were more women or men killed in the death camps?

Other questions get more complicated: Did the Nazis view Jewish women in a different way than Jewish men? If so, what did that mean? What special problems did women have? What did women's role require of them? Did women respond differently than men in the ghettos and in the camps? Were there some situations where Jewish women were in a somewhat safer situation than men? Retired professor of religion Alice Eckardt, who taught Lehigh University's first course on the Holocaust and is known world-wide as a Holocaust scholar, will provide us with the results of current research on women in the Holocaust.

March 12-14
Judy Chicago, Artist-in-Residence
sponsored by the Berman Center for Jewish Studies,
Lehigh's Women's Studies Program,
and the NEH-Trustee Lecture Series on Tolerance

March 12 - 5:00 p.m., Friends of Women's Studies Dinner honoring those who are "Making the World a Safer Place for Women" with special guest speaker, Judy Chicago
Contact Women's Studies 610-758-5119 for information.

March 13 - Student seminars on women in art conducted by Judy Chicago for studio art and theory classes

March 14 - 7:45 p.m., Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center
Lecture by Judy Chicago, creator of the Holocaust Project, "Representing the Holocaust: An Artist's Perspective"
Judy Chicago will discuss the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light from the perspective of the aesthetic and philosophical challenges involved in representing the Holocaust. In her lecture, accompanied by slides, she will examine various artistic approaches to the Holocaust--those of survivors as well as other contemporary artists--and explain how she and her husband and collaborator, Donald Woodman, came to structure the exhibition as they did. Reception and booksigning to follow lecture. Exhibition will be open one hour prior to lecture. For information, call 610 758-4869.
Ms. Chicago's lecture is part of the NEH-Trustee Lecture Series on Tolerance.

March 30, 4:15 p.m.
Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
Robert L. Cohn, Philip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Studies, Lafayette College
"Making Memories: Images of Polish-Jewish Life before the Holocaust"
If, beginning in the 1970s, the "Holocaust" was named, defined, and focalized as an object of study for its own sake, in the late 1990s we witness various efforts to recontextualize the Holocaust in Jewish, European, or genocidal history. In particular, several recent studies seek to recreate the world of Polish Jews before the catastrophe lest the memory of that world be seen only through and limited to its tragic end. Dr. Cohn will compare how some of these works frame and construct the memory of the Jewish world in Poland before the Holocaust and what the consequences of that memorialization might be for Holocaust studies at the end of the millennium.

April 2, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
Children's Guided Tour of "Holocaust Project" Exhibit
For ages 12 and up with adult
Registration: 610 758-3615

April 5, 4:15 p.m.
Gallery Lecture, Zoellner Main Gallery, Lehigh University
Laura Levitt, Religion Department, Temple University
"Bringing the Holocaust Home: American Jews and the Work of Mourning"
How do we engage with the past? What does it mean to take on a traumatic legacy and make it our own? Whose Holocaust is it anyway? By looking carefully at how Judy Chicago addresses these issues in "The Holocaust Project" exhibit, Dr. Levitt will ask how and in what ways Judy Chicago's approach echoes that of other American Jews, especially those with no direct links to individuals and communities destroyed in the Shoah. By addressing these issues in terms of mourning, Levitt will suggest in her lecture that Holocaust monuments, memorials, and museums also stand for other legacies of loss experienced by American Jews in the 20th century. Underwritten by the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.

April 12, 7:00 p.m.
Whitaker Lab Auditorium (5 E. Packer), Lehigh University
Film and Discussion: "The Nazi Concentration Camps"
Lacking all theatrical embellishment, this one-hour documentary was filmed by Army photographers when Allied soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camps in Western Germany near the end of World War II and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of slave labor and genocide. Panel discussion led by Dr. Patricia Turner, Professor of History, Lehigh University. Admission free.

April 29, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University
Children's Guided Tour of "Holocaust Project" Exhibit
For ages 12 and up with adult
Registration: 610 758-3615

May 21, 1:00 p.m., thru May 23, 5:00 p.m.
Berman Center Conference, Lehigh University
Representing the Holocaust:
Practices, Products, Projections
Registration required.

May 21, 8:00 p.m.
Lecture, Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh
"What's Special about Representing the Holocaust?" by Dr. Peter Novick, Professor of History, University of Chicago, author of The Holocaust in American Life. Underwritten by Geraldine and Irving Schaffer '31.

May 22, 8:00 p.m.
Lecture, Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh
"Maus: Packing Memory into Little Boxes" by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus I: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. Underwritten by the Paul Levy Fund for Jewish Studies in Honor of Dr. Jack DeBellis and the E. Franklin Robbins Fund in Jewish Studies.

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Spring 2000 courses with modules on the Holocaust Project

Department of Art and Architecture
Art/Women's Studies 121 - Women in Art: Emphasis on Judy Chicago and the Feminist Movement, Lucy Gans

Department of English
English 2 - Composition and Literature
"Resisting Silence and Erasure: How Americans Remember the Holocaust," Miriamne Ara Krummel

Department of History
History 12 - Survey of Europe since 1648, Patricia Turner
History 43 - United States since 1939, John Pettegrew
Freshman Seminar - Naziism and the Holocaust, Michael Baylor

Department of International Relations
International Relations 34 - Society, Technology and War, Chaim Kaufmann

Department of Modern Languages and Literature
German 165 - Introduction to German Literature, Vera Stegmann

Department of Philosophy
Philosophy 116 - Bioethics, Robin Dillon
Philosophy 235 - 20th Century in Philosophical Perspective: War and Genocide, Alex Levine

Department of Religion Studies
Religion 144 - Shamans, Mystics, Artists, Norman Girardot
Religion 155 - Jewish Responses to the Holocaust, Laurence Silberstein

Department of Theatre
Africana Studies/Theatre 196 - Building Bridges, A Prejudice Reduction Workshop and Performance, Jennie Gilrain

Women's Studies Program
Women's Studies 101 - Introduction to Women's Studies, Dawn Keetley

Lafayette College and Allentown College
Jewish Responses to Catastrophe, Robert Cohn, Berman Professor of Jewish Studies at Lafayette College

Lafayette College
College Writing: "The Other," Ruth Setton

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Outreach programs for middle and high schools

Visits to "The Holocaust Project" exhibit by high school and middle school (age 13 and above) groups are encouraged. Teachers may call the LU Art Galleries at 610 758-6881 to arrange for a class tour of the exhibit. Teacher's guides are available by calling the Berman Center at 610 758-4869 or e-mailing inber@lehigh.edu.

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