“The 1919 ‘Haggadah dela Gerra’ and the Myth of Ottoman Jewish Loyalty in World War I” “Global Conflict, Local Politics: The Jews of Salonica and the First World War” Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Brown University “The Social and Economic Impact of the First World War on Sephardi Women in Palestine” Michal ben Yaakov, Efrata College, Jerusalem “Between Refugees and the State: Hungarian Jews and Wartime Hungarian Refugee Policy” “Rescue and Representation: Jewish Home Front Activists in Russia’s Great War” “Confronting Mss Death: Philanthropy, Public Health, and Jewish Responses to Typhus in Poland, 1914-1921” “The Union of Jewish Soldiers between Ukrainian Nationalism and Soviet Internationism” “Brothers in Arms: WWI & the Case of Werner and GershomScholem” Mirjam Zadoff, Indiana University Bloomington Steven Schouten, Scientific Council for Government Policy, the Netherlands ‘How to be an “Exemplary Hero”: Jewish First World War Heroes and the Politics of Sacred Union in Wartime and Interwar France’ Monday, November 10 (for college faculty and students only)Įrin Corber, Indiana University/Bloomington Public interested in attending on Sunday, November 9 may purchase tickets online. Introduction: Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University

SESSION 4: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS DURING WORLD WAR I Introduction: Deborah Dash Moore, U of Michigan Introduction: Gennady Estraikh, New York Universityĭerek Penslar, University of Oxford and University of Toronto SESSION 2: THE JEWISH WORLD IN 19: WHAT CHANGED? Introductions: David Engel, New York University In shattering empires and creating new states, the war disrupted Jewish ties around the globe and forged new ones, bringing about an entirely new era of ideologies, nation states, and circumstances that have affected Jewish life to the present day. WORLD WAR I AND THE JEWSĪn international roster of scholars will discuss the state of scholarship and introduce cutting-edge research on Jews in World War I, examining the war’s importance as a cataclysmic event in Jewish and world history. The Center is located at 15 West 16th St. Here’s the full schedule, with details about each program and its participants. This includes a conference, a film series, a concert and, as a keystone for the centennial celebration, an evening of performance. To mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I and to consider the war’s legacies in the present day, the Center for Jewish History is launching the World War I and the Jews Initiative, a series of exciting public programs to explore the way that the war transformed Jewish life around the globe. Our armies have forced their way, through storm and darkness, to victory.' Translation from the German: “We are united and no power can separate us. Decorative embroidery by Rose Biegeleisen Axelrod, depicting German ruler and allies during World War I.

The Genoa Conference by Carole Fink