ACFNY RECOMMENDS | FROM VIENNA TO NEW YORK: JEWISH EXILES REMEMBER “AUSTRIA” IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST

It has been remarked that, before the total destruction of Austria’s Jewish culture in the Holocaust, the “only true Austrians” were the Jewish Austrians. Join a discussion between scholars of Jewish-Austrian culture and former Jewish-Austrian exiles on how “Old Austria” is remembered in the United States today.

PROGRAM
Tim Corbett, a Prins Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, will speak about his new research in the archives of the Leo Baeck Institute. The discussion that follows will include Professor Jess Olson (Yeshiva University) and former exiles and New York residents Trudy Jeremias and Kurt Sonnenfeld.

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Tim Corbett, a Prins Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, is a scholar of Austrian Jewish history. He completed his Ph.D. at Lancaster University, writing on Vienna’s Jewish cemeteries as sites of memory and identity of the city’s once globally influential Jewish community, its enmeshment within Austrian society, and its sometimes conflicted relationship to its non-Jewish neighborhoods.

Jess Olson is Associate Professor of Jewish History and Associate Director of the Center for Israel Studies at Yeshiva University. Interested in questions of nationalism, religion, and Jewish identity in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.

Dr. Olson’s areas of research include the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany, the history of Zionism and Jewish nationalism, and the intersection between Jewish Orthodoxy and political engagement.

Trudy Jeremias and Kurt Sonnenfeld, both born in Vienna in 1925, are Austrian exiles who settled in New York.

For reservations, please visit the following page: http://cjh.org/event/2882.

VENUE
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011