Jews, Roma, and the Holocaust

Ari Joskowicz is Eugene Greener, Jr. Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on the relations between marginalized groups and on the material and financial changes that shape minority self-perceptions. His most recent book Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2023) won the Ernst Fraenkel Prize of the Wiener Library, the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Sybil Milton Memorial Book Prize of the German Studies Association.

About the free lecture

From concentration camps to the killing sites of mobile shooting squads, Jews and Roma experienced Nazi persecution in close proximity to each other. Yet, after the war, the world recognized the injustices both groups faced differently. While Jewish persecution histories became memorialized in museums, monuments, and college course the international community largely ignored the Roma genocide. How should we tell the story of the Holocaust in light of this unequal treatment? How have relations between Jews and Roma—from the 1930s to the present—influenced the way we think about Nazi racial persecution? How can we write histories of entangled persecution?

Jews, Roma, and the Holocaust with Dr. Ari Joskowicz, Eugene Greener, Jr. Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
Thursday, November 6
6 p.m.
Telus Centre Auditorium (150), North Campus
University of Alberta