This event will take place on Wednesday, February 21st from 5:30-7:30pm at the James Madison College Library, 332 Case Hall (3rd floor). The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube here.

Dr. Simon will discuss her new book which uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists’ feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos. Dr. Amy Simon holds the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History at MSU. 

Co-Sponsors: Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, College of Arts & Letters, College of Social Science, Department of History, International Studies & Programs, James Madison College, Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, and Residential College in the Arts & Humanities