This event will take place at the James Madison College Library, 332 Case Hall, on Tuesday, March 12th, from 5:30-7:00pm. The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube here.

The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish untangles the complicated saga of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye and its editors. The editors continued to publish volumes and revise the encyclopedia’s mission while their primary audience, Eastern European Jews, faced persecution and genocide under Nazi rule, and the challenge of reestablishing themselves in the first decades after World War II.

Barry Trachtenberg is the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History and Professor at Wake Forest University. He author three books, The Holocaust Exile Yiddish: A Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (Rutgers, 2022), United States Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, Remembrance (Bloomsbury, 2018), Revolutionary Roots Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (Syracuse, 2008).

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