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8 I January 31,2008 TEXAS JEWISH POST #SINCE 1947
Holocaust Conference at UTD Feb. 10-13
By Deb Silverthorn Modernism, and the Holocaust" to an end with the Holocaust, is
The Ackerman Center for Ho- Feb. 10-13. The conference, which open to the public.
locaust Studies at UT Dallas will is dedicated to the role Jews played The program, which will open
host "Echoes of a Century: Jews, in modernism and how that came at UT Dallas' Conference Center
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at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10, will
continue all day Monday at the
Tycher Library in the Mankoff
Center for Jewish Learning at the
Aaron Family JCC, and Tuesday
at the Nasher Sculpture Center
downtown. The concluding
sessions, on Wednesday, will
return to the UT Dallas Con-
ference Center.
"We are excited to bring
this conference, the first of its
kind in Dallas, to the whole
community. It is both an op-
portunity and an obligation,"
said the university's vice presi-
dent, Hobson Wildenthal.
"From the beginning Profes-
sor (Zsuzsanna) Ozsvath, one
of the world's experts in this
area, has given so much of
herself. We support her efforts
and those of this program."
"There are so many ques-
tions and absolutely no an-
swers with regard to the Ho-
locaust," said Selwin Belofsky,
chairman of the board, who,
with his wife Joyce, has been
associated with UT Dallas'
program for almost 20 years.
"The program is in an incred-
ible period of growth and ex-
pansion. Our goals continue
to embrace the community."
In addition to UT Dallas'
Ozsvath and Nils Roemer,
the international register of
conference speakers includes
Richard Brettell (Margaret
McDermott Distinguished
Chair of Arts and Aesthetics
at UT Dallas and American
director of French Regional
American Museum Exchange),
Bryan Cheyette (University of
Reading), Charles Dellheim
(Boston University), Stephen
F. Eisenman (Northwestern
University), Adam Ferziger
(Bar-Ilan University), Lynn
Gamwell (SUNY Bingham-
ton/School of Visual Arts in
New York), Willi Goetschel
(University of Toronto), Sa-
bine Hake (UT Austin), Geza
Komoroczy (University of Bu-
dapest), Lawrence L. Langer
(Simmons College), Olga Lit-
vak (University of Albany/
SUNY), David Patterson (Uni-
versity of Memphis), Frank
Stern (Vienna University), Ro-
chelle Tobias (Johns Hopkins
University), and Till Van Rah-
den (University of Montreal).
The Ackerman Center for
Holocaust Studies' Arnold A.
Jaffe Holocaust Book Collection,
the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair
of Holocaust Studies and the
Burton C. Einspruch Holocaust
Lecture Series are under the direc-
tion of Prof. Ozsvath, a native of
Budapest and Holocaust survivor,
who has been at the university for
almost 30 years. "The Holocaust is
one of the greatest shaping events
of the 20th century, an unprece-
dented genocide that must be talk-
ed about and studied in depth,"
Ozsvath said. "We are enormously
grateful to this university, to Vice
President Wildenthal, to Ed Ack-
erman and to all of our support-
ers who have been instrumental
in our success.... The topic of the
Holocaust is taught in many plac-
es but the concentration of study
we provide, the rich program we
offer to our students, is amazing.
We give a thorough and widely-
ranging education in the field of
19th- and 20th-century European
history, political development and
culture as well as confronting the
tradition of anti-Semitism, its
connections and contexts over the
ages."
The Jaffe Collection, a con-
stantly growing, renowned book
and video collection that is part of
an international bibliographic da-
tabase connecting thousands of li-
braries, was donated by the family
of Arnold A. Jaffe, a former adult
student of Ozsvath.
The Leah and Paul Lewis
Chair of Holocaust Studies,
made possible by the couple's
daughter Miriam Lewis Bar-
nett, her husband Mitchell
Barnett and others to support
the study of the Holocaust at
UTD, follows the senior Lewis'
lifetime of dedication to the re-
membrance and education of the
Holocaust. The couple sponsored
the first memorial of its kind in
the United States in 1959 at Con-
gregation Shearith Israel in Dal-
las, as well as more than 20 other
memorials and monuments. The
program guarantees the study and
exploration of the intellectual,
social, political, religious, moral,
and philosophical crises underly-
ing the Holocaust, teaching both
the event and its aftermath, in-
cluding the questions it has raised
about human nature, the role that
prejudice and hatred play in so-
ciety, and our responsibilities to
others in the world.
There is no charge for the Feb-
ruary conference but RSVPs are
required. The luncheon at the
Nasher Sculpture Center is $18 for
adults and $10 for students. For
more information about the Ack-
erman Center for Holocaust Stud-
ies, or to register for the February
conference, call 972-888-2100 or
e-mail dhpf@utdallas.edu.
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