Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan co-publishes new book

Maggie Rosenau — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:45:13 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan co-publishes new book Maggie Rosenau Mon, 04/07/2025 - 12:45

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan has co-published a new book: Holocaust Testimonies Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times.

��Ҵ�ý�ƽ�� twenty researchers from Israel, Europe, the UK, North and South America worked with the editors for 5 years on this project.

It is available for preorder now at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/holocaust-testimonies-9781350237872/

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan receives Tier 1 grant from CU's Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship

Maggie Rosenau — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:03:00 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan receives Tier 1 grant from CU's Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship Maggie Rosenau Tue, 03/04/2025 - 14:03

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan has received a Tier 1 grant from CU's Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (Higher Education and Democracy Initiative).

Prof. Pegelow Kaplan will use the grant to work with Colorado Mesa University on their Holocaust Awareness Series in Grand Junction this year.

Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship Grants fund work that connects research, teaching and creative work with public needs and interests.

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes a piece on the transatlantic scholarship on German Jewish History

Maggie Rosenau — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:36:36 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes a piece on the transatlantic scholarship on German Jewish History Maggie Rosenau Wed, 12/04/2024 - 12:36

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's latest publication, a chapter on "Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Jewish History” was just published in German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945, edited by Karen Hagemann and Konrad Jarausch (Berghahn Books, 2024).

Access the article here: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HagemannGerman

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan serving on Yad Vashem's selection committee for International Book Prize

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan serving on Yad Vashem's selection committee for International Book Prize Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/06/2024 - 00:00

Professor Pegelow Kaplan was invited and is now serving on Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)'s selection committee for its International Book Prize for a monograph on the Shoah. Outside members are "renowned foreign scholars, chosen according to their international standing and according to their expertise." He was also invited and is currently serving as an external member of the search committee for the new genocide studies chair at SciencesPo in Paris, France.

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes piece in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:22:25 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes piece in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/25/2024 - 13:22

Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently published a piece in a special issue of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book.

Abstract

By late 1941, some 1,300 Jews had escaped from National Socialist-controlled Europe to the Philippines. This essay problematizes the existing historiography on this rescue by going beyond examinations of its mechanisms and the politics of memory. Instead, it introduces a rereading of the refugees’ struggles by focusing on their continued being-in-transit and mandated imperial performativity, which allows for analysing transnational spaces shaped by their seemingly mundane everyday practices, from walking to cooking.

During the early years, American, Filipino, and Jewish community leaders expected the performance of imperial norms and policed interactions between the refugees and native Filipinos. Some of the refugees succeeded. Some even managed to open shops. Others failed or rebelled and soon found themselves in peril. The late 1941 invasion by Japanese forces subjected Philippine society to new racial hierarchies. Jewish refugees, suspected of collaborating with the enemy, had to engage in different imperial performances in order to survive. By late 1946, many Jewish survivors had managed to leave, mostly to the United States, where they encountered new challenging power asymmetries of a different kind.

Read the article here.

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Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes new book with Yad Vashem

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:53:51 +0000

Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes new book with Yad Vashem Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:53

Prof. Pegelow Kaplan's latest book entitled Taking the Transnational Turn: The German-Jewish Press and Journalism Beyond Borders, 1933-1943 recently appeared (in Hebrew) with Yad Vashem Publications in Jerusalem. In his study, Pegelow Kaplan calls for a rereading of German-Jewish journalism during the Nazi period based on transnational approaches. His work combines theoretical frameworks with a number of case studies from the cross-national transfer of news about rescue and emigration opportunities to the Philippines to transnational networks of German-Jewish journalists in Paris and Berlin during the early 1940s.

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan interviewed for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:46:16 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan interviewed for International Holocaust Remembrance Day Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/29/2024 - 10:46

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan was interviewed by ��Ҵ�ý�ƽ�� Today for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

You can read the article here.

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Program aims to offer deeper insight into Israel, Gaza war and history

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:06:53 +0000

Program aims to offer deeper insight into Israel, Gaza war and history Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/27/2023 - 15:06

In response to public requests, ��Ҵ�ý�ƽ�� experts will discuss range of topics in Arab-Israeli conflict at Wednesday forum, which is open to the community.

A weekend cease-fire extension and the continuing release of hostages have raised some hopes, but the devastating war in the Middle East has also raised many questions.

Many members of the University of Colorado Boulder campus community have asked for expert insight into the conflict and its centuries-long history. In response, the Program in Jewish Studies will host “Explaining Conflict and War in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank: Community Discussions with CU Faculty Members” from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in UMC 285-289.

The event, which is open to the public, is being organized by the Program in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Department of English, the Department of History and the International Affairs Program.

It will follow an informal format and allow individuals and smaller groups of participants to discuss a specific sub-topic, ranging from antisemitism to the long history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with faculty experts, including:

Janet J. Jacobs, professor of distinction in women and gender studies
Zach Levey, Israel Institute visiting professor and visiting professor of international affairs
Karim Mattar, associate professor of English
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and interim director of the Program in Jewish Studies
Eyal Rivlin, teaching associate professor of Jewish studies
Rebecca Wartell, teaching associate professor of Jewish Studies

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's co-edited book on Holocaust petitioning now published in up-dated paperback edition

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:25:49 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's co-edited book on Holocaust petitioning now published in up-dated paperback edition Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/16/2023 - 09:25

Berghahn, New York, just published an up-dated paperback edition of Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's and Wolf Gruner (USC)'s 2020 co-edited collection "Resisting Persecution: Jews and their Petitions during the Holocaust". In her assessment, Marion Kaplan (New York University) stressed that “in exploring how persecuted Jews petitioned Nazi officials—and, in some cases, Jewish leaders—for justice, rights, and mercy," the book has " initiated a thought-provoking and entirely new approach to Holocaust Studies. Challenging those who claim Jews were 'passive' victims or that only political or armed defiance can 'count' as resistance, this volume distinctly reveals that despite having far less power than the authorities, Jews demonstrated agency, protested -- even defied -- persecution, and, in some instances, succeeded."

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan published a new book

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:35:37 +0000

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan published a new book Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 07/26/2023 - 10:35

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan published a new co-edited book this summer, titled Polizei und Holocaust: Eine Generation nach Christopher Brownings Ordinary Men. Read an English translation of the summary below:

How was the Holocaust possible? What made "ordinary men" become mass murderers? The historical analysis of democratic decay can be the starting point for recognizing the same dangers in today's societies. The debate about perpetration became effective a generation ago with Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men". However, interpretive struggles around categories such as collaboration, space, and gender were not a purely German topic and are more current and contested in Western, Central, and Eastern European countries than ever before. This is because Browning's impulse was not only focused on historical research, but also on social debates about responsibility and ethical consequences for future generations. The contributions deal with new approaches to Holocaust research, police perpetration under National Socialism, their current socio-political readings, and contested historical consciousness-raising in multi-ethnic societies today.

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