Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

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

Nov. 6, 2024

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...

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

July 25, 2024

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...

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Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan publishes new book with Yad Vashem

Feb. 28, 2024

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...

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan interviewed for International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan. 29, 2024

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan was interviewed by 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 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

Nov. 27, 2023

In response to public requests, 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 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...

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

Oct. 16, 2023

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 鈥 in exploring how persecuted Jews petitioned Nazi officials鈥攁nd,...

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan published a new book

July 26, 2023

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...

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Yom HaShoah Readings Make Local News

April 19, 2023

On Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, organized a public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust. Watch the local news clip here .

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan听gave a lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dec. 2, 2022

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan gave a lecture on November 14th, 2022 to Israeli faculty and PhD students as well as to guests from Germany at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The title of his talk was 鈥 Holocaust Studies in the 2020s. Agency Memory, and More Cultural Turns? 鈥

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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's interview on anti-semitism is featured in 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 Today

Nov. 22, 2022

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's interview on anti-semitism hate speech was featured in 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 Today. You can read the November 16th article here .

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