Date and Time
October 26, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Availability
Open to the public
No RSVP required

Speaker
Shimon Redlich - Professor Emeritus, Modern Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University (1970-2003)

Shimon Redlich was born in 1935 in Lwow, Poland. He lived in Brzezany, 90 kilometers southeast of Lwow, until the Second World War, and during the period of Soviet rule from 1939-1941. Professor Redlich survived the Holocaust in the Brzezany Ghetto and in the nearby village of Raj, and later settled with the remnants of his family in Lodz in 1945. He immigrated to Israel in 1950. Professor Redlich holds an M.A. in Russian Studies from Harvard University (1964) and a Ph.D. in Jewish History from New York University (1968). He has lectured at Whitman College, Hunter College, Bar-Ilan University, Hebrew University, and University of Pittsburgh. He held several positions at Ben-Gurion University, including Chairman of the History Department,  Director of the Center for East European Jewish Studies, and Director of the Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies.

Professor Redlich's publications include: Books and articles on the History of the Jews in Russia, Poland and in the Soviet Union. Among his books: War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented History of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995; Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians, 1919-1945, Indiana University Press, 2002 (published in Polish Ukrainian and Hebrew). Completed a book length study Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950.

This seminar is sponsored jointly by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, Department of History, and Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University.