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Roberta Barkan Memorial Lecture- May 6, 2010

Thursday May 6, 2010
7:30 PM
Humanities Theater (Humanities Building, Purchase College SUNY)

Jeffrey Herf

NAZI PROPAGANDA FOR THE ARAB WORLD

Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, has published extensively on Germany during the Weimar Republic, the Nazi period and the Holocaust, and the Cold War. In November 2009, Yale University Press published his book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. 

In this lecture, Professor Herf will examine the Third Reich's efforts to target Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East with Nazi ideology during the course of World War II and the Holocaust.

This lecture is sponsored by the Roberta Barkan Memorial Fund of the Jewish Studies Program of Purchase College SUNY, which is made possible largely through the generosity of the Smart Family Foundation, and by Hillels of Westchester, the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, Westchester Jewish Center, and Westchester Jewish Conference. 
Admission to the public is free of charge.

Jewish Studies lecture coming up!

Monday, March 22, 2010
7:30 PM
Humanities Theater, Durst Family Humanties Building

Edwin Black will be speaking on
IBM and the Holocaust

This event is made possible in part by the Julian and Barbara Juster Fund for Holocaust Studies of the Jewish Studies Program, as well as by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center (HHREC) and the Duchesne Center of Manhattanville College.


And stay tuned for information about our May 6, 2010 Barkan Memorial lecture as well.