Friday, 1 August 5-6pm
RD Watt Building, Room 203
Please join us for an informal conversation with Daniel Blatman, eminent scholar of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies. Like other historians of the Holocaust, Blatman argues that Israel is currently committing a genocide in Gaza. “I have been engaged in researching the Holocaust for about 40 years,” he writes. “I never imagined in my worst nightmares that the Jewish state would bomb starving children to death”. What is the role of historical research in the context of the unfolding genocide? And what does this moment ask of us, as historians and other scholars?
Our discussion will be organised around two of Prof Blatman’s recent pieces in Haaretz:
“There’s No Auschwitz in Gaza. But It’s Still Genocide”
“Invoking Never Again in Israel, as More Children Die”
If you would like to attend the discussion, please come having read these two short articles and bring questions for Prof Blatman. Staff and students all welcome.
Bio: Daniel Blatman is Professor of Modern Jewish history and Holocaust Studies. He has worked on the history of the Jewish labor movement in Eastern Europe, the Holocaust in Poland, and on Nazi annihilation policy at the end of World War II. His publications include: For our Freedom and Yours, The Jewish Labor Bund in Poland 1939–1945 (2003), Reportage from the Ghetto, The Jewish Underground Press in Warsaw Ghetto (2005), and The Death Marches, The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide (2011).
Sponsored by the Powerful Stories Network, the Sydney Staff and Students Workshops on Anthropology, Research and Methods (SSSWARM), and the Discipline of Anthropology
Contact: Michael Edwards, Discipline of Anthropology, michael.edwards@sydney.edu.au