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The Bulletinof the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studiesvolume 19the university of vermontspring 2015Francis Nicosia receives “Distinguished Achievement Award inHolocaust Studies” from Holocaust Educational Foundationby Jonathan HuenerAmong scholars of the Holocaust, the HolocaustEducational Foundation, based at Northwestern University inEvanston, Illinois, stands out as one of the leading organizationsin the field. The foundation sponsors annual summer seminarsfor university faculty and graduate students, provides researchfunding, sponsors travel seminars to Europe and Israel, andperhaps most importantly, organizes the biennial “Lessons andLegacies” conference that draws the most prominent Holocaustscholars from around the world.The University of Vermont was particularly wellrepresented at the thirteenth such conference in November2014, which was centered on the theme “The Holocaust after70 Years: New Perspectives on Persecution, Resistance, andSurvival.” Alan Steinweis, Dana Smith (M.A., History, 2011),Susanna Schrafstetter, Frank Nicosia, Lutz Kaelber, and JonHuener were all in attendance, and one of the high pointsof the weekend was the presentation of the “DistinguishedAchievement Award in Holocaust Studies” to our colleagueFrank Nicosia. The award is presented every other year toscholars and educators who have been consistent leaders inresearch and teaching on the Holocaust, as well as service tothe field.Frank’s academic biography is indeed impressive, andbegins with his studies at the Pennsylvania State University,Georgetown University, and McGill University, where hecompleted his doctorate under the supervision of PeterHoffmann. Since then he has had an impressive career asProfessor of History at Saint Michael’s College and, since2008, at the University of Vermont, where he has servedas the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of HolocaustStudies. At both of these institutions Frank has earned a welldeserved reputation as an outstanding teacher, and his workin the classroom was acknowledged in the year 2000 when hewas named “Vermont Professor of the Year” by the CarnegieEndowment for the Advancement of Teaching.In the broader field of Holocaust studies, Frank is bestknown for his scholarship, and it was perhaps indicative of thetrajectory his career would take when the first article he everpublished appeared in the prestigious Journal of Modern History.Since then, his research has gone on to appear in venues suchas the Journal of Contemporary History, Vierteljahrshefte fürZeitgeschichte, the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, and GermanHistory. Frank has established himself as one of the premierscholars of German antisemitism, Zionism, and especiallyGerman and Nazi policy toward the Middle East. His researchin these areas has been supported by two Fulbright grants,by residencies at the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschungat the Technische Universität Berlin and at the HumboldtUniversität Berlin, and by fellowships and grants from theRecipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Holocaust Studiesin 2014 (from left to right): Steven Katz, Boston University; Dagmar Herzog,Graduate Center, City University of New York; Francis Nicosia, University ofVermont; Roger Brooks, Connecticut College. At the far right is Theodor “Zev”Weiss, Executive Director Emeritus of the Holocaust Education Foundation.Continued on next pageFrancis Nicosia Receives DistinguishedAchievement Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Holocaust Studies Courses, 2014-2015 . . . . . . .A Guest Professorship at theUniversity of Munich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .News from the Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IN THIS ISSUE1234A Summer at the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Graduate Student News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Update on the Ordinary Soldiers Project . . . . . . . 8The Terezin Portfolio: A Gift to UVM . . . . . . . . . . 9Aucshwitz as World Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Events of 2014-2015. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Preview of Events, 2015–2016. . . . . . . . . . . . .Report on the 2014 Hilberg Lecture . . . . . . . . .Upcoming Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Volumes from the Miller Symposia . . . . . . . . . .Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121617181920
T H E BU L L E T I N O F T H E C A R O LY N A N D L E O N A R D MIL L ER CENTER F OR HOL OCAUST STUDIESSPRI NG 2015Nicosia Receives Award, continued from front pageMedicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices,Legacies (2002); Business and Industry in Nazi Germany (2004);The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change(2006); and Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (2010), all of whichhave been published by Berghahn Books as part of the acclaimedseries “Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.”Frank’s service to the profession is broad and deep, as hehas always been an enthusiastic reviewer of his colleagues’scholarship and a generous contributor to the professionalorganizations that make work in the field of Holocaust studiespossible. Frank has served on numerous boards and committeesfor the German Studies Association and has worked on behalfof the Holocaust Educational Foundation in a variety of ways,serving on its academic board, and co-chairing the 2010“Lessons and Legacies” conference.All these accomplishments have certainly won Frank therespect and admiration of his colleagues in the field; those ofus who have worked with him closely over the years also, ofcourse, value him for his congeniality, generosity, and sense ofhumor. We congratulate him heartily on this award.Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, the National Endowment forthe Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum.The books that have emerged from his work in archivesextending from North America across Europe to the MiddleEast have included, for example, his first work, The Third Reichand the Palestine Question (University of Texas Press, 1985); hismore recent book Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany,published by Cambridge University Press in 2008 and inGerman as Zionismus und Antisemitismus im Dritten Reich(Wallstein-Verlag) in 2012; and finally, Nazi Germany and theArab World, which appeared late last year with CambridgeUniversity Press. He has, in addition, co-authored with DonaldNiewyk The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (Columbia,2000), and has edited and co-edited numerous volumes, suchas Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition andResistance in the Third Reich (Berg, 1990), Wer bleibt, Opfertseine Jahre, Vielleicht Sein Leben: Deutsche Juden, 1938-1941(Wallstein-Verlag, 2010), as well as a volume that is to appearwith the Leo Baeck Institute entitled Dokumente zur Geschichtedes deutschen Zionismus 1933-1941, forthcoming with Mohr/Siebeck-Verlag. Several of us at UVM have also had the pleasureof organizing with Frank the Miller Symposia and co-editingwith him the volumes that have emerged from these meetings:Jonathan Huener is Associate Professor of History at UVM. Duringthe Fall 2014 semester he served as Interim Director of the MillerCenter for Holocaust Studies.Holocaust Studies Courses Offered at UVM 2014-2015Fall 2014HST/HS-227: Anti-Semitism in Europe: From the Enlightenment to the ‘Final Solution’ (Nicosia)HST 238: World War II in the USSR (Youngblood)REL/HS-180: Moral and Religious Perspectives on the Holocaust(Sugarman)HST/HS-190: The Holocaust (Nicosia)HST/HS-226: France under German Occupation (Zdatny)Fall 2015HST 101: History Methods (Steinweis) (emphasis on the 1930’sand World War Two)HST/HS 139: Modern Germany (Schrafstetter)HST/HS 190: The Holocaust (Nicosia)HST/HS 191: World War Two (Buchanan)HST/HS 226: The Holocaust in Poland (Huener)Spring 2015WLIT/HS-17: Holocaust Literature (Schreckenberger)HST/HS-112: History of Zionism to 1948 (Nicosia)HST/HS-115: History of Poland (Huener)HST/HS-119: Modern Jewish History (Steinweis)HST/HS-139: Modern Germany (Schrafstetter)HST/HS-190: The Holocaust (Huener)HST/HS-191: History of World War II (Buchanan)2
T H E BU L L E T I N O F T H E C A R O LY N A N D L E O N A R D MIL L ER CENTER F OR HOL OCAUST STUDIESSPRI NG 2015A Guest Professorship at the University of Munichby Alan E. SteinweisThe historic main building of theUniversity of MunichFor three semesters in 2013 and 2014 I was on leave fromUVM in order to hold the Chair for Jewish History and Cultureat the University of Munich. In the German system, a “chair”(Lehrstuhl) is not so much a professorship as it is an instituteconsisting of teaching faculty, graduate and undergraduatestudents, and staff support. This particular chair in Munichis the only one of its kind in Germany inasmuch as it is fullyintegrated into the history faculty of the university. JewishStudies programs and institutes at other German universities– and there are quite a few of them – are not as thoroughlyintegrated into the history curriculum.The Chair in Munich has been held since its creation in1997 by Michael Brenner, an eminent scholar of modernGerman-Jewish history. While the emphasis of the Chair’steaching and research focuses on modern and recent Jewishhistory, the geographical focus is quite broad, encompassingEurope and the Americas, with a good deal of attention alsogiven to the history of Zionism and the State of Israel.Because the purpose of the Chair is to educate studentsand promote research about Jewish history, topics such asantisemitism have not featured prominently in its profile. Thisraises the question of why I, a Holocaust specialist, was invitedto hold the Chair for three semesters while Professor Brennerwas on leave at American University in Washington. Themain reason is that the city of Munich is now emerging as animportant center for the study of the Holocaust. The Institutefor Contemporary History (Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte), avenerable institution in Munich, has recently established aCenter for Holocaust Studies, made possible by generousfinancial backing from the provincial government of Bavaria. Ina relatively brief time, the Center has hired a team if outstandinghistorians, established doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships,organized major international conferences, and forgedpartnerships with Yad Vashem and the United States HolocaustMuseum. In view of these developments, it made sense for theUniversity of Munich to invite a Holocaust scholar to hold itsChair of Jewish History, if only temporarily.Much of my teaching in Munich focused on the Holocaust. Itwice taught a large lecture course providing an overview of thesubject, and I offered seminars dealing with specialized topicssuch as the Kristallnacht, Nazi-era antisemitic scholarship, andclassic early works of Holocaust research. Demand for coursesin such subjects was very high, and I found my students to behighly motivated. Never once did I sense that the students foundit odd or inappropriate that they were being taught about theirown history in their own language by an American. In additionto my classes, I directed a large number of BA and MA thesesaddressing Holocaust topics. There may well be segments ofGerman society that are suffering from so-called HolocaustFatigue, but this was certainly not the situation at the Universityof Munich. I’m delighted to be back at UVM after the expirationof my visiting position, but I also look forward to a continuedcollaboration with my colleagues in Munich.Alan E. Steinweis is the Director of the Carolyn and Leonard MillerCenter for Holocaust Studies, and holder of the Miller DistinguishedProfessorship, at UVM.3
T H E BU L L E T I N O F T H E C A R O LY N A N D L E O N A R D MIL L ER CENTER F OR HOL OCAUST STUDIESSPRI NG 2015News from the FacultyAndrew Buchanan (History) spoke at a seriesof meetings on the topic of his book, America’sGrand Strategy in the Mediterranean during WorldWar II. These included seminars at Reading andExeter universities and at the London School ofEconomics, together with a well-attended publiclecture hosted by the New York Military AffairsSymposium. The New York lecture was recordedby C-SPAN and broadcast on national television.It can be viewed at s-engagement-italy-world-war-ii . Hecontinued work on his new book project, tentatively entitled “CitizenSoldiers: Universal Military Service and State Formation from theHussites to the Meiji Restoration.” He is also working on an articleexamining the experience of soldier-tourism during the Americanoccupation of Italy.of this research, he presently analyzes restitution records detailingthe fate of “Jewish mixed-race” children who died at the Hadamarhospital in Germany. He also wrote a preface to the book ChildMurder in the Hospital: The Killing of Disabled Children in the PediatricClinic Rothenburgsort by Andreas Babel (2015), which chronicles theinvolvement of eleven female medical residents and their post-WW IIcareers, and contributed an entry on “eugenics” to the Wiley-BlackwellEncyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society in 2014.Dennis Mahoney (German and Russian)was on sabbatical during the spring semester of2014, where his main project was the scholarlytranslation, with an introduction and notes,of Joseph von Eichendorff ’s novel Ahnung undGegenwart (Presentiment and Present; 1815),with the aid of his wife Angelika, who in theprocess became the co-translator; this translationshould be appearing with the Edwin MellenPress in 2015, in conjunction with the 200thanniversary of the novel’s publication. During the fall of 2014, he spokeon “Imagining and Reality in Joseph von Eichendorff ’s Ahnung undGegenwart” at the International Conference on “Imagining Worlds”organized by the Goethe Society of North America at the Universityof Pittsburgh, and also gave the 2014 Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm Lectureat the University of Waterloo on the theme of “Recreating Nature:German Romantic Landscapes as Cultural Ecology.” In work relatedto his presidency of the International Novalis Society, he read andprovided written assessments of the books/dissertations by youngerscholars working on German and European romanticism that had beennominated for the newly created Novalis Prize, which he awarded at theMay 2014 annual meeting of the Novalis Society in Oberwiederstedt,Sachsen-Anhalt, wearing the medal received at his investiture as theWolfgang and Barbara Mieder Green and Gold Professor. Shortly beforedeparting for Germany, he also had the honor of being the recipient ofthe 2014 Robert V. Daniels Award for Outstanding Contributions toInternational Education. Finally, he also served as editor of the poetryof Charlie Ballantyne, the late husband of Hedi Ballantyne; this volumeof over 100 poems, entitled Poetry of a Lifetime, was published in the“Red Barn” series of Wind Ridge Books (Shelburne, Vermont, 2014).Both Hedi and Charlie Ballantyne were UVM graduates of the class of1950, following Charlie’s return from the army during World War IIand Hedi’s reunion with her father, the composer and author RichardStoehr, who had found a position at St. Michael’s College after beingdismissed from his teaching position at the Vienna Academy of Music in1938 by Nazi officials (http://www.richardstoehr.com/).Meaghan Emery (Romance Languagesand Linguistics) submitted two articles forpublication, the first on French ministers ofMuslim faith and the French Republic and thesecond on Rachid Bouchareb’s recent films “Daysof Glory” and “Outside the Law” as they pertain tothe French tradition of committed intellectualism.On February 12, 2015, Emery led a round-tablediscussion on the January 2015 terrorist attackson Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket inParis. It was entitled “Free Speech Rights: France as a Case in Point,”and Emery along with UVM colleagues Charles-Louis MorandMetivier in French and Ilyse Morgenstein-Fuerst in Religion addressedand heard from a number of students and community members at thiswell-attended event.Jonathan Huener (History) published the article“Nazi Kirchenpolitik and Polish Catholicism inthe Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945,” whichappeared in the summer of 2014 in the journalCentral European History. In the summer 2014he was again a research fellow at the GermanHistorical Institute, Warsaw, where he continuedhis research on the Polish Catholic Church underGerman occupation. While in Poland, he alsoattended an international symposium in Krakówand Oświęcim (Auschwitz) on “Auschwitz as World Heritage: UNESCO,Poland, and History Politics,” where he gave a lecture on “The Politicsand Culture of Commemoration at Auschwitz.” In February of this yearhe attended an international conference in Łódź, Poland on the theme“Łódź w Kraju Warty (1939-1945)–Nowe Perspektywy Badawcze”and presented a paper titled “Katholische Kirche und Kirchenpolitikim Reichsgau Wartheland und in der Diözese Łódź.” Closer to home,in March he was also a guest lecturer at Milton High School, where hemet with three classes of second-year students who are studying theHolocaust.Wolfgang Mieder (German and Russian) isthe author of three new books: “Wer anderneine Grube gräbt”. Sprichwörtliches aus der Bibelin moderner Literatur, Medien und Karikaturen(Wien: Praesens, 2014), “All Men and WomenAre Created Equal”. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s andSusan B. Anthony’s Proverbial Rhetoric PromotingWomen’s Rights (New York: Peter Lang, 2014),and “Behold the Proverbs of a People”. ProverbialWisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics( Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Healso edited Otto Sutermeister‘s Die Schweizerischen Sprichwörter derGegenwart in ausgewählter Sammlung (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2014),volume 31 of Proverbium. Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship(Burlington, Vermont: The University of Vermont), and From Goetheto Novalis. Studies in Classicism and Romanticism. Festschrift for DennisLutz Kaelber (Sociology) presented a paperentitled “Jewish Children, Disability, and NaziMedical Crimes” at the biannual “Lessons andLegacies Conference” of the Holocaust EducationFoundation in Boca Raton in November 2014. Arevised version will be included in the conferencevolume to be published by NorthwesternUniversity Press in the near future. In the contextcontinued on Page 54
T H E BU L L E T I N O F T H E C A R O LY N A N D L E O N A R D MIL L ER CENTER F OR HOL OCAUST STUDIESSPRI NG 2015News From the Faculty, continued from Page 4Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference: Sovereignty Transformed,have appeared in a variety of publications, including roundtable reviewson H-Diplo and in Passport, SHAFR’s triannual review. She published areview essay in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, as wellas reviews in the American Historical Review, Contemporary AustrianStudies, and H-Diplo. In her capacity as president of the Phi BetaKappa chapter hosted by UVM, she worked with a variety of UVM staffmembers to create a comprehensive, accurate list of chapter membersthat links membership data held by the chapter, the national Phi BetaKappa Society, the UVM Registrar’s Office, and the UVM Foundation;the chapter was founded in 1848, so the task was large and well suitedto an historian. Her MA advisee, Natalie Coffmann, successfullydefended a thesis on the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, andshe is currently working with Scott Waterman on a thesis dealing withcoverage of the Spanish Civil War in publications of the CommunistParty of the USA.F. Mahoney in Celebration of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (New York: PeterLang, 2015). Among his recent articles
humor. We congratulate him heartily on this award. . HST/HS-119: Modern Jewish History (Steinweis) HST/HS-139: Modern Germany (Schrafstetter) . and promote research about Jewish history, topics such as antise
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