When:
Monday, November 3, 2014
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, Room 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Nancy Gelman
(847) 491-2612
Group: The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Category: Academic
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
“Hollywood and the Holocaust: From Appeasement to Anti-Nazism, 1933-1945”
Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University
Examining the reasons for Hollywood’s self-censorship of Nazi anti-Semitic policies and why Warner Brothers became the first major studio to tackle the topic in the late 1930s.