Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin asserted that Ukraine needed to be de-nazified. What does Putin mean by “denazification”? Where does the history of the Holocaust fit into the current situation? What does it reveal or obscure? Does it matter that Ukraine President Zelensky is Jewish? Why? We will explore these questions and more in this roundtable on “The Weaponization of History and the Uses of Antisemitism in Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine.”
A discussion with:
• Marta Havryshko, Research Associate, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences
• John-Paul Himka, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Alberta
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Professor of History, Northwestern University
• Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History,Yale University
Moderated by:
• Benjamin Frommer, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Sponsored by:
-The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University
-Penn State Behrend Department of History
-Northwestern University Department of History
-The Association for Jewish Studies Holocaust Division
-The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University
E-mail questions to Amy Carney: acarney@psu.edu
Cost: free
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