Life After the Center
As Holocaust museums and memorials proliferate, Center alumni are poised to assume leadership positions. Indeed they are doing just that as they continue to embrace opportunities for further research and public service. As the only program to provide doctoral education in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, the Center is proud to serve as a training ground for future curators, education directors, and historians who will advance the field and enhance the education of teachers, students, and the public. Their activities, reported below, attest to the value of the Center’s enterprise of rigorous doctoral education.
Beth Cohen, Ph.D. "Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America, 1946-1954" Graduated, October 2003.
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Employment:
Project Leader, Jewish Education Program, Facing History and Ourselves, Los Angeles, CA, January 2009-present.Interim Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2008
Lecturer, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2008
Fellowships and Prizes:
Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Award, 2008Life Reborn Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for research on Displaced Persons, 2004-2005
Peter Hayes Research Fellowship, Holocaust Educational Foundation, 2002-2003
Selected Publications:
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press and US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006)
"The Magnificent Immigrants," New York State Archives Magazine, New York, Spring 2008.
"Holocaust Survivors in America," "We Are Here": New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany, Eds: Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz, Wayne State Press, 2007.
"From Case File to Testimony: Reconstructing Survivors' First Years in America," The Casden Annual, Vol. 6: The Impact of the Shoah on America and in Jewish American Life, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life Purdue University/ University of South Carolina Press, Spring 2007.
Recent Presentations:
Panel participant, "Displaced Persons, Social Welfare, and the Role of New York Communal Agencies at Home and Abroad," Milstein Conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience, YIVO, New York, November 2009."From Case File to Testimony: Reconstructing Survivors' First Years in America," Biennial American Jewish History Scholars Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 2008.
"Case Closed," An evening in honor of American Jewish History Month, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA, June 2007.
"Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America," Mona and Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, May 2007.
"Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors In Postwar America," Asher Family Lecture, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2007.
Contact: beth.cohen@csun.edu
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Sarah Cushman "The Women of Birkenau"
Tiberiu Galis “Transitional Justice and Transition to a New Regime: Making Sense of Uncertain Times”
Naama Haviv, MA "The Pre-Conditions for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ through ‘Population Transfer’: The Case of Israel-Palestine" Graduated MA, October 2006.
Rachel Iskov "Jewish Family Life in Lodz Ghetto"
Jeffrey Koerber
“Born in the Borderlands: Jewish Youth and Their Response to Oppression and
Genocide, 1933–1948"
Robin Krause "German Opposition to Genocide: The Case of the Herero, 1904-1907"
Beth Lilach "Aftermath of Liberation: Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps, Germany 1945-1957"
Ilana Offenberger "The Nazification of Vienna and the Response of the Viennese Jews"
Christine Schmidt, Ph.D. "The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon"
Graduated, October 2003.
Lotta Stone "Seeking Asylum: Jewish Refugees to South Africa 1930-1948"