Northeastern’s president sponsors a community commemoration that traditionally took place in the morning and features a faculty talk and a presentation by the Gideon Klein scholar.
Gideon Klein Scholar Presentation
Please note that the performances of scholars are part of a larger presentation. Each image and link provides access to content where applicable.
Virgil Bozeman
Concert on Nazi censorship of the arts
1999
Sarah Heile
"The Dialectic of Terezin"
2000
Melissa Misicka
Website on musical activities at Terezin
2002
Jungmee Kim
"Viktor Ullmann's Years in Theresienstadt"
2003
Julie Stevens
"Satire and Symbolism in Viktor Ullmann's opera 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis'"
2009
Lynn Torgove
"Frauenstimmen: Women's Voices from Ravensbrück"
2011
Emili Kaufman
"Art of Felix Nussbaum"
2012
Elizabeth Levi
"Rebuilding as Refugees: The Story of Three Women Artists Who Escaped Nazi Rule and Found Hope in America"
2019
Keynote Presentation
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Susan Erony
"The Meeting and the Personal and Political in Art"
1993
"Chaplain's Breakfast"
1994
"Chaplain's Breakfast"
1995
Rosalie Franks
"Background and History of the Survivors of Shoah Visual History Foundation"
1996
Eugene Pogany
Discussion of the harrowing experiences of his family during, and as a result of, the Holocaust
2001
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer
"The Fugu Plan"
2002
Samuil Manski
"With God's Help - One Survivor's Testimony"
2002
Laurel Leff
Discussion on The Silenced Scream: How the New York Times Muffled News of the Holocaust
2003
Deborah Kaufman
"Narratives as Tomorrow's Memories: Post Holocaust Identity in the United States"
2004
Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic
"The Role of Leaders and Followers in the Prevention of Hate Violence"
2005
James Ross
"From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Holocaust Denial Trial: Challenging the Media, the Law, and the Academy"
2006
Nancy Kindelan and Inez Hedges
"Report on the Advanced Academic Learning Community Project"
2008
Ann Grenell
"For the Living: The Power of Survivor Testimonies at Northeastern "
2009
Laurel Leff
"Ties that Bound, Ties that Broke: Edna Ferber's Sponsorship of Refugees from Nazi Germany"
2010
Uta Poiger
"The Holocaust, History, and Memory"
2012
Laurel Leff
"Well Worth Saving: How American Universities Selected Faculty Fleeing Nazi-era Europe"
2013
Natalie Bormann and Veronica Czatkiewicz
"Postcards from Auschwitz: The Ethics of Visiting Sites of Trauma"
2014
Jeffrey Burds
"The Pogrom in Lemberg, 1 July 1941: A Local Atrocity as International History"
2016
Rose Zoltek-Jick
"The Search for Meaning: Survivor's Children and Their Choice of a Life"
2017