Amy Simon presents "Emotions in Ghettos during the Holocaust"

Amy Simon is the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History at Michigan State University. She holds a joint appointment with James Madison College and the Department of History in the College of Social Science and is a core faculty member of the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel in the College of Arts and Letters.

Dr. Simon is a former fellow and researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Her research foregrounds empathy as a historical method. Her work investigates victim/perpetrator relationships during the Holocaust, the so called “grey zones” of behavior that characterized that time, the world of Holocaust victim perceptions and emotions, and issues of representation and language within Holocaust studies.

More recently, she has become involved in researching and speaking about Holocaust pedagogy. She also regularly gives public lectures and educational workshops and trainings on historical and contemporary antisemitism.

This talk is sponsored by the Dr. Harold Abel Endowed Lecture Series in the Study of Dictatorship, Democracy and Genocide within the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at CMU.