When the Synagogues
Burned: Making Sense
of Kristallnacht
A lecture by
Dr. Jay Geller
Sunday, Nov. 9
2 p.m.
Charles Schusterman
Jewish Community Center,
Sylvan Auditorium
2021 E. 71st St. • 918.495.1111
On Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis destroyed hundreds of synagogues and Jewishowned businesses in an unprecedented explosion of violence. But what did Kristallnacht
mean to those who witnessed it? How did the victims, bystanders and perpetrators
understand the event, and how should we view it today?
Dr. Jay Geller, author of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953, is the Samuel
Rosenthal professor of Judaic studies and associate professor of history at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. From 2002-2009, he was assistant professor and
associate professor of history at the University of Tulsa, where he taught a wide variety of
courses on European history and Jewish history.
This lecture is presented by the Tulsa Council for Holocaust Education, a committee of the
Jewish Federation of Tulsa, in partnership with the Tulsa City-County Library.
Free and Open to the Public