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CENTER FOR JUDAIC, HOLOCAUST, AND GENOCIDE STUDIES
THE HOLOCAUST IN HUNGARY, 70 YEARS ON: NEW
PERSPECTIVES
DRAFT PROGRAM
SUNDAY MARCH 16
12:00-12:30
REGISTRATION [Cohen Center, 2nd Floor]
12:30-1:00
CC 213 Introduction, Welcome, and Official Opening of Conference
1:00-2:00
CC 213 Pre-war Antisemitic Discrimination
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Susan Papp, The Hungarian Theatrical Arts and Film Arts Chamber
Maria Kovacs, Numerus Clausus: Ideology, Apologia and Legends
CC 214 The Transformation of Hungarian Film
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2:00-3:30
David Frey, The Near Death Experience of Hungarian Film. The
Impact of Hungary’s First and Second Anti-Jewish Laws on the
Hungarian Film Industry, 1938-40
Catherine Portuges, Cinematic Representations of the Holocaust in
Hungary: Three Generations
CC 213 Resistance and Rescue
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Ruth G. Biro, Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest in 1944-1945: His
Humanitarian Mission and Moral Courage Remembered in the
Aftermath of the Hungarian Holocaust
Gellert Kovacs, Dark Skies over Budapest: Rescue and Resistance
Marta Fuchs, Hungarian Holocaust Legacy: A Daughter’s Tribute to
Her Father’s Christian Rescuer
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CC 214 Representations, from Kertesz to Szabo
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Teri Szűcs, Patterns of Oppression: Fatelessness and Smokey Pictures
Siegrun Bubser Wildner, Auctorial Authenticity and Fictional
Representation of the Holocaust: Imre Kertész’ Novel Fatelessness
and its Film Adaptation
Sean Swenson, Reclaiming the Recipe Book: István Szabó’s Sunshine
and the Hungarian Identity
3:30-4:00
BREAK
4:00-5:00
CC 213 Plenary Session
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5:00-6:00
Ann Weiss, The Auschwitz Album and The Last Album: Eyes from the
Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau: A Study in Contrasts
CC 213 Film and Discussion
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Dragan Kujundžić, Frozen Time, Liquid Memories
MONDAY MARCH 17
9:00-10:30
CC 213 Women: Victims, Resisters, Sexual Objects
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Doreen Eschinger, No Common Bond? Jewish Women from Hungary
in the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück Concentration Camps
Katalin Pécsi-Pollner, Interviews in Israel with Surviving Women from
the Hungarian Zionist Resistance Movement, 1944-45
Anita Kurimay, The Hungarian Far Right and Sexuality
CC 214 Issues Relating to Identity
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Alice Freifeld, Displaced Hungarian Jewish Identity
Istvan Muranyi, National identity and the Holocaust Perception among
Young People – the Case of Hungary
Josette Turro, Jewish Identity in the Pre- and Post-War Period
10:30-11:00
BREAK
11:00-12:00
CC 213 The Kasztner Affair
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Anna Porter, Rezso Kasztner’s Rescue Train and the Strasshof Jews on
Ice
Steven Leonard Jacobs, Re-reading, Re-visiting, and Re-thinking
“L’Affaire Kasztner:” Contemporary Implications
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CC 214 The Psychological Legacy of the Holocaust
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12:00-1:00
György Csepeli and Gergő Prazsák, External attribution as a means of
reduction of cognitive dissonance stemming from the inability to cope
with the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary Hungarian public
opinion
CC 213 Eichmann in Jerusalem
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Fabien Théofilakis, The Holocaust in Hungary during the Eichmann
Trial: When the Defendant Tried to Rewrite the History (1960-1962)
Jason O’Connor, Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem Reconsidered:
Eichmann in Hungary in 1944
1:00-2:00
LUNCH
2:00-3:00
CC 213 Surviving the Shoah
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Ferenc Laczó, The Variety of Experiences and the Abundance of
Knowledge: Hungarian Jewish Survivors of Major Nazi Camps and
Key Components of the Extermination of European Jewry in 1945-46
George Lazar, Orthodox Holocaust Survivors in the Hungarian
Countryside
CC 214 Music and Musicians
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3:00-4:00
Susan M. Filler, Musicological Research among Hungarian Jews in the
Context of Musical Nationalism
James A. Grymes, Ernst von Dohnányi: A Forgotten Hero of the
Holocaust Resistance
CC 213 The Church in Action: Two Expressions
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Michael Dickerman, The Holocaust in Hungary: Inferring Pius XII’s
Position from the Statements and Actions of Seredi and Rotta
George Csicsery, Angel of Mercy: The Story of Sister Margaret Slachta
CC 214 Regional Studies (1)
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Gabriel Mayer, What Happened to the Jews of Koloszvar in the Spring
of 1944
Viktoria Tafferner-Gulyas, “Talking Headstones” in the Cemetery of
the Reformed Jewish Congregation in Szombathely, West Hungary
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4:00-4:30
BREAK
4:30-5:30
CC 214 Plenary Session
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Film and Discussion: Julia Creet, MUM
TUESDAY MARCH 18
9:00-10:30
CC 214 Resistance, Leadership, and the Grey Zone
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Paul Sanders, “Grey zones,” “dirty hands” and Legitimacy: A New
Approach to Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust in Hungary
Mario Fenyo, Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
Julia Bock, Working and Dying as Doctors during the Holocaust
10:30-11:00
BREAK
11:00-12:00
CC 214 Assimilation, Integration, Rejection?
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Peter Kenez, The Peculiarities of the Acculturation of the 19th
Century Hungarian Jewry
Tamas Stark, The “Ostjuden” Question in Hungary during World
War I and the Interwar Period: How Galician Jewish Refugees
became Hungary's “Number One Enemies”
12:00-1:00
LUNCH
1:00-2:30
CC 213 The Value of Personal Testimony
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Laura Kidd, “Sometimes God closes His eyes, but sometimes at the last
moment He opens them ...”
Sarah Valente, After the Danube Ran Red: An Interview with
Holocaust Survivor and Renowned Scholar Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
Jeanette Friedman, How Do We Teach the Holocaust When the
Witnesses are Gone? How to Use Survivor Memoirs/First Person
Stories to Engage Students
CC 214 Anti-Jewish Persecution from Ideology to Action
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Csaba Fazekas, The “Christian” Ideology of the Early Extreme Right
Movements in the 1920s
Sara Gottwalles, Himmler in Hungary: Ideological Warfare
Tamás Kovács, Hungarian Implementers, German Officers and
Advisers
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2:30-3:00
BREAK
3:00-4:00
CC 213 Regional Studies (2)
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George Eisen, The Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust: the
Summer 1941 Deportation
Ronit Fisher, The Fate of Transylvanian Jewry: Between the
Romanian and Hungarian Holocaust
CC 214 The Struggle for Memory
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4:00-5:00
Richard Esbenshade, Uncovering Holocaust Memory in Socialist
Hungary, 1948-70
Éva Kovács, Timing History – A Hungarian Historikerstreit in 2012
CC 213 Memorialization and Museums
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Julia Creet, The House of Terror and the Holocaust Memorial Center:
Resentment and Melancholia in Post-89 Hungary
András Gerő, Hungarian Holocaust Representations
CC 214 The Law and Justice
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5:00-5:30
Mary Maudsley, Rabbi v. Historian: Challenging History through
Libel Litigation
Ben Brockman-Hawe, Extraordinary Justice, Extraordinary
Challenges: Punishing Nazi War Criminals in 21st Century Hungary
CC 213 Conclusion, Expressions of Thanks, and Farewell