Reactions in Jewish Communities (New Perspectives on Kristallnacht conference)

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research shares this panel from its 2018 international conference "New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison," featuring the following scholars and topics:

Chair: Paul Lerner (University of Southern California, History)

Hasia Diner (New York University, American Jewish History):
"1938: A Moment of Reckoning for American Jews"

Steven Ross (University of Southern California, History):
"The Ambiguous Legacy of Kristallnacht: Nazis, Resistors and Anti-Semitism in 1930s-1940s Los Angeles"

Gershon Greenberg (American University, Washington, DC., Philosophy and Religion):
"Orthodox Jewish Religious Responses to Kristallnacht: Globally Considered"

The conference was co-organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, and presented in cooperation with the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. and the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, Germany.