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Upcoming Events
"Mameloshn" - a new play by Russian-Jewish-German dramatist Marianna Salzmann
Tuesday October 29th, 8 pm in Shiffman 219
With the help of German Stage director Guy Ben Aharon and the Goethe Institut Bostonnare proud to bring Marianna Salzmann’s award-winning new play Mamaloshn to the Brandeis campus. The play describes three women, three generations, three ways of life. What did it mean to live as a Jew in East Germany and what does it mean in modern-day Germany? Questions of identity and belonging are set against questions of personal freedoms and responsibility to the family in this hilarious newplay. The play received the best Play of the Year Award 2013 at the Mülheimer Theatertage. Actress Rebecca Schneebaum will be joined on stage by Elliot Norton Award & IRNE Award Winner Bobbie Steinbach, and IRNE Award Winner Maureen Keiller. Marianna Salzmann was born in 1985 in Wolgograd and grew up in Moscow and in various places around Germany. She lives in Berlin. She studied Literature, Theatre and Media at the University of Hildesheim while publishing poems, essays and short plays in a number of different magazines.
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry
A special lecture with Dr. Martin Dean from Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday October 30st, 6 - 8 pm in Mandel 303
Dr. Martin Dean from the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., will come to Brandeis to discusses recent findings of the massive Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Project. Volume 2, covering Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe, published in 2012, documented more than 300 ghetto sites not previously described in English. Dr. Dean will outline some of the research methods and sources used and give a survey of the wide variety of forced labor camps and police-run camps to be covered in the forthcoming Volumes 5 and 6, devoted mainly to more than 30,000 forced labor sites across Europe. Dean subsequently worked as a Historical Researcher for the British Home Office War Crimes Inquiry (1988-1989), for the Cambridge University History Faculty’s Project on Berlin during the First World War (1989-1991), and for the Australian Special Investigations Unit (War Crimes) (1989-1992). From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Dean worked as the Senior Historian for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London.
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry