[MGSA-L] To attend in London: 'A ‘Sephardi Holocaust’? Mediterranean and Sephardi Jewries during World War Two', 17 December 2019

Paris Papamichos Chronakis pchronakis at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 07:02:10 PST 2019


Dear all,

Anyone in London or in the environs is welcome to register
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hri-workshop-series-a-sephardi-holocaust-tickets-83961528191>
and attend.



A ‘Sephardi Holocaust’?
Mediterranean and Sephardi Jewries during World War Two

*Tue, 17 December 2019, **10:00 – 17:00 GMT*


*Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide*

*29 Russell Square, **London, WC1B 5DP*



'A 'Sephardi Holocaust'? Mediterranean and Sephardi Jewries during World
War Two' seeks to shed new light on the Sephardi and Mediterranean Jewish
experience of the Holocaust. It presents ongoing work on a wide variety of
hitherto unaccounted facets of the Holocaust and covers the Sephardi and
Mediterranean Jewish world at its broadest –from Amsterdam to Rome and from
Spain via Tunis to Greece. The papers presented reconsider themes central
in Holocaust Studies. They unveil strategies of survival peculiar to the
Amsterdam Sephardi and Italian Jewish communities; identify differing
processes of exclusion among North African Jews; unpack the historically
specific meanings of the ‘Sephardi’ in Spanish legal and diplomatic
discourse; and, finally, reconstruct the transnational nature of
Greek-Jewish escape networks in the post-imperial Eastern Mediterranean.
Taken as a whole, the papers question our dominant preconceptions of the
plight of the Sephardim and nuance the existing Ashkenazi-centric
narratives. The workshop thus aims to serve as a starting point for
(re)thinking the Holocaust through the lens of the Mediterranean, and to
challenge the still prevailing model of ‘centre-periphery’ in Holocaust
studies by advocating for a mosaic-like approach to Holocaust spaces and
experiences.


Speakers include:

Bieke van Camp (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France): ‘Strong and
weak bonds: Italian deportees through the eye of the Network’

Jaap Cohen (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
Netherlands): ‘The *Action Portuguesia*: A Dutch Sephardic rescue operation
based upon the myth of Sephardic superiority, 1941-1944’

Daniel Lee (Queen Mary, University of London): '‘The *Commissariat Général
aux Questions Juives* in Tunisia and the implementation of Vichy’s
anti-Jewish legislation’

Paris Papamichos Chronakis (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Crossing
the Aegean: Greek Jews, escape networks and the legacies of empire’

Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo (Royal Holloway, University of London):
'Philosemitism
without Jews: from the second expulsion to the return of the Sephardim to
Spain’


*This event is generously supported by The Hellenic Institute at Royal
Holloway, University of London.*



-- 
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Lecturer in Modern Greek History
Department of History
Royal Holloway, University of London
skype name: pchronakis
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