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  • Summer 2020
    • A Word From Our Director
    • Forthcoming Center Events
    • Articles >
      • 1. Prominent Polish-Jewish Intellectual Named First Center Fellow
      • 2. Yom HaShoah Commemorations
      • 3. Center and Partners Organized Program Against Police Brutality in NC
      • 4. Research by the Center Affiliated Faculty
      • 5. Expanded Cooperation with AppTV
      • 6. Training the Next Generation of Holocaust Scholars and Educators in Washington, DC
      • 7. Center Participates in German Initiative to Fight Antisemitism and Strengthen Democracy
  • Winter 2020
    • Articles >
      • 1. Online Center Database Gives Public Access to Survivor and Scholarly Voices
      • 2. Rethinking the Summer Symposium in Times of a Pandemic
      • 3. Research by the Center Affiliated Faculty
      • 4. Center Fall Programming Goes Global during the “Zoom Age”
      • 5. Center Commemorates “Kristallnacht” Amidst Increasing Antisemitism and Attacks on Synagogues
    • A Word From Our Director
    • Forthcoming Center Events
  • Summer 2021
    • Articles >
      • 1. Workshop on German-Jewish Studies in Cooperation with Berlin’s Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
      • 2. Center Names Winner of the JHP Student Research Paper Prize
      • 3. Warsaw Ghetto Research by Yad Vashem Director
      • 4. Faculty Research
      • 5. Symposium To be Held as Virtual Program Open to the Public
      • 6. Peace and Genocide Education Club Honored with Student Leadership Award
    • Forthcoming Events
    • A Word From the Director
  • Winter 2021
    • Articles >
      • 1. Dr. Rosemary Horowitz z’’l: In Memoriam
      • 2. Research by the Center Affiliated Faculty and Students in Fall 2021
      • 3. Renowned VT-Based Theater Company Bread & Puppet
      • 4. Virtual International Programming from Australia to Poland and Florida Continues
    • Forthcoming Events
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A Word From the Director

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Center Director Prof. Pegelow Kaplan in a Rosen Summer Symposium program with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff.

The second spring of the pandemic was yet another test of our resolve and ability to adjust. The Center responded with a widened range of online programs for the general public and/or academic community that took us, literally, once more around the world with speakers from the Bay Area to Jerusalem and Melbourne. We entered more co-operations with partners on campus, in NC, the U.S., Germany, and Israel that will outlast the pandemic. In light of the relatively low vaccination rates in key parts of the country and new, more aggressive variants, we will also hold the 19th Martin and Doris Rosen Symposium on “Remembering the Holocaust” in late July online.
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Our main priority is to keep everyone safe. While we hope to be able to return to an in-person format in 2022, the Center staff is also excited about the improved accessibility of the symposium events. Even supporters who cannot come to the mountains will be able to participate easily on their computers or smart phones.
Now that restrictions are continually being lifted and the campus is gearing up for a largely in-person fall term, the Center will start to reintroduce some in-person and hybrid programming in line with the by now familiar safety precautions. At the same time, a course exchange with Western Galilee College is taking shape that will soon allow Appalachian State students to take (online) classes with Israeli colleagues and their students. Our Center library is growing rapidly with new acquisitions and donations, including many volumes that cannot be found in other campus libraries.

We are also continuing a number of Center-supported research projects with German and Israeli colleagues that will result in several publications with German and American academic presses in the near future. Overall, the state of the Center is strong. We are incredibly grateful for the support and generosity from so many friends and donors.
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Prof. Pegelow Kaplan can be reached at thomaspegelowkaplan@appstate.edu.
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