Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies to host Jonathan Wiesen webinar Sept. 19

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Penn State Harrisburg's Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will host Jonathan Wiesen, professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, at noon on Friday, Sept. 19 via webinar. He will discuss the comparisons, contrasts and controversies between Nazi Germany and Jim Crow racism in the United States.

The webinar is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Register on the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies events page or directly through Zoom.

A specialist in modern German history, Wiesen is the author of several books, including "West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955", which won a book prize from the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference, and "Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich." His most recent book is "Nazi Germany: Society, Culture, and Politics."

His scholarship has appeared in Central European History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, and the German Studies Review. His article, "American Lynching in the Nazi Imagination: Race and Extra-Legal Violence in 1930s Germany," published in German History, received the 2020 Hans Rosenberg article prize.

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