No Birthday Party this Year: Kristallnacht within the Memories of Shanghai Jewish Refugees

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, German Historical Institute Pacific Regional Office, Center for Jewish Studies

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The night of November 9-10, 1938 changed the lives of Jews in Germany forever. Using interview testimony he has collected over many years, Prof. Ostoyich discusses the role Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) has played and continues to play in the memories of Shanghai Jewish refugees.

Prof. Kevin Ostoyich is Professor of History at Valparaiso University, where he served as the chair of the history department from 2015 to 2019, was bestowed the Teaching Excellence Award in 2017-18, and is presently the recipient of the Dixon W. and Herta E. Benz Fund for Faculty Support. He currently is serving as Distinguished Professor for Shanghai University and a senior fellow at the GHI PRO/UC-Berkeley. Earlier this year he served as a visiting fellow at Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is a board member of the Sino-Judaic Institute, an inaugural member of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum International Advisory Board, a board member of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, and a non-resident fellow of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He has published on German migration, German-American history, historical pedagogy, the Holocaust, and the Shanghai Jews.

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