The first New York project in a nationwide series of intensive college campus programs on the holocaust organized by the American Zionist Youth Foundation University Service Department, will take place on April 7-9. Eighty selected N.Y.-N.J. metropolitan Jewish college students will participate in a weekend seminar at Hechalutz Farm, in Hightstown, N.J., led by five distinguished lecturers and discussants.
They are Prof. Raoul Hilberg of the University of Vermont, author of “Destruction of European Jewry”; Prof. Henry Feingold of the College of the City of N.Y., among whose published works is the “Politics of Rescue”; Avraham Yekel, former partisan and resistance fighter, who now directs the “Center for Peoples Culture” in Israel; Arik Carmon, Ph.D. candidate in the Nazi period of history at the University of Wisconsin; and Prof, Samuel Abrahamsen, acting chairman of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, authority on the rescue of Danish Jews.
William Levine, executive director of AZYF, noted that “intensified Jewish student interest in the holocaust reflects a return to the realm of history for existential answers to the eternal twin dilemmas – identity and belonging. They pursue their present and their future in their Jewish past.” The seminar, organized at the request of some of the participating students, will serve as a model and stimulus for student projects on campuses across the country. The projects will be related to Remembrance Day for the six million Jewish martyrs and heroes to be observed on April 11.
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