May 11, 2021 • 4:28 pm | Center News, Student/Alumni Spotlight
At the end of this term, the Peace and Genocide Education Club (PGEC) garnered another recognition by receiving the 2021 “Outside the Box” award from Appalachian State Club Council. The award recognized “an organization that continuously shows tremendous creativity...
July 16, 2020 • 12:17 pm | Center News, Publications
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, just published a new co-edited collection on Jewish petitioning during the Shoah with Dr. Wolf Gruner, the Director of the USC Shoah...
July 10, 2020 • 10:43 am | Center News
During the July 4 weekend, the car of an Appalachian State University student was covered with swastikas and racist slurs. The assailant(s) scratched the hate speech and images into the side and back of the car. The student, who is in Boone during the summer, had his...
May 22, 2020 • 9:15 am | Center News
Last year, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies introduced a new program that brings an established scholar and intellectual in JHPS to the Center, where the recipient will be in residence for the duration of a term, conduct research, teach a class, and...
May 18, 2020 • 12:57 pm | Center News
Before the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Center director Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan traveled to Germany to participate in an international conference on the role of the police during the Holocaust as well as one of the many initiatives to counter the rise in antisemitism in...
February 13, 2020 • 10:44 am | Center News
In partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies has launched its first faculty development initiative and invites ASU faculty members with an interest and/or working in Jewish, Holocaust or Peace Studies to...
November 18, 2019 • 3:19 pm | Center News
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies mourns the passing of Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz, a professor emerita of German literature at UNC Charlotte and frequent participant and speaker at Center events at ASU. Cernyak-Spatz, one of the very last adult...
November 13, 2019 • 4:27 pm | Center News, Publications
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, recently published a co-edited collection on Holocaust historiography with Dr. Juergen Matthaeus, the Director of Applied Research...
August 12, 2019 • 1:42 pm | Center News
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies just launched its new senior fellowship program. We welcome proposals from outstanding scholars based at an academic or research institution in North America or abroad, who work in the fields of Jewish, Hebrew,...
April 30, 2019 • 2:22 pm | Center News, Student/Alumni Spotlight
In March, five ASU students (with a minor in Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies) became the first recipients of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies’ new student travel grants for Israel. The students did research at Yad Vashem, the Central...
January 28, 2019 • 2:09 pm | Center News, Student/Alumni Spotlight
During the academic year 2018-19, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies (JHPS) newly introduced student travel grants for Israel. The grants — $1,500 per recipients — are designed to enable students to conduct research at...
October 29, 2018 • 12:34 pm | Center News
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies fully supports Yad Vashem’s statement on the deadly anti-Semitic attack by a European-American Neo-Nazi and white supremacist on Squirrel Hill’s main synagogue during Saturday’s Shabbat services....
October 14, 2018 • 3:20 pm | Center News, Research Spotlight
The Center offers several new student travel grants to conduct research in Israel and attend its first academic conference in Akko, Western Galilee, in March 2019. All enrolled ASU students who are seniors or juniors, work on topics in Jewish, Holocaust and Peace...
