Department of German and Russian Talk to Explore Nazism Through
German-Jews' Personal Writings - By LeeAnn Cox "Locating Nazi
Evil: German-Jewish Intellectuals Confront the Crimes of the
Third Reich" will be delivered by Professor Steven Aschheim of
Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. in
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill. "Ashchheim is an exceptionally
engaging speaker," says Alan Steinweis, professor of history and
director of the Center for Holocaust Studies. "He's very skilled
at making a serious subject entertaining. And he is without
question one of the world's leading historians of German-Jewish
intellectual history." Using remarkable diaries, letters and
lesser-known writings of three distinctive thinkers — Gershom
Scholem, Hannah Arendt and Victor Klemperer — the lecture will
examine their intimate reflections and what they reveal about
their evolving identities and world views as each wrestled with
new questions of evil and the meaning of being both German and
Jewish before, durin