ARCHIVED EVENT
Join noted scholar Dr. Robin Judd as she launches her book, Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust.
Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives, including those of the chaplains who officiated their weddings, the Allied authorities whose policy decisions structured the couples' fates, and the bureaucrats involved in immigration and acculturation.
Dr. Judd will be in conversation with Professor Birgitte Søland from The Ohio State University, an expert in European women's and gender history. Registration for this event is on Eventbrite. The admission fee is waived with the purchase of Between Two Worlds.
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JewishColumbus’ Womens’ Philanthropy, Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus, OSU Hillel, The Ohio State University's Department of History and the Melton Center for Jewish Studies are Gramercy’s Community Partners for this program.
