Professor David Shneer will give a public lecture on Monday, April 24 at the babyÖ±²¥app State Legislature in honor of Holocaust Commemoration Day 2017. In this lecture, Professor Shneer will talkÌýabout the Legislation's role in the Holocaust and what contemporary American can learn from it.Ìý
Professor David ShneerÌýis theÌýLouis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish HistoryÌýand Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies.ÌýHisÌýresearch focuses on 20th century European, Russian, and Jewish history and culture.ÌýHis newest book,ÌýThrough Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the HolocaustÌý(Rutgers University Press, 2011), finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and winner of the 2013 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Prize,Ìýlooks at the lives and works of two dozen Soviet Jewish World War II military photographers to examine what kinds of photographs they took when they encountered evidence of Nazi genocide on the Eastern Front.