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2013 Ina Levine Annual Lecture

“Hitler’s Path to Power”
Dr. Sybille Steinbacher
Wednesday, March 13, 7–8:30 p.m.

Since October 2010, Dr. Sybille Steinbacher has been a professor of contemporary history at the University of Vienna, Austria.

In her lecture, she will focus on German society and its relation to the Nazi movement during the years of Hitler’s path to power, exploring the hopes and desires that the Nazis set free and how antisemitism became socially acceptable.

From 2005 to 2010, Dr. Steinbacher served in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. In 2010, she earned habilitation there, with venia legendi in modern and contemporary history, and was a visiting professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University’s Fritz Bauer Institute for the History and Impact of the Holocaust, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is author of Auschwitz: A History (Harper Perennial, 2006).

The Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Award, endowed by the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona, enables the Center to bring a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research on the Holocaust and to disseminate this work to the American public.

A reception follows the lecture. RSVP here.

This lecture has been made possible through the generosity of the William S. and
Ina Levine Foundation.

Past Lectures


Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
LECTURE
“The Holocaust and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Poland”
April 25, 2012
Mark Roseman
Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University

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LECTURE
“Saving Jewish Lives in the Reich: An Unknown Resistance and Rescue Network in the Heart of Nazi Germany”
March 17, 2011
Oleg Budnitskii
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences

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LECTURE
“Soviet Jewish Officers’ Encounters with Germany, 1945”
March 18, 2010
Antony Polonsky
Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University

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LECTURE
“Coming to Terms With the Dark Past: Confronting the Holocaust in Poland and Lithuania”
February 12, 2009
Michael Brenner
Chair of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich

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LECTURE
“In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Changing Image of German Jewry after 1945”
January 31, 2008
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
Head of the Center for Jewish Studies, Vice-Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies, and Professor of American and Comparative Literature at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland

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LECTURE
“Patterns of Return: Survivors’ Postwar Journeys to Poland”
February 15, 2007
Richard Breitman
Professor of History, American University, Washington, D.C.

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LECTURE
“Prelude to Catastrophe? The Roosevelt Administration and the Nazi Assault on the Jews, 1938-1939”
April 5, 2006
John K. Roth
Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and Director of its Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights

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LECTURE
“In the Shadow of Birkenau: Ethical Dilemmas during and after the Holocaust”
February 15, 2005
Aron Rodrigue
Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Stanford University
LECTURE
“Sephardim and the Holocaust”
February 19, 2004
Christopher R. Browning
Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill


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LECTURE
“Initiating the Final Solution: The Fateful Months of September–October 1941”
March 13, 2003
Berel Lang
Professor of Humanities at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut and Senior Research Associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York City


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“Uncovering Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust”
March 12, 2002