The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture on the Holocaust was endowed by the Meyerhoff family in 1994 to honor excellence in research and foster the dissemination of scholarly work in Holocaust studies. Meyerhoff Annual Lectures are free and open to the public. Since 2020, the Meyerhoff Lecture has been held in partnership with a university on its campus as part of the Regional Programming Initiative.
About Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff were active philanthropists, focusing especially on Jewish learning and scholarship, as well as music, the arts, and humanitarian causes. Their children, Eleanor Katz and Harvey M. Meyerhoff, endowed this lecture.
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The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is a leading generator of new knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust.