CJHS Director’s op-ed, “Stories of Jewish Heroism and the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’” was featured in The Jewish Journal on December 4, 2025.
You can read Dr. Fuller’s article here.
Dr. Adam Fuller Writes About Jewish Self-Defense Organizations in The Jewish Journal
CJHS Director’s op-ed, “The Rise of Jewish Self-Defense Organizations” was featured in The Jewish Journal on November 5, 2025.
You can read Dr. Fuller’s article here.
Dr. Adam Fuller’s Book “The Armed Jew” Featured in the Jewish News Syndicate
The Armed Jew: The Case For Jewish Gun Ownership was featured in the Jewish News Syndicate:
Dr. Adam Fuller’s Book Praised in Magazine, ‘Polyhymnia’
Clayman Professor Adam Fuller’s new book, The Armed Jew: The Case for Jewish Gun Ownership, was praised and recommended by the magazine, Polyhymnia, in a review, titled, “If Not Now, When?”
Kyle Starkey, Jesse McClain, and Adam Fuller Take Students to US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC
The 2025 annual bus trip to Washington, DC to visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was led by History professor Kyle Starkey, English adjunct Jesse McClain, and Political Science professor Adam Fuller on October 12. Two full busses brought YSU students and a few faculty members to DC to tour the national museum to learn about the Shoah. Kyle Starkey’s HIST 3788 (“The Holocaust”) students attended as part of a class project. Students across the university also attended. Political Science professor Cryshanna Jackson-Leftwich and Sociology professor Amanda Fehlbaum also joined the trip this year. The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies sponsors the USHMM bus trip annually, so if you missed out getting a seat this time, there will be more ahead.
Dr. Norman Goda spoke at YSU on September 29, 2025 to a packed audience
The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies partnered with the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation to bring prominent Holocaust historian to campus to give a public lecture titled, “Is Israel Committing Genocide? A Skeptical Approach.”
Dr. Goda gave a separate lecture on his book. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, to Kyle Starkey’s HIST 3788 class, “The Holocaust.”
Dr. Goda and Dr. Fuller outside the Youngstown Museum of Labor and Industry earlier that day:
Holocaust Historian Dr. Norman J.W. Goda Will Speak on Israel-Hamas War
“Is Israel Committing Genocide? A Skeptical Approach”
Please join us at Youngstown State University to hear renown Holocaust historian Dr. Norman J.W. Goda on the question of genocide in the Israel-Hamas war. The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies is co-sponsoring the event with the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation.
WHEN: September 29 at 5:00 PM
WHERE: DeBartolo Hall 132
Dr. Goda is the Norman and Irma Bramam Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Department of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of several books on the Holocaust, including:
Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path Toward America
Tales From Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War
Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War
The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918-1945
The lecture is free and open to the public. For questions of media inquiries, please email Dr. Adam Fuller at afuller@ysu.edu.
Dr. Adam Fuller’s “The Armed Jew” Reaches Amazon’s #1 in New Releases in Jewish History
The Armed Jew: The Case for Jewish Gun Ownership by CJHS Director Adam Fuller has been designated an Amazon “Hot New Release.” Read the full story.
