The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies partnered with the YSU ROTC, the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, and the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission to bring Dr. David Frey, Professor of History and Director of the Resnick Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Point Military Academy to YSU. Dr. Frey spoke to a large audience in the DeBartolo Auditorium on the history of the “Ritchie Boys,” a special unit in the U.S. Army during World War II for Holocaust refugees to go back to Europe and gather intelligence, helping the Allies defeat the Third Reich.

Please join Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz and the CJHS in congratulating Hannah Klacik on the submission and approval of her MA Thesis for a graduate degree in history at Youngstown State University. We appreciate her generosity in making it available here.

Hannah Klacík, “Architecture and Community: Congregation Rodef Sholom, Youngstown, OH” (MA Thesis, YSU, 2022).

Coverage of Dr. Adam Fuller’s Model Knesset at YSU in Youngstown’s “Jewish Journal.”

Dr. Elly Moseson joined us to deliver the last of three talks in our Emerging Scholars Lecture Series, which we co-organize with the Jewish Studies Program at Kent State University. For more information about our Emerging Scholars Lecture Series, click here.

Dr. Adam Fuller’s “Israeli Politics” course culminates in a Model Knesset (Israeli Parliament).

This semester’s Model Knesset will be held on April 18, 2022 at 5:00 pm at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Steel Museum). The event is free and open to the public. A light buffet dinner will be served.

For more information and videos, click here.