Three public lectures are being offered by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in October and early November.
The Tobias Lecture — sponsored by Marjorie and Harry Tobias — will present “The Holocaust in Visual Memory” on Thursday, Oct. 23, 5 p.m., at the Union South, 1308 W. Dayton St.
Barbie Zelizer, professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss how the Holocaust was visualized in the news and how it has been sustained in the depiction of other genocides over time.
Gary P. Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, will deliver two Kutler Lectures — sponsored by Sandra and Stanley Kutler — in early November.
The first on Monday, Nov. 3, 4 p.m., is titled “He Was Just Like One of Us — Abraham Lincoln and American Jewry.”
The second on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 4 p.m., will discuss “The Reform Jewish Impulse in America and Germany: A Comparative Analysis.”
Both will take place at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.
Admission is free to all three events. For more information, visit jewishstudies.wisc.edu or call 608-265-4763.
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