“America & the Holocaust: Immigration, Isolationism and Antisemitism”

4242 Campus Dr, Irvine, CA 92612 4242 Campus Dr, Irvine, CA, United States

The distinguished panel (Peter Hayes, Edna Friedberg, Jeffrey Kopstein) will examine major cultural forces that influenced Americans’ responses to Nazism in the 1930s and ‘40s while illuminating the complex and painful reality of widespread ambivalence toward victims of the Holocaust. Special welcome remarks provided by UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman.