When: Thursday, October 23, 2025 4:oo PM
Where: Humanities Quadrangle 136

This is now a hybrid event, you can view a livestream at:

https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UpQ7PB0pQWOOEHjfShPtXw

The Fortunoff Video Archive, Yale's Program for the Study of Antisemitism are delighted to announce a lecture by renowned scholar Annette Wieviorka. Wieviroka is Senior Researcher Emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. A scholar of 20th century Jewish history, in particular the Holocaust, whose varied works have been profoundly influential, in particular her book "The Era of the Witness" which was published in translation in 1998 by Cornell University Press.

Wieviorka has been a volunteer organizer and interviewer for the Fortunoff Archive's affiliated taping project in Paris and has served as an honorary advisory board member for decades.

In her lecture, Wieviorka will present a work in progress. According to Wieviorka, she's been "thinking about this book for about forty years, a biblical generation," but during the pandemic the project really gathered steam as she began gathering extensive documentation about her family - including testimonies. As this family archive began to take shape, Wieviorka initially planned to write a biography of her grandfather, Wolf Wieviorka, a Yiddish writer and journalist murdered in Auschwitz. But soon it evolved from a singular textual "tomb" for one family member into a history of her entire family, the maternal as well as the paternal sides. Wieviorka will share what we can learn from this "autobiography of a family" from her incisive, assumed point of view.

Bio

Annette Wieviorka is Senior Researcher Emeritus at the CNRS. She is the author of many works on the history of the Holocaust and its memory, in addition to the history of communism. Her works include: Déportation et génocide. Entre la mémoire et l’oubli (1992, 2003, 2013); L’ère du témoin (1998, 2013); Maurice et Jeannette. Biographie du couple Thorez (2010; 2016). Her intellectual journey was the subject of a book of interviews with Séverine Nikel: L’heure d’exactitude. Histoire, mémoire, témoignages (2011).

This event is supported by Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, Jewish Studies, and the French Department.