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Tools for Teaching (& Research)

09/22/2017rdeblinger
More than a shiny new tool

I was invited to give a short presentation to a number of new graduate students today and because I frequently talk about the need to pair learning objectives with technology, I thought I’d share the slides here. I edited the… Continue Reading →

Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy Campus Presentation

Why use Digital Tools in the Jewish Studies Classroom

03/27/2017rdeblinger
Teaching with Digital Tools

Thanks to the Association for Jewish Studies for inviting Nathaniel Deutsch and I to share our experience teaching Jewish Studies with digital tools. It was an opportunity to reflect on all we’ve done in building a Digital Jewish Studies initiative… Continue Reading →

Alt Ac, Digital Pedagogy, Jewish History webinar

Magnes Pop Up Exhibition: Holocaust Memory, Walls, and Ephemerality

03/15/2017rdeblinger

Thank you to the Magnes Museum for inviting me to speak at one of their weekly Pop Up Exhibitions. It was an honor to think about the ephemerality of Holocaust memory and the need to balance memory with activism. The… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Memory, Uncategorized Public Presentation

Come for the JDC Archives Blog, stay for Eddie Cantor on Sound Cloud

09/29/2016rdeblinger
Eddie Cantor SOS Script, JDC Archives

I’m honored to be featured on the JDC Archives Blog today. I have explored the depths of their collection for many years and am thrilled that they invested so heavily in digitizing the whole of their archival materials. It’s a… Continue Reading →

Digital Archives, Digital Humanities, Holocaust Studies, Jewish History, UCSC Digital Jewish Studies, Jewish Organizations, Refugees, Technology

Alt-Ac Advocacy: Or, How to Search Beyond the Tenure Track

03/16/2016rdeblinger

It started right after I’d finished my degree: my advisor asked me to participate in a panel about career possibilities for Jewish Studies graduate students to introduce and represent a non-traditional career path. I had just received my PhD from… Continue Reading →

Alt Ac, CLIR Fellowship

I remember with disorientation and confusion

01/27/2016rdeblinger

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day – commemorated on January 27th in honor of the Russian Liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. Museums and organizations around the world honor this day of memory with speeches by dignitaries and survivors,… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Memory Holocaust Remembrance Day, HolocaustMemory

Special Issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Focus on Refugees

12/23/2015rdeblinger
Refugees at the Fort Ontario Refugee Camp, Oswego, New York, August 1944

Looking for more historical precedents to contextualize the current refugee crisis? Check out the special issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies on refugees – made available free from Oxford University Press. These essays help “narrow the gap between historical facts and rhetoric”… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Immigration HolocaustMemory, Refugees

Memories of Violence and Dreams of the Future

09/04/2015rdeblinger

DRAWING BY Ehsan, 10, from Afghanistan. His drawing “is in the future. My father works. The car is yellow since it’s a cab. That’s the cab my father will drive in Austria,” he says. from “Migrant Children’s Drawings From Hungary Train… Continue Reading →

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A History of Jewish Displacement & American Refuge

08/07/2015rdeblinger

HIAS has organized a campaign asking people to Stand up for Refugee Resettlement. You can (and should) TAKE ACTION NOW > In the wake of the Holocaust, when thousands of Jewish survivors and other refugees remained in camps, the United… Continue Reading →

Immigration HIAS, Jewish Organizations, Refugees

70 Years After Hiroshima: Remembering the power of personal narrative

08/06/2015rdeblinger

On August 6, 1946, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 80,000 people died immediately and thousands more in the aftermath. On that day, the world learned the devastating power of nuclear weaponry. As we mark… Continue Reading →

Memory Hiroshima, WWII

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