While I was writing my dissertation on Holocaust literature and film, my husband would often come home to find me sobbing over my research. I’ve been teaching the Holocaust at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for almost 30 years, and I still cry regularly while preparing for class. Sometimes I think, what an odd career I have
In Marquette University’s original statement following the Oct. 7 massacre, the school neither condemned Hamas nor mentioned terrorism. But in a new statement released almost one month after the attacks, Marquette did both. The university’s Oct. 10 statement, labeled “Praying for peace in the Middle East,” broadly referenced “devastating violence” and called for “an end
MILWAUKEE - Guests walked in, smiled at friends, and chose their side, like at a wedding ceremony. But at this Nov. 21 public event, at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, one side of the room tended to be pro-Palestinian, the other more pro-Israeli. And this was no simcha. This was an attempt at “Conversation on the
MILWAUKEE - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials report they have taken action, “to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” after the Chronicle contacted them for comment on anti-Israel emails sent by its Women’s & Gender Studies Department. The emails, promoting off-campus, anti-Israel events, arguably fanned the flames of antisemitism at a time when Jewish students nationwide