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Lecture: “The Ghetto in the Holocaust—Evolution, Characteristics, and Vicissitudes”

June 9, 2017
On June 8, 2017, the Pocitos Campus hosted a lecture titled “The Ghetto in the Holocaust—Evolution, Characteristics, and Vicissitudes,” presented by Dr. Efraim Zadoff, a secular humanist rabbi from the International Institute of Secular Humanist Judaism—Tmura Israel.

The event was organized by the Department of Jewish Studies. The speaker discussed various aspects of life, struggle, and survival within the ghetto.

Rabbi Zadoff holds a Ph.D. in History from Tel Aviv University. He is a research associate at the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute for Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. He is a member of the executive committee of the Council of Secular Humanist Rabbis of Israel—Merjav.

He is the editor of the website "Secular Judaism – A Humanist Online Community."

He is the author, writer, and translator of numerous books and academic articles on topics related to Jewish history. He is a writer and editor of the Encyclopedia of the History and Culture of the Jewish People and of *Shoah: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust*. He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Ghettos in the Holocaust, Yad Vashem.

Interview with Dr. Zadoff conducted by journalist Jaime Clara on the program Al Pan Pan on Radio Sarandí on June 8, 2017 (Part 1) (Part 2)