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| March 24, 2014 |
Time:
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Pebble Hill
In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust is the first comprehensive state study of how southern Jews—and non-Jews—dealt with the coming
of the Good War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews. Puckett illustrates how intracommunity cooperation, the impact of the war and the murder of six million European Jews, and the establishment of the state of Israel built the foundation for closer cultural
and religious cooperation in Alabama in the decades that followed.
Dan J. Puckett is an associate professor of history at Troy University. Puckett has been a Starkoff Fellow at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and a Chancellor’s Fellow
at Troy University. He was appointed to the Alabama Holocaust Commission by Governor Robert Bentley, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Southern Jewish Historical Society and the editorial Board of Southern Jewish History.
The event is free, open to the public, and will be followed by refreshments. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and Congregation Beth Shalom.
For more information on the program, call 334-844-4903 or visit www.auburn.edu/cah.
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