In 2011, to honor a father who stoked their love of history and respect for civil rights, Boulder sisters and University of Colorado Boulder alumnae Midge Korczak and Leslie Singer Lomas donated $2 million to endow the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at the University of Colorado Boulder. Held by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (Jewish Studies and History), this chair supports a distinguished senior faculty position in perpetuity, and adds substantially to the momentum and presence of the Jewish Studies Program.
2023-2024 Programs by the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair
Holocaust Child Survivor Osi Sladek at CU Boulder
October 17, 2023
Osi Sladek, a Holocaust child survivor from Slovakia, gave testimony about his and his parent's suffering and survival in the Holocaust in the Slovak-Hungarian-Polish borderlands.
“Crisis or Transformation? From Good-old Democracy to Rough Democracy, ca. 1970-2020”
February 13, 2024
A research colloquium with Dr. Paul Nolte.
Degrees of Order, Measures of Freedom
February 13, 2024
Special talk by Dr. Paul Nolte, organized by the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington, in cooperation with the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Considering Jews, African Americans, and Africa in photography, television, and film
February 27, 2024
Singer Chair Scholar Colloquium with Michael Berkowitz
Jewish Women Photographers: undervalued quality and quantity
February 27, 2024
A public talk by special guest scholar of the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History, Dr. Michael Berkowitz
Collecting Testimonies, Facing War and Genocide in Ukraine
April 1, 2024
A presentation by Centropa founder Edward Serotta (Vienna, Austria).
Discussion and Book Signing with Professor Guy Miron (Open University, Israel)
A discussion of the path-breaking work on the German Jewish experience in the Third Reich by Professor Guy Miron about his study of the significance of space and time in German Jewish life and responses to persecution in Nazi Germany.
2022-2023 Programs by the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair
Surviving Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Ebensee: A Holocaust Survivor Gives Testimony
October 6, 2022
A Day of Testimony by Holocaust Survivor Zev Harel, Hosted by the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History and the Program in Jewish Studies
Renowned Historian Prof. Helmut Walser Smith in Conversation About Antisemitism in German Empire
October 13, 2022
A public program revisiting the analysis in his award-winning 2002 book The Butcher's Tale, which details the blood libel charges against the Jewish community in Konitz in 1900.
Religious Zionism: History, Impact, Relevance
February 15, 2023
Public Lecture by Prof. Kimmy Caplan
Religious Zionism is divided into several sub-groups which have very little in common, if at all. Prof. Caplan offers an overview to understanding contemporary Israeli society.
A Child Survivor of Mauthausen Concentration Camp Gives Testimony: Judith Winkel at CU Boulder
February 28, 2023
A presentation by Judith Winkel, who gave testimony about her struggles for survival at Mauthausen.
‘A Vanished World’: Cultural genocide and the destruction of Central and Eastern European Jewish Heritage during the Holocaust
April 17, 2023
Yom HaShoah Lecture
Dr. Dorota Glowack
Yom HaShoah with Public Readings
April 18, 2023
A public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust