Louis P. Singer Chair Programs
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 Lomasdonated $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 andHistory), thischair supports a distinguished senior faculty position in perpetuity, and adds substantially to the momentum and presence of the Jewish Studies Program.
2025-2026 Programs by the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair
Monday April 20, 2026
The CU and broader publics are invited to a talk by Barbara Steinmetz, a child survivor of the Holocaust, who managed to escape Hitler-controlled Europe to the Dominican Republic, and a survivor of the antisemitic Pearl Street Mall attack.
Join us at 4:40 pm in the Miramontes and Leonard Baca Education Building, room 155
Friday, March 6, 2026
Join us for a workshop on the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Germany.
A public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust
2024-2025 Programs by the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair
February 6, 2025
A public talk by Doris Bergen
March 18, 2025
A lunchtime talk by Barbara Steinmetz, a child survivor of the Holocaust, who managed to escape Hitler-controlled Europe to the Dominican Republic.
April 24, 2025
A public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust
April 24, 2025
A talk by Ofer Ashkenazi examining how German Jews used photography to document their lives under National Socialism.
2023-2024 Programs by the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair
October 17, 2023
OsiSladek, 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.
February 13, 2024
A research colloquium with Dr. Paul Nolte.
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.
February 27, 2024
Singer Chair Scholar Colloquium with Michael Berkowitz
February 27, 2024
A public talk by special guest scholar of the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History, Dr. Michael Berkowitz
April 1, 2024
Apresentation by Centropa founder Edward Serotta (Vienna, Austria).
April 15, 2024
A discussion of the path-breaking work on the German Jewish experience in the Third Reich byProfessor Guy Mironabouthis study of the significance of space and time in German Jewish life and responses to persecution in Nazi Germany.
May 1, 2024
ATestimony by Holocaust Survivor Otto Verdoner, hosted by the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History and the Program in Jewish Studies
May 6, 2024
A public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust
2022-2023 Programs by the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair
October6, 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
October 13, 2022
A public program revisitingthe 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.
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.
February 28, 2023
A presentation by Judith Winkel, who gave testimony about her struggles for survival at Mauthausen.
April 17, 2023
Yom HaShoah Lecture
Dr. Dorota Glowack
April 18, 2023
A public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust