Ms. Sylvia T. Karges training programs as Director of the Comprehensive Instructional A native Berliner, Ms. Sylvia T. Management System of New York Karges earned her Master’s degree City. He later served in a number of at the History Department of the public capacities that included Chief Freie University of Berlin, where she of Staff to U.S. Congressman Gary ACRL/NY New York Section is currently a PhD candidate. Her L. Ackerman, Executive Director of & dissertation focuses on anti-Semitic the Metropolitan Region of the Friends of the Kurt R. Schmeller motifs found on German coins, American Jewish Congress and Chief medals, and paper money. The of Staff to New York City Council Member David I. Weprin. His career has development of the depicted anti- Semitic stereotypes across the included budget design, legislative centuries constitutes her center of development, fund raising and “Providing Knowledge, Promoting interest. In her Master’s thesis she community relations, as well as Understanding” studied anti-Semitic motifs on three months as a volunteer in the German emergency money from the Israeli Army. He is the author of the QCC, City University of New York 1920’s. For her research on this topic Laidlaw Brothers Social Studies Reading she received a grant from the DAAD, Series. Dr. Flug has been a Seminar which made it possible to study the presenter at a variety of Association large emergency money collection at for Supervision and Curriculum Teaching the Holocaust, the American Numismatic Society. Development Conferences as well as After her graduation she started Holocaust conferences. In addition, Genocide and War: working at the American he is a frequent speaker at various Resources and Services Numismatic Society as Curatorial organizations dealing with the Assistant, where she has been for Holocaust and other hate crimes and the past three years. has led groups on tours to Poland and Yad Vashem. He earned his BA in History from Queens College, an Dr. Arthur Flug MS in Administration from Pace The Harriet & College and an Ed.D. from Teachers Since 2005, Arthur Flug has served College, Columbia University. Kenneth Kupferberg as the Executive Director of the Holocaust Resource Center Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Co-Moderators: Dr. Barbara Bonous- and Archives of Holocaust Resource Center and Smit, Prof. Sandra Marcus & Prof. Queensborough Archives at Queensborough Constance Williams Community College, City Community College. Blending University of New York educational and community service, Special Thank You To : he first served as a teacher and Neera Mohess, Stefka Tzanova,Lawrence 222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11364 building administrator in the New Chan, Carmita Semanate, Thomas York City school system. He went on Shemanski, Ramon Perez, and Phillip Friday, May 21, 2010 to develop curricula and teacher Roncoroni For their help ….. 8:30 am to 12:00 noon Agenda Presenters Dr. Ann Kirschner Dean of Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York and 8:30 am - 9:00 am Dr. Susan Jacobowitz a frequent contributor to conferences Breakfast & Registration and publications, Dr. Ann Kirschner Susan Jacobowitz is an Associate was named one of New York 9:00 am – 9:15 am Professor of English at Magazine’s “Millennium New Welcome Greetings Queensborough Community College, Yorkers” and honored as a Prof. Jeanne Galvin City University of New York, where distinguished graduate of Princeton Chief Librarian she teaches Introduction to University and the State University Literature, Exploring Graphic of New York at Buffalo. She serves 9:15 am – 9:45 am Genres and Contemporary on the Board of Directors of Apollo, Teaching the Holocaust, Literature in English. She earned Public Agenda, the Jewish Women's Genocide and War: Graphic her Ph.D. in English and American Archive, Open University of Israel, Primary Texts and Resources Literature from Brandeis University the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Dr. Susan Jacobowitz , where she wrote her dissertation on Advisory Council at University of second generation experience. Virginia, the Princeton University Recent publications and Break Graduate School Leadership presentations include work on Council, and the Princeton second generation literature and University English Department 10:00 am – 10:30 am performance art, Australian Jewish Holocaust Numismatics – An Advisory Council. writers and the Australilan Dr. Kirschner is the author of Overview immigration experience, graphic SALA’S GIFT (Simon and Ms. Sylvia T. Karges genres and the conflicts and Schuster/Free Press, 2006), the story challenges of modern Jewish of her mother’s wartime rescue of 10:30 am – 11:15 am identity. Articles have appeared in letters from Nazi labor camps, Archival Material and Services: Shofar, Studies in American Jewish published also in German, Polish, The Harriet & Literature and The Australian Italian, French, and Chinese Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Journal of Jewish Studies; she has editions. The original letters are in Resource Center and Archives also contributed essays to Reading the permanent collection of the New Dr. Arthur Flug Down Under: Australian Literary York Public Library, and are the Studies Reader, Companion to subject of a traveling exhibit in the 11:15 – 11:45 Australian Literature after 1900, Art United States and Europe, a Whose Story is it? Public and Spiegelman:Conversations, theatrical play by Arlene Hutton, Private Holocaust History Parenting and Professing: Balancing and a documentary film by Murray Family Work with an Academic Dr. Ann Kirschner Nossel. Her next book Tombstone to Career and Jewish Women’s Hollywood: The Adventures of Mrs. Writings of the 1990s and Beyond in 11:45 Questions and Closing Wyatt Earp, will be published by Great Britain and the United States. Harper Collins/Smithsonian. .