Global Partnership Takes Aim at Rising Antisemitism
The USC Shoah Foundation announced a partnership with the Berlin-based Kreuzberg Initiative against Anti-Semitism (KIgA), a collaboration that will increase European access to testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and create wide-reaching programming to counter antisemitism.
XR Experience “Inside Kristallnacht” Takes Audiences Through Pivotal Moment in Holocaust History
The USC Shoah Foundation partnered with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) on the development and launch of Inside Kristallnacht, an innovative mixed-reality experience that presents audiences the events of Kristallnacht through the eyes of Holocaust survivor and activist Dr. Charlotte Knobloch.
AFH 2024
Legendary director Steven Spielberg sits down with NBC’s Jacob Soboroff on TODAY to share how his Shoah foundation is marking the 30th anniversary of “Schindler’s List” at the Ambassadors for Humanity Gala, honoring Holocaust survivors and bringing attention to atrocities happening around the world.
Jews, Money, Myth: The Medieval Origins of a Modern Stereotype
The standard narrative of Jews as moneylenders in medieval Europe gained prominence in the 19th and 20th centuries and persists today. How did this myth emerge as a response to modern political antisemitism?
Join us on December 5 as Professor Julie Mell, author of The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, challenges this narrative. She will explore its origins, revealing that it was not a reflection of social reality in medieval Europe but rather an outgrowth of Christian crusading and economic theology.