Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

At least 250,000 Roma were murdered by the Nazis between 1939-1945. After the war, discrimination against Roma continued all over Europe and this crime against the Roma was largely ignored. Author and historian Ari Joskowicz, in his new book, Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust, describes the postwar relationship between Roma and Jews and the efforts of the Roma to turn to Jewish institutions for recognition.
Join Ari Joskowicz and Ilana Cone Kennedy, Holocaust Center for Humanity, in a conversation that challenges us to rethink the way we remember the Holocaust.
Ari Joskowicz is a historian of European Jewry and the Holocaust with a special interest in the complicated relations between different minority groups. He is the chair of the Department of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches on the Holocaust and the history of antisemitism. His most recent book is called Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust, which appeared this spring and won the Frankel Prize for the year’s best book in Holocaust studies. He has held fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, among others.

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