Speaking About Sexuality: Male Jewish Intimacy & Agency in Oral Histories - Florian Zabransky

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research presents this public lecture by Florian Zabransky (PhD candidate at the Weidenfeld Institute-Centre for German-Jewish Studies at University of Sussex, UK), the Center's 2020-2021 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow, presented on Zoom on April 6, 2021. The full title of the lecture is "Speaking About Sexuality: Male Jewish Intimacy & Agency in Oral History Interviews." The lecture was cosponsored by the USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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In this lecture, Florian Zabransky (PhD candidate at the Weidenfeld Institute's Centre for German-Jewish Studies at University of Sussex, UK) will discuss his research exploring the recurring theme of intimacy in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive's oral history interviews. Excavating the intimate experiences of male Jews during the Holocaust, he focuses on how intimacy is narrated and discussed in the interviews and analyzes the relationships, social dynamics, gender roles, hierarchies, and power relations at play. He reflects on the ways in which examining male Jewish intimacy adds new perspectives to our understanding of the Holocaust.