Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Presents

Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler

A Book Talk with Dr. Stefan Ihrig

Wednesday, April 25 | 7:30 pm

Covenant Theological Seminary, Rayburn Chapel
1233 Conway Road, 63141

“In his 2016 book, Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler, Ihrig turns specifically to the undeniably influential though historically neglected role of the  Armenian Genocide in German discourse on ‘the total annihilation of a people.’” -Harvard University Press

Stefan Ihrig is a Professor of History at the University of Haifa. He works on various aspects of European and Middle Eastern history with an interest in the media as well as political and social discourses. His most recent book, Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler, has been awarded the 2017 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for excellence in Armenian Studies.

For more information and to RSVP, call 618-277-6400 or email HolyShoghagat@sbcglobal.net.

This Community Book Talk is presented by the Thomas A. Kooyumjian Family Foundation and hosted by Metro St. Louis Committee for the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, Holy Virgin Mary and Shoghagat Armenian Church, St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church, the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, the Center for Jewish Learning and the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is generously funded by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and Hank Webber and Chris Jacobs.

Sh’ma: Listen! Advisory Committee Chair
Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman

Staff
Rabbi Tracy Nathan, Senior Educator, Center for Jewish Learning
Cyndee Levy, Director, Center for Jewish Learning

Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Gerald P. Greiman, Board Chair
Andrew Rehfeld, President & CEO