Joint CJS for a hybrid event "The Other Holocaust: Care, Children, and the Jewish Catastrophe" with Prof. Sarah Cramsey in conversation with Elissa Strauss author of "When You Care."

The event will be held on zoom or in person at on February 25th, 11:30 AM the Collaborative Learning Space on the 2nd Floor of the GTU Library. 

Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey is the Special Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden University, an Associate Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden at Leiden University in The Netherlands. From 2025-2030, she is also  the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY, a project funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. She is a historian of central and eastern Europe, the global Jewish experience throughout historical time and the significant Jewish diasporas unleased from the lands between Berlin and Moscow as a result of the Holocaust, World War II and postwar events. She received her doctorate in late modern European history with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Since then, she has taught courses on modern European history, central and Eastern Europe, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University and the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her first book, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the “Ethnic Revolution” in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946, was published by the 'Modern Jewish Experience' series at Indiana University Press in 2023. It was named a Finalist for the "Ernst Fraenkel Prize for the best book on the Holocaust" by the Wiener Library and the 2024 Kulczycki Prize for the Best Book in Polish Studies from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Affairs. Her second book The Other Holocaust: Care, Children and the Jewish Experience is forthcoming with Indiana University Press

Elissa Strauss has been a journalist, essayist, and opinion writer for the past fifteen years. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Glamour, Elle, Allure, The American Prospect, and elsewhere. She’s been a contributing writer for CNN where she covered the culture and politics of parenthood, as well as at Slate, where she wrote on feminism and motherhood. From 2011–2017, she was the coartistic director of LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture in New York City, and in 2020, she launched a hub in the Bay Area, where she is currently the artistic director. She lives in Oakland, California, with her family.