VIOLENCE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST
Worcester Telegram
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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During a visit to Worcester, scholar Donald Bloxham will take
the Holocaust out of the realm of the unique and discuss it in the
context of Europe’s history of violence in the first half of the 20th
century. Mr. Bloxham will make his presentation at 4 p.m. tomorrow in
the Rose Library at the Cohen-Lasry House at 11 Hawthorne St. on the
Clark University campus. The talk is free and open to the public. It
is sponsored by the Clark University Modern History Colloquium and The
Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Mr. Bloxham
will examine ways in which the Holocaust fits and does not fit into
broader patterns of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Mr. Bloxham is a professor of history at the University of
Edinburgh. At 34 years of age, he is the youngest full professor
in the United Kingdom. Mr. Bloxham’s 2007 book, "The Great Game
Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman
Armenians," won the Raphael Lemkin Award presented by the International
Association of Genocide Scholars.