Published: May 28, 2015
David Shneer

David Shneer,ÌýLouis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish HistoryÌýand Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, has a busy summer in store for him. He will be making his annual pilgrimage to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst in June to serve on the faculty of theÌýÌý including one of CU’s own Jewish Studies undergraduate students, Alexis Aeang. After that, he will serve as the historian-in-residence on theÌýÌý an immersive travel program to historic Lithuania produced by Yiddishkayt LA. If that wasn’t enough, he will then travel to Japan to participate in the International Council for Central and East European Studies’ÌýÌýin Chiba, Japan, at which he will present research related to his new book project,ÌýGrief: The History of the World’s First Holocaust Liberation Photograph.Ìý