Online webinar: True to My God and Country, by Françoise S. Ouzan
Live on Zoom
The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center is proud to present Dr. Françoise S. Ouzan’s new book:
True to My God and Country
How Jewish Americans Fought in World War II
Published by Indiana University Press, as part of the collection "Studies in Antisemitism", edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld.
We are pleased to invite you to join an online webinar with the author, Dr. Françoise S. Ouzan, a Senior Research Associate at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University, organized by The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA).
The event will take place on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 12 noon ET (US and Canada), 6 PM CET (Brussels), 7 PM IST (Jerusalem).
Please register in advance:
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The book explores the role of the more than half a million Jewish American men and women who served in the military in the Second World War. Patriotic Americans determined to fight, they served in every branch of the military and every theater of the war.
Drawing on letters, diaries, interviews, and memoirs, True to My God and Country offers an intimate account of the soul-searching carried out by young Jewish men and women in uniform. Ouzan highlights, in particular, the selflessness of servicewomen who risked their lives in dangerous assignments. Many GIs encountered antisemitism in the American military even as they fought the evils of Nazi Germany and its allies.
True to My God and Country examines how they coped with anti-Jewish hostility and reveals how their interactions with Jewish communities overseas reinforced and bolstered connections to their own American Jewish identities.
The book is available for purchase HERE
Dr. Françoise S. Ouzan webpage
