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justification by faith. Or, too, the very Lutheran concept of living a life of faith and interjecting it in the world. “It’s the idea of connecting your morality with your citizenship,” he said. This was, after all, what Martin Luther and the German Reformation was all about. It’s also what PLU is about. Halvorson knows – he’s seen it from both sides, as a student and a history professor. “When I first came here, I thought it was the biggest place in the world,” Halvorson said of his days as an
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when they became co-chairs of the Eastvold Leadership Committee along with Dick and Marcia Moe. Mayer is known to many as the author of his memoir, My Personal Brush with History (2009). One of his fondest hopes was that a German-language edition could be made available in the country he and his family fled those many decades ago, a country he had learned to respect for its eventual willingness to face up to its horrific past. Just two weeks before his death, Mayer was able to hold that edition
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are used regularly by PLU faculty members on campus as well as K-12 and community educators throughout the area. “The artifacts collection of the Scandinavian Cultural Center is an invaluable teaching resource for faculty members,” said PLU Associate Professor of German Jen Jenkins, Ph.D. “We bring classes in to see artifacts relevant to what we are teaching, such as Scandinavian immigration and music, and the students are mesmerized to get a firsthand look at some of the things they have only
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: Natalie Mayer Kirsten Christensen, Professor of German, PLU Lisa Marcus, Professor of English, PLU 12:40 - 1:35 p.m. – Spiritual Resistance (Regency Room, AUC)Heather Klein, songs by inmates of ghettos-performing songs “Why was this Seder different from all other Seders? –The Gurs Haggadah and Passover in a Concentration Camp” – Rabbi Bruce Kadden In 1941, Jewish inmates in the Gurs Concentration Camp in southern France were able to celebrate Passover using a Hagaddah handwritten by one of the
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ConferenceThe fifth annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference at PLU focused on the Nazi plunder of Jewish valuables, along with belated efforts at restitution. There was also session on German churches and universities, with speakers discussing Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Catholic Church, and postwar denazification.Learn more about the Nazi plunder of Jewish valuables 2011 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust EducationThe forth annual Powell-Heller Holocaust Conference focused on genocide, and personal
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Kristallnacht. Kurt published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012, a month before he died.
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Kristallnacht. Kurt published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012, a month before he died.
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Kristallnacht. Kurt published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012, a month before he died.
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Kristallnacht. Kurt published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012, a month before he died.
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Kristallnacht. Kurt published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012, a month before he died.
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