Keeping Contact

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová is an associate professor of history and Jewish studies, and director of the Human Rights Program at Purdue University. She specializes in modern East Central European and Jewish history, with special attention to intergroup relations, refugees, and migration. She is the author of Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia, and her current book project examines temporalities of postwar Jewish displacement, dispersion, and diaspora. 
Jacob Ari Labendz directs the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He researches Cold War Jewish history with a focus on Jews in and from Czechoslovakia, cultures of diaspora and belonging, the state management of minority populations and their communal properties, as well as the politics of memory and antisemitism. He is the editor of Jewish Property After 1945 and coeditor of Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism.