Tag: Jewishhistory

Season 8 Episode 1- “Written by Heart’s Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive”with Amber Nickell, Chelsea Kiefer, Sarah Keiss, and David Solis

Sheva, Soloman, and Basenka Kantsedikas

In the first episode of season 8, Hollie visits with some familiar friends of the podcast: Dr. Amber Nickell, Sarah Keiss, Chelsea Kiefer, and David Solis. They discuss their digital humanities project, “Written by Heart’s Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive.” This project, available here, involved collecting data from a collection of letters between a Soviet Jewish couple during World War II. The Kantsedikas Family Letters Collection at Blavatnik provides a window into the experience of this couple as they navigated the war, love, parenthood, seperation, and various struggles.

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S3 Episode 7- Poland 2023- Students discuss study abroad

Students and Ms. Marquess in downtown Warsaw

In our final episode of this semester, Dr. Guha is joined by Dr. Nickell and Hollie Marquess, along with three students who went on their study abroad to Poland trip in March 2023. History majors Alex White, Sarah Keiss, and Ashlyn Carlson discuss their experience of learning about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland. Of course, we also discuss pierogis!

Dr. Nickell and a peirogi

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FHSU students at Cafe Bergson in Oswiecim

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