Holocaust Remembrance Day: IU experts available to comment

Halina Goldberg is a professor and the chair of musicology in the Jacobs School of Music, and an affiliate of the Borns Jewish Studies Program, Polish Studies Center, Institute for European Studies, and Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, all at IU Bloomington. Her interests focus on the interconnected Polish and Jewish cultures. She also directs the digital project, Jewish Life in Interwar Łódź.

Günther Jikeli, a historian and sociologist of modern Europe, holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at IU’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at the Borns Jewish Studies Program. He is also an associate professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at IU and leads the research lab Social Media & Hate.

Alvin Rosenfeld, the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at IU Bloomington and professor of Jewish studies and English in the College of Arts and Sciences, founded and directs the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at IU. He founded Indiana University’s Borns Jewish Studies Program and served as its director for 30 years.

Mark Roseman, director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at IU Bloomington, is a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the history of the Holocaust and in modern German history

Since 1989, after a year in Israel, Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg has been executive director of the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center at Indiana University. In April 2022, she was appointed director of the Jewish Culture Center. Silberberg is also committed to promoting diversity on campus. She helped found Bloomington United, a grassroots community organization dedicated to building diversity and responding to incidents of hate in Bloomington.