The Jack Buncher Chair in Jewish Studies promotes learning and academic inquiry about all aspects of Jewish history through distinguished guest lecturers, artistic performances, workshops and teaching. Through close collaboration with the Centropa oral history archive & Centropa.org, including through teaching and a range of public history programs and projects, the Buncher Chair advances the visibility and use of this invaluable resource among students, scholars, educators and the wider public.

For more information, contact the Jack Buncher Professor of Jewish Studies, Michal R. Friedman, mrf25@andrew.3327e.com.

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Through spatial reality, Flaws portrays the conceptions, fantasies, ideological assumptions, and memories of Treblinka from witnesses in the camp and surrounding towns. To do so he identifies six key spaces that once composed the historical site of Treblinka: the ideological space, the behavioral space, the space of life and death, the interactional space, the sensory space, and the extended space. By examining these spaces Flaws reveals that there were more witnesses to Treblinka than previously realized, as the transnational groups near and within the camp overlapped and interacted. Spaces of Treblinka provides a staggering and profound reassessment of the relationship between knowing and not knowing and asks us to confront the timely warning that we, in our modern, interconnected world, can all become witnesses.