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Post Image for Professor Morowitz' book on Art in Nazi Vienna released in August
July 12, 2023
“So much has been written on the way the Nazis used art in Germany, but very little on art in Nazi Vienna, and almost nothing at all in English,” notes Dr. Laura Morowitz, whose forthcoming book, Art, Exhibition and Erasure (Routledge, 2024) sets out to change that. Morowitz has been a Professor of Art History […]
 
Post Image for WCHC GIFTED WITH PAINTING BY ARTIST MENDEL SCHLEIFER, MURDERED IN THE HOLOCAUST
June 14, 2023
Sari Kingsley never got to meet her mother's brother, Mendel Schleifer, but all her life felt a strong connection to him. Her connection was embodied by a painting that her Uncle Mendel painted as a handsome young men and which he sent to her mother in New York in 1938. Less than one year later […]
 
Post Image for Wagner’s Chai Society Chair, Fern Aaron Zagor, to be awarded by JCC
March 8, 2023
In her welcoming letter to an international community of Holocaust scholars on our campus, Fern Zagor–tireless and devoted Chair of the Wagner College Chai Society–wrote of “...the courage of the spirit, daring to believe in the future against unfathomable, indescribable odds.” Fighting for social justice and to protect those less fortunate has always been a […]
 
December 10, 2013
Want to know what conditions are like on campus at this very moment? Check out our webcam, below, which looks out from the Union roof across Trautmann Square toward the library and Main Hall: