Name: Edad Mercier
Section: History and Politics
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Professional Status: Graduate Student
Institution: St. John's University
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Paper Title:  COLONIALISM, WAR CRIMES, COLLECTIVE MEMORY, AND MEMORY POLITICS: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON NARRATIVES AND PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF THE ALGERIAN WAR
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The article examines the trial of French General Paul Aussaresses (b. 1918, d. 2013) in the 2000s for war crimes committed during the Algerian War (1954 to 1962). The historiographical analysis covers topics such as colonialism, public memory, collective memory, counter-narratives, education, forgetting, and authenticity. This paper contributes to the scholarly literature examining oral testimonials in political and war crime tribunals, and the ethics of conducting public history research using media archives.

Name: harvey strum
Section: History and Politics
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Professional Status: Full Professor
Institution: 652
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Paper Title:  Albany's Jews: Kaddish for Abraham Lincoln
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Already been accepted, Will look at the Albany Jewish attempt to be accepted and not viewed as "the other." Jews were viewed as aliens in Christian America. Ever since their arrival in America Jews have walked a tightrope between maintaining their identity as a distinct religious/ethnic minority and their desire for acceptance as real Americans. Jews looked for opportunities to prove their loyalty and repudiate charges of either dual loyalty or questioning their place in American society, while maintaining their identity as Jews. Laying the cornerstone of Beth Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in Troy in 1909 Rabbi Hyman Lasker summed up the problem for all American Jews" "Let us be patriotic, American patriots, and Jewish believers. Let us teach our children to shed their last drop of blood for our country, America. Let them hold the Bible in one hand and the flag of the Stars and Stripes in the other." The question for Albany Jews was how to apply the advice of Rabbi Lasker, how did Albany's Jews sing Hatikvah and whistle the Star Spangled Banner?