A Conversation about Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

Jews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet their murder has not been recognized equally. The Jewish experience of genocide has increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and politicians in the postwar years, while the genocide of Europe’s Roma and Sinti remained out of the frame. Prof Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University), founder of the field of Critical Romani Studies and Prof Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University), author of the prize-winning book, Rain of Ash, will discuss Joskowicz’s exploration of the simultaneous suffering of Roma and Jews during the Holocaust, as well as the unequal yet necessary entanglement of their quests for historical justice and self-representation.