Oakton Jewish Studies Highlights Nazis in Fiction

Join Jewish Studies at Oakton for a free presentation that sheds light on the use of Nazi figures in literature. This event takes place at the College’s Skokie campus, 7701 North Lincoln Avenue.

* Nazis Gone Mad! Adolf Hitler and Adolf Eichmann in American Fiction, Tuesday, December 3, at 11 a.m. (Room P103). How better to depict pure evil in fiction than using Nazi archetypes? Join Danielle Christmas, doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as she explores the genesis of this literary model through the lens of Robert Shaw’s The Man in the Glass Booth and Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil – which use characters based on Hitler and Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann.

This presentation is made possible with generous grants from the College’s Educational Foundation. For more information, contact Wendy Maier-Sarti, Oakton professor of history and coordinator of Jewish Studies, at (847) 635-1458 or jewishstudies@oakton.edu.