Nazi Germany; the Holocaust; South Africa; racism; Apartheid; Israel; Jerusalem; Hebrew University; Zionism; Jewish youth movement (Habonim); UW-Madison Department of History; George Mosse; Stanley Payne; Sterling Fishman; Klaus Berghahn; Yehoshua Arieli; teaching; preliminary exams; Eagle Heights; German history; Jewish history; German Jewish history; the cultural turn; the ghetto; Hannah Arendt; assimilationism; Harvey Goldberg; Reed College; Portland, Oregon