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<p>Please join us in welcoming <strong>Leo Spitzer</strong><b>,</b> as a William Rosenberg Senior Scholar, thanks to funding from the <b>Claims Conference</b>.</p> <p><strong>Spitzer</strong> is Vernon Professor of History Emeritus and Research Professor at Dartmouth College. He writes about responses to imperialism, Jewish refugee memory, and traumatic witnessing and its transmission. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies. His books include <em>Lives in Between:</em> <em>Assimilation, Marginality, Exclusion in the Era of Emancipation</em> (1989) and<em> Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism </em>(1998). 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