Ilana Abramovitch sent this one to me -- she works at the museum (one of the folks who invited me to do the educator's conference last year) and is putting this program together. I'll be in D.C. but this looks great.
Sunday, March 21
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents:
Memory After the Holocaust
With Douglas Greenberg, Geoffrey Hartman,
Daniel Liebeskind, Leon Wieseltier,
Yosef Yerushalmi and James Young
Sixty years after the Holocaust, memories of Nazi-occupied Europe provide the raw material for histories, memoirs, works of literature, and art. Memory After the Holocaust features three conversations, with noted thinkers from across a variety of disciplines, that explore the ways in which Holocaust memory is preserved and passed from generation to generation.
1p.m.
MEMORY, HISTORY, AND THE JEWS
Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor, The New Republic, and Yosef Yerushalmi, Professor, Columbia University
2:30 p.m.
PRESERVING MEMORY
Douglas Greenberg, President and Chief Executive Officer, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and Geoffrey Hartman, Professor and Project Director, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
4p.m.
BUILDING & REBUILDING MEMORY
Daniel Liebeskind, Architect, and James Young, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
$10 adults, $7 members/seniors, $5 students
Tickets allow access to any part of the event.
TICKETS: On-Line at http://www.mjhnyc.org or call the box office at 646.437.4202
SUBWAY: 4/5 to Bowling Green, R to Whitehall, 1/9 to South Ferry
BUS: M1, M6, M9, M15
Edmond J. Safra Hall
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place in Lower Manhattan
646.437.4200
