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'The Words, Too, Will Nourish' : Poetry and Resistance" Workshop with Alan Rosen

Young Student Center - Mountain View Room
Thursday, · -

How (and what) does poetry resist? Can it properly be described as a form of spiritual resistance? Or does victim writing during the Holocaust solicit a category of its own? Can we say, moreover, that poems written in the aftermath of the Holocaust also resist—and, if so, what? The session will hope to address these and related questions, drawing on among others the nourishing words of Avraham Sutzkever and Elie Wiesel.

Presenter: Dr. Avraham (Alan) Rosen is the author or editor of eleven books.He is most recently the author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (Oxford UP, 2010; updated paper edition 2012),and Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism and the Problem of English (U of Nebraska P, paper 2008); and the editor of Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives (Indiana UP, 2013, finalist, National Jewish Book Awards) and Literature of the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2013, also a finalist, National Jewish Book Award).

He was a research fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah from 2006-2009. He has also held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and the Archives for the History of American Psychology, University of Akron. In 2013, he served as the Wilkenfeld Scholar in Holocaust Education in Sydney, Australia. He has taught at universities and colleges in Israel and the United States, and lectures regularly on Holocaust Literature at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies and other Holocaust study centers. Recent lecture venues include Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and a keynote address at a Leeds University conference on “Jewish Exile and the Arts.” Born and raised in Los Angeles, educated in Boston under the direction of Elie Wiesel, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and four children. He has just completed his book manuscript, “Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy: The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars.”

Registration deadline is October 26.

$70
Contact:
Thomas White
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358-2746
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