3rd Annual Howard Jay Reiter Memorial Lecture with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi
Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi
Feb 6, 2025
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Beginning with the focal point of October 7, 2023, this lecture will address the challenges associated with the memory of difficult past events, especially when the aftermath is ongoing. Examining efforts to…
KATHRYN HELLERSTEIN is Professor of Yiddish and past Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books of translations are: …
In a now-class essay published in 1928, historian Salo Baron famously opposed what he termed "the lachrymose conception of pre-revolutionary woe," a vision of Jewish history that saw the premodern era as rife with…
