Lecture
Perspectives on the Holocaust in the Postwar Era

In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Downtown:
Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965

Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, NYU, will explore how and why American Jews in the decade or so after the end of World War II engaged with the memory of the Holocaust. She is the author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU Press). 

View video of the program here.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Humanities and Grey Art Gallery. 

Please note: Ulrich S. Baer, formerly listed as a second speaker in this program, is not able to participate
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Starts 2/8/17 6:30 pm
Ends 2/8/17 8:00 pm
Participants Hasia R. Diner
Location Center for the Humanities, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor
Cost Free. RSVP required.

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Program Types: Lecture