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