Lecture: Literary Responses to the Holocaust

Date/Time:	Wednesday, 03 Mar 2010 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Diversity Lectures
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"Postmen, Poets, and Priests: Literary Responses to the Holocaust," author Alan Rosen. What is literature's special contribution to addressing the Holocaust? Looking at wartime and postwar writing, the lecture will highlight some remarkable literary efforts in variety of styles, languages, and approaches. Among the writers considered will be Peretz Opoczinski, Avraham Sutzkever, and Art Spiegelman.

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Rosen is the author of Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism and the Problem of English; the collaborator on a French edition of I Did Not Interview the Dead, by David Boder; and the editor of Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night. He has held fellowships at the Center for Advance Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; and the Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently Rosen was a research fellow at the Foundation pour la Memoire de la Shoah. He earned his doctoral degree in literature and religion at Boston University.