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March 2014

Monday March 31, 2014
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Kane Hall 220

Prof. Marianne Hirsch and Prof. Leo Spitzer

Jewish Studies

Lauren Spokane: laurenjs@uw.edu

Stroum Lectures 2014
Small Acts of Repair
Unclaimed Legacies, Forgotten Histories
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College)

What does it mean to survive or to inherit traumatic events that have failed to be worked through a longue durée of many decades? Our two lectures focus on historical catastrophes that have been forgotten or denied, that have eluded the assumption of responsibility, judicial recognition, or acknowledgment by both national and transnational bodies. We look specifically at the work and the reception of a number of writers and artists who were deported to Transnistria, an area that was annexed by Romania during the Second World War and became a “forgotten cemetery” in which hundreds of thousands of Jews and political prisoners perished. Yet, just as Transnistria’s history fails to fit common conceptions of Holocaust persecution and murder, much of the vibrant intellectual and artistic activity that took place in its ghettos and camps also largely fails to fit the paradigms of Holocaust art or literature. Transnistria’s artists from the wartime era, both visual and literary, remain little known. Our research into their work aims to illuminate this little known chapter of Holocaust history, while also asking larger questions about possibilities of repair and redress in the aftermath, and the needs of those of us who inherit these painful histories.

A reception will follow the event in the Walker Ames Room.

April 2014

Wednesday April 2, 2014
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Kane Hall 220

Prof. Marianne Hirsch and Prof. Leo Spitzer

Jewish Studies

Lauren Spokane: laurenjs@uw.edu

Stroum Lectures 2014
Small Acts of Repair
Unclaimed Legacies, Forgotten Histories
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth College)

What does it mean to survive or to inherit traumatic events that have failed to be worked through a longue durée of many decades? Our two lectures focus on historical catastrophes that have been forgotten or denied, that have eluded the assumption of responsibility, judicial recognition, or acknowledgment by both national and transnational bodies. We look specifically at the work and the reception of a number of writers and artists who were deported to Transnistria, an area that was annexed by Romania during the Second World War and became a “forgotten cemetery” in which hundreds of thousands of Jews and political prisoners perished. Yet, just as Transnistria’s history fails to fit common conceptions of Holocaust persecution and murder, much of the vibrant intellectual and artistic activity that took place in its ghettos and camps also largely fails to fit the paradigms of Holocaust art or literature. Transnistria’s artists from the wartime era, both visual and literary, remain little known. Our research into their work aims to illuminate this little known chapter of Holocaust history, while also asking larger questions about possibilities of repair and redress in the aftermath, and the needs of those of us who inherit these painful histories.