The Objects That Remain

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Live Phone Interview with Callers! https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2020-12-11/mon-9-am-deep-thoughts-on-loss-and-reminders-of-it Laura Levitt has been forced to think about loss in her life. She is a professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University and has written a book about American Jewish losses in the Holocaust. Levitt gets considerably more personal in her latest book, which tells her […]

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In this lecture opening the Center’s virtual art exhibition—Experience, Integration, Expression: The Work of Norman Klenicki—Dr. Levitt will discuss art as affording an opportunity to consider the lingering effects of trauma and loss, illness, and carrying on. She states, “Art helps us feel. It is affective and touches us impressionistically. It helps open us up […]

Building from her book, The Objects That Remain, Laura Levitt will consider the ways in which the material remains of violent crimes inform our experience of, and thinking about, trauma and loss. She will do this by considering artifacts in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and evidence in police storage facilities across the country. […]

This talk will consider what artistic and literary works, especially those created after the Holocaust can teach us about the Shoah, its memory and its commemoration. It will address some of the ways artist Mauricio Lasansky confronted this legacy in his haunting series "The Nazi Drawings" alongside other works of post-Holocaust art and writing. It […]