Community Corner
Temple Shalom of Medford Yom HaShoah
Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday, April 27, 2013 In commemoration of Yom HaShoah Temple Shalom's invites you to a talk by Professor Nancy Harrowitz
Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, among the most important voices to come out of the Holocaust, answer this question by urging us to consider the after effects of genocide and what dehumanization means to the human spirit and to civilization. They ask difficult and penetrating questions that make us reflect on the human condition in profound, unsettling, yet ultimately enlightening ways. This talk will address the importance of the memory work we find in Levi and Wiesel and its significance to us, more than 60 years later.
The talk will be preceded by minyan and a short Yom HaShoah remembrance service. Light refreshments will follow the talk.
Nancy Harrowitz teaches Italian literature and Holocaust studies at Boston University, where she is the Chair of the Department of Romance Studies and on the teaching faculty of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies.