Remembering the Pandemic: Learning from Yehuda Amichai
Date: Jun 29, 2020 - Jun 29, 2020
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Sponsor: Online Learning
Location: Online
Category: Online Learning
Times of Crisis and Possibility: An Online Series With JTS Faculty and Fellows
Remembering the Pandemic: Learning from Yehuda Amichai
Monday, June 29, 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET
What will we remember from this pandemic? And how will we preserve and pass down the memory of those we’ve lost to future generations? Through a close reading of Yehuda Amichai’s “And Who Will Remember the Rememberers?”, a poem sequence exploring Israel’s memorialization of 1948, we will reflect on the elusiveness of memory, the limits of public forms of memorializing and mourning, and the paradoxical relationship between memory and forgetting.
With Dr. Barbara Mann, Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature, JTS.
Note: The Zoom link for this session will be in the confirmation email that you will receive after you register.
