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CISMOR Seminar

CISMOR Seminar series (no.1/ 2019)

“Are Catastrophes Inherited? The Case of the Second Generation of the Holocaust”

Date: 2019/06/03 16:40-18:10
Place: Shisei-kan meeting room (3rd floor), Imadegawa Campus, Doshisha University
Speaker:
  • Prof. Yigal Schwartz (Professor at the Department of Hebrew Literature Founding Director of the Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature & Culture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Summary:
The seminar will look at the effect of Holocaust trauma on the children and grandchildren of the surviving generation. It will start with the screening of the documentary film “Shadows”, and continue with Prof. Schwartz discussing it from personal and a generational perspective.