Kristallnacht Memorial Lecture to be Held Nov. 7

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The Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (IHGMS) will host its annual Kristallnacht Memorial Lecture, “[Re]Thinking Jewish Heritage: Opportunities and Limits Amidst Openings and Closings,” by Daniel Walkowitz, on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m.

Illustrated with slides, the lecture displays the possibilities, challenges, disappointments and surprises that frame the robust and changing terrain of Jewish heritage today in cities such as Kiev, Krakow, Berlin, Warsaw, Lviv, Lodz, Bucharest and Belgrade to London and New York and two shtetlekh in eight countries.

Walkowitz, professor emeritus of history and social and cultural analysis at New York University, is a social and cultural historian who is in nearly a dozen books, two dozen articles and four films for public television pioneered efforts to bring America's past to broad general audiences in books, film and video. He brings together his interest in history and memory in his most recent book, “The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States.”

The event will be hosted at the IHGMS building at 758 N Pleasant St., Amherst.