Wednesday 25 October, 4-5:30pm, OC1.03

Justin Cammy (Smith College, MA): ‘From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg’

In cooperation with the Centre for Global Jewish Studies

A discussion of the ghetto memoir (1946) and testimony of Abraham Sutzkever, one of the great Yiddish poets to emerge from the Holocaust, translated into English by Justin Cammy. Why was the memoir ignored by critics and even by the author himself for so long? And why should we look anew at early post-liberation efforts to document events that established a foundation for both justice and collective memory?