Talks
Justice, Truth, and Memory in Jewish Argentina
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 5:00pm EST
Museum of Jewish Heritage
(Co-Hosted by the Museo del holocausto de Buenos Aires)
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After World War II, Argentina became home to one of the world’s largest communities of Holocaust survivors at the same time as the country provided refuge to many former Nazis. Today, this complex legacy of the Holocaust interacts with other legacies of violence in Argentina, including the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Explore issues of justice, truth, and memory in Argentina in this virtual program, which will be co-presented with the Museo del Holocausto de Buenos Aires.
The program will feature:
Dr. Natasha Zaretsky, a cultural anthropologist, Senior Lecturer at New York University, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, who recently published Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina with Rutgers University Press;
Diana Wang, a therapist and writer in Argentina who chaired Generations of the Shoah for 14 years and now serves on the Board of the Museo del Holocausto de Buenos Aires and the Advisory Board of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust; and
Ruth Messinger, longtime New York political leader and Global Ambassador and former President of American Jewish World Service
Truth, violence, and the public sphere
Raising Our Voices - American Anthropological Association
November 10, 2020
This roundtable addresses the politics of truth and the ongoing legacies of violence in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. In the aftermath of war, genocide, state terror, and human rights abuses, societies have turned to historical truth and memory as a way to grapple with the violence they suffered and find a way to rebuild the public sphere. Based on ethnographic research and human rights advocacy work around the world, this roundtable explores how truth has become a grassroots response and important form of advocacy. We also consider the role of ethnography and anthropology in understanding the impact and traces of violence in people’s lives and how they engage truth in reshaping their societies.
SITES OF RECKONING:
MEMORIALS, MUSEUMS, AND FRACTURED TRUTH(S) IN THE AFTERMATH OF VIOLENCE
MARCH 5-6, 2020
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Memorials and museums commemorating victims of mass violence, war, and genocide have long served as important spaces for societies to grapple with trauma and loss. Indeed, historically, they have served as important sites for truth telling and accounting for past violence. However, over the past half-century, they have proliferated, taking on increasingly global forms that have also become vehicles for emotional transformation – sites of reckoning for citizens and states. This symposium seeks to highlight these patterns of memorialization by interrogating the ways local artistic, cultural, and aesthetic particularities are imbricated with transnational influences, as they appear through aesthetic, functional, and narrative formations.
A View from afar:
Jewish memory and Culture Against Violence
OCTOBER 26, 2019
SEVENTH ANNUAL MAURICE AMADO LECTURE IN JEWISH ETHICS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE
How can Jewish cultural practices – activism, music, and memory – offer pathways for resistance in the face of rising antisemitism in the public sphere? Anthropologist Natasha Zaretsky will share how Jews in Argentina, the largest diaspora community in Latin America, have answered this question in the wake of the worst antisemitic attack since World War II, the 1994 AMIA bombing. From this transnational perspective, she will discuss what North American Jews can learn about belonging and resilience.