Creating Holocaust Memory Reworking Trauma for Future Generations

Part 1: The Evolution of Holocaust Remembrance and Commemoration

Introduction: What is Holocaust Memory?
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

1. The Changing Face of Holocaust Commemoration in American Modern Orthodox Synagogues
Jacob J. Schacter

2. Monuments of the Spirit: Creating Haredi Holocaust Remembrance
Michal Shaul

3. Holocaust Museums: Memory and Mission, Contemporary Challenges
Michael Berenbaum

4. Memorialization of the Holocaust in Visual Art: Eight Decades of Representation and Reflection
Batya Brutin

5. The Process of Creating Holocaust Remembrance by Musical Expression
Rachel Kollender

6. Creating Holocaust Remembrance Through Education
Mali Eisenberg and Yael Richler Friedman

7. Creating Holocaust Memory as an Intergenerational Hybrid Literature
Phyllis Lassner

8. Visual Mediations of Memory in Holocaust Graphic Novels
Victoria Aarons

9. New Media Memory: The Evolution of Holocaust Remembrance Across Media Platforms
Motti Neiger

10. How Should We Remember?: Cinema, Representation of the Holocaust, and Holocaust Survivors
Liat Steir-Livny

11. The Therapeutic Power of Holocaust Memories: Providing Psychosocial Support to Survivors and Their Descendants
Amit Shrira

12. Holocaust Remembrance and Commemoration among the Jews of the Sephardic Diaspora and Islamic Countries (1948–2024)
Yosef Charvit

Part 2: The Creating Memory Initiative

13. Introduction: What is Creating Memory?
Martin Herskovitz

14. Second Generation and Poetry: Creating Memory
Martin Herskovitz

15. The Holocaust Comes to Life: Creative Writing as a Path to Holocaust Memory in Sadnaot Habayit
Yotam Tolub, Ilana Zaidman, and Reut Ekshtein Blum

16. Mashiv HaRuach: Jewish-Israeli Poetry
Eliaz Cohen

17. Midreshet Be'er
Tamar Biton

18. Lifnei V'lifnim – the "Inner Sanctum": Center for Creation, Training and Development for Educators
Yishai Zinger

19. The Tarbut Movement and Creating Memory (Tnuat Tarbut)
Ofir Ben Ari

20. In David Grossman’s “Land of There”: Creating Memory through Art, Puppetry, and Second-Generation Narratives (Emunah Efrata Academic College of Arts and Design)
Zehavit Stern and Ora Zimmerman

21. An Artist Meets Testimony (Beit Theresienstadt)
Tami Kinberg

22. Innovative Educational Programs Using Creative Arts in the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum
Elad Arnon

23: Creators of Memory Journey – A Reflection and Purpose (Ein Hanatziv Seminary)
Ya'ara Wiedman Samuel

Biography

Martin Herskovitz is the son of a Holocaust survivor, a poet who manages a philanthropic fund and a Spiegel Fellow at the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research. He developed the "Creating Memory" initiative and funds innovative approaches in poetry, art, and performances to ensure the continuation of Holocaust Remembrance.

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has written and edited numerous books and articles about the Holocaust and its aftermath.