Kenneth D. Wald

Jun 18, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Mark Welch |Tamar Biala |Kenneth D. Wald

In her new book, Mira Bal­berg exam­ines the influ­ence and sig­nif­i­cance of mem­o­ry fail­ures in the lit­er­a­ture of the Tan­naim, the rab­bis whose views are record­ed in the Mishnah. Remem­ber­ing and for­get­ting are deeply embed­ded with­in Judaism. Some­times remem­ber­ing to for­get, some­times for­get­ting to remem­ber. How do we pre­serve mem­o­ry? Must we always remem­ber? Are there things and times we should for­get? Are there bless­ings and curs­es in each?

Mar 15, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Kenneth D. Wald

By – March 20, 2023 Ari Joskow­icz, a bril­liant young pro­fes­sor of his­to­ry, Jew­ish stud­ies, and Euro­pean stud­ies at Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty, grew up in Vien­na in the 1980s with four Holo­caust sur­vivor grand­par­ents. While they told him so many sto­ries that he devel­oped a vis­cer­al under­stand­ing of the grav­i­ty of their suf­fer­ing, he dis­cov­ered only years lat­er that pop­u­la­tions besides the Jews were vic­tims of the Nazi geno­cide as well.