CORONADO, California (Press Release)-The Agency for Jewish Education continues its monthly Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series with Professor Oren Meyers of the University of Haifa. Meyers’ lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on Nov. 17 at 10:30 am. His lecture is titled, “The Shaping of the Israeli Memory of the Holocaust.”
The talk discusses the changing faces of Israeli Holocaust commemoration, and the various ways by which the memory of the Holocaust has been “Israelized” through the years. Early Israeli public Holocaust discourse was dominated by official voices and adhered to the prevailing Zionist ethos. In contrast, current Israeli Holocaust discourse is far more privatized, self-reflexive and at times highly critical.
Dr. Meyers is a lecturer in the Department of Communication, University of Haifa. He received his B.A. from the Hebrew University (1995). While studying in Jerusalem he worked as a reporter and an editor for two city newspapers. Later, he received an M.A. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2004) from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on journalistic practices and values, Israeli collective memory, popular culture and the security discourse in Israeli society. His studies have been supported by the Burda Center for Innovative Communications Research, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Israel Science Foundation and other foundations.
Future lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research.
In January, Professor Sandy Lakoff of UCSD will share a “Mid-East Update.” Professor William Propp, UCSD will speak on “Hard Women and Soft Men in the Hebrew Bible” in February. Other speakers include professors Ghada Osman, Glenn Levine and Rebecca Moore.
The Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series is a program of the Agency for Jewish Education and is free and open to the public.
For more information on this or future talks in the series, contact the Agency for Jewish Education, (858) 268-9200 ext.102 or www.ajesd.org
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