Apr 15
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial) Observance
Please join us in the Carleton College Chapel, Sunday April 15, 5PM-6PM
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Following a short Jewish memorial service, open to all, will be a presentation by Carleton Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Stacy Beckwith, whose topic will be:
The Holocaust as Seen From Spain
Stacy Beckwith, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, will explore with us how the Holocaust has been seen from a country that has had little ongoing contact with Jews since the expulsion of Jews and Muslims in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Under fascist dictatorship in the 1930s and 40s Spain had a varied record of Jewish rescue, as well as a painful history of Spanish Civil War anti-fascist fighters being swept from refuge in southern France into Nazi concentration camps. Since the mid-40s, several former Nazis also settled along Spain’s coasts. Professor Beckwith will draw on her expertise as a scholar of comparative literature and collective memory to explore a range of recent Spanish novels that bring readers into proxy experiences of Holocaust alarm, pain, and loss.