David Silberklang, Ph.D.
Public Lecture: "What Don't We Know? Unanswered Questions from the Holocaust"
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
4:00 p.m. reception; 4:30 p.m. Presentation
1914 Lounge, Thwing Center, 11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Information: (216) 368-8961
Much has been researched, analyzed, and written
about the Holocaust in the last 60-plus years. The Holocaust is, arguably, the most extensively researched event in history. Yad Vashem's library alone contains some 110,000 book titles and many thousands more articles relating to the subject. Indeed, many may wonder if there is any major aspect of the Holocaust that remains to be studied. Based on the extant voluminous scholarship on the Holocaust, this talk argues that there are many outstanding fundamental issues to be researched and explained, enough to keep the scholars and thinkers busy for many years to come. We have barely scratched the surface.
David Silberklang is the Rosenthal Visiting Fellow for Spring 2007 for Case Western Reserve University's Judaic Studies Program. David Silberklang is a senior historian at Yad Vashem, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Studies, a leading scholarly journal on the Holocaust. He is also a lecturer in Jewish History in the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has taught graduate seminars in the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at Hebrew University as well. At Yad Vashem, he is also Series Editor of the survivor memoir series – the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project. In April 2006 he was appointed Israel's representative on the Academic Working Group of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.
Sponsored by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case.
