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The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry

Thursday, May 18, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

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Join CWB and our partners as we explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses.

 “Holocaust Cinema: How ‘A Film Unfinished’ Questions Archival Footage”

Featuring Annette Insdorf

The growing genre of Holocaust Cinema includes films made by members of the third generation of survivors in Israel.

Insdorf will discuss two exemplary documentaries: “Numbered” (2012, Dana Doron & Uriel Sinai, Israel, 55 minutes) focuses on the tattoos of Auschwitz survivors – who view their numbers in unique ways – as well as the process of recording and representing survivors. “A Film Unfinished” is directed by Yael Hersonski (2010, Israel, 88 minutes). She juxtaposes archival footage of the Warsaw Ghetto – taken by Nazis throughout May 1942 – with a contemporary interrogation of whether images can be trusted.

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of the popular “Reel Pieces” series at Manhattan’s 92Y, where she has interviewed almost 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director’s work; Philip Kaufman, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, currently in its fourth printing.

Tali Nates

Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education, memory, reconciliation, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015), Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018), Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023).

In 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences, Monash University (IIEMSA), South Africa.

In 2010, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in

South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015), the Gratias Agit Award (2020, Czech Republic), the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022, Germany).

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Future Events in this Series: 

  • June 15 2023 Police and Military
  • September 21 2023 Judaic Studies
  • October 26 2023 Gender Studies
  • November 16 2023 Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials

Past Events in this Series:

  • February 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust
  • March 23 2023  Ethics and Law
  • April 27th 2023 Education
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