Eva Hoffman - 'AFTER GREAT WRONGS: Thinking about the Legacy of the Holocaust Today'

Award-winning writer Eva Hoffman will deliver the Leo and Sarah (Bunny) Horvitz Memorial Lecture, speaking about the pre-Holocaust past, especially with respect to Jewish life in Poland, and the post-Holocaust present, including themes ranging from terror attacks in Europe to the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. Dr. Hoffman is the author of many books, including Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), 'Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews' (1997), 'Time: Big Ideas, Small Books' (2009), and most recently 'How To Be Bored' (2017). The event is co-sponsored by the Center for East-European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Program in Creative Writing. A reception will follow.