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May 6, 2024, 7:18 AM
The Delusions of Holocaust Education
We see it everywhere in Holocaust museums and programming. “Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The quote, in various permutations, is attributed to American philosopher, George Santayana. And it rests on two foundational delusions. First,...
Dec 28, 2023, 7:50 AM
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Sleeping with Kafka
There is nothing I can do. It doesn’t matter what sin I committed. Or didn’t. It has been decided. I have to leave.
Oct 17, 2023, 11:09 AM
Both at Once: On Righteous Rage and Poison
I have been performing my play, Remnants, for over thirty years, now at over 300 venues worldwide, including Israel. The piece is a trajectory of monologues based on forty years of sustained conversations (not single testimonies) with individual Holocaust...
Jul 26, 2023, 7:03 AM
On Tisha B’av: The Limits of Mourning
Judaism exquisitely attends to the needs and necessities of grief. From the first moments after a death, we embrace the bereaved with nurture, presence, and respect for the time that genuine grieving takes. In general, we avoid platitudes and...
Apr 17, 2023, 7:12 AM
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The Holocaust’s empty rooms
For me, Yom Hashoah will always be about a loss and a grief that last far longer than memorial candles
Feb 27, 2022, 5:27 AM
Lviv by Siege or by Assault?
Lviv by Siege or by Assault? By the time I finish writing this, or by the time it is published, I could easily be proven wrong. Virtually everyone is predicting an imminent Russian assault on Lviv. Before an assault, I...
Nov 8, 2021, 9:40 AM
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Kristallnacht: Silence was not the problem
Condemnation, especially moralistic condemnation, easily fosters the illusion of 'doing something,' after which, one can return to not doing anything
Jul 28, 2021, 12:25 PM
Dark Landscapes: A Geography of Corrosive Times 3 – The Clearing
This is the third blog of three in the "Dark Landscapes" series I have been posting. "The Cliff" was published on July 17. "The Mountain" came out on July 21. This, "The Clearing," is the shortest and, perhaps, the...
Jul 21, 2021, 1:08 PM
Dark Landscapes: A Geography of Corrosive Times 2–The Mountain
Part II: The Mountain This is the second of three short pieces on engaging our times against the background of fifty years of teaching and writing about the Holocaust. The first piece, “The Cliff,” was published in the July 17th...
Jul 18, 2021, 7:08 AM
Dark Landscapes: A Geography of Corrosive Times(1)
I have been teaching and writing about the Holocaust for 50 years. Like most who know that history deeply, I am more than wary of analogies. This piece and two that will follow are not about analogies. They are...
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Henry (Hank) Greenspan is a psychologist and playwright at the University of Michigan who has been interviewing, teaching, and writing about the Holocaust and its survivors since the 1970s.
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