Lara Curtis, at The Blogs

Sep 4, 2024, 10:25 PM

A Literacy Program for Children in Israel Adapts to the Realities of Wartime

During my visit to Israel this summer I participated in a week-long travel seminar sponsored by the Florence Melton School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the main objective of which was to enable participants to meet Israelis and...

Aug 20, 2023, 6:08 PM

Perceptions of Jews: Budapest, Warsaw, and Krakow

While antisemitism is once again on the rise in the United States, its origins are still being debated. Concurrently, the “Never Again” phrase echoes throughout the post-Holocaust generation, as if to remind the world to value and cherish humanity,...

About Me

Lara's work focuses on a broad range of areas in Holocaust and Jewish Studies, and World literatures. Her first book, Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Noor Inayat Khan, Charlotte Delbo, and Germaine Tillion, was published in 2019. She teaches college courses on Holocaust literature and film at Springfield College. She recently participated in a seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for faculty members teaching college courses about Holocaust violence.