Killing Time, Saving Time: Calendars and the Holocaust with Dr. Alan Rosen

The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education
is pleased to be hosting Dr. Alan Rosen on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4 p.m. in the Bush Conference Center, Beckman Hall 404.

Dr. Alan Rosen’s lecture titled, “Killing Time, Saving Time: Calendars and the Holocaust,” will examine the intriguing and complex questions in the context of the Holocaust when Jews in ghettos, camps, and in hiding were compelled to develop innovative strategies to track time, maintain continuity with the past, and envision a future.

Dr. Rosen is the author of Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English and the editor of Approaches to Teaching Wiesel’s Night. His most recent book, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Interviews of David Boder, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

Dr. Rosen lives in Jerusalem where he lectures frequently at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. Dr. Alan Rosen Author of Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure, and the Invention of Genre and The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Interviews of David Boder