Sara Horowitz, Professor of Humanities and Director of the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto, is one of the world’s leading scholars of Holocaust literature. The author of the path-breaking book Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (1997), her lecture will reappraise the importance of Anne Frank in light of contemporary discussions of Holocaust memory. In addition to Voicing the Void, Horowitz has published Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook (1994), along with countless articles.
Location: Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
Date: 4/15/13, 7:30 pm
Video of lecture here.