From Privilege to Responsibility: Holocaust Memory in a Post-October 7 Context

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Register to join Dr. William Kolbrener for a timely and thought provoking lecture on evolving role of Holocaust Memory. Dr. Kolbrener is an English Professor at Bar Ilan University in Israel, and Executive Director of Writing on the Wall, a platform dedicated to creative expression after October 7th. Holocaust memory has long served as a central moral framework in modern culture, shaping how evil is recognized and judged. Yet in recent decades, that memory has been absorbed into broader narratives of power and privilege, altering its function. October 7 brings this shift into view. The largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust did not produce the moral clarity that Holocaust remembrance once seemed to guarantee but was instead interpreted