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The Memory Monster
Join us for an online conversation with author and attorney Yishai Sarid
Monday, November 8 | 12:00 pm
Join the Jewish Community Relations Council of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Simon Family JCC, Embassy of Israel & Community Partners' Israel Today series, as part of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater & Simon Family JCC’s Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival for an online conversation with author and attorney Yishai Sarid as he discusses his new book The Memory Monster.
The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we honor the memory of horror without being consumed by it? How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict?
Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland and guides tours through the sites for students and visiting dignitaries.
The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession.
“A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present. . . . Other writers have described well the reverberations of trauma (like David Grossman in See Under: Love) but few have taken this further step, to wonder out loud about the ways the Holocaust may have warped the collective conscience of a nation, making every moment existential, a constant panic not to become victims again.”―Gal Beckerman, The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
In partnership with the Simon Family JCC's Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival.
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