Abstract
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis, with co-sponsorship by the Israel Institute and by the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis, presented an international conference April 27-28 that explored the impact of the Holocaust on Israel and its art, literature, music, foreign policy, politics, Zionism, memory, and identity.
The meeting, entitled “The Shoah in Israeli Culture, Memory and Politics,” opened with a videotaped message from Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. Dan Michman, of Bar-Ilan University and Yad Vashem, presented the first of two keynote talks, “Is the Holocaust Different from other Genocides?” Yehudah Mirsky, associate professor in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis, presented the other, “Facing the Hidden God of History: Religious Zionism and the Holocaust.”