Maya Balakirsky Katz, Reclaiming the Forgotten in the History of Antisemitism
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Dr. Marvin C. and Sharon A. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series
Maya Balakirsky Katz (Bar-Ilan University)
Reclaiming the Forgotten in the History of Antisemitism
Lecture 2: The Agudah’s Belated Holocaust Memory Project
The talk explores a unique visual and ideological attitude that organized Orthodoxy, under the auspices of the Agudath Yisroel movement, took to Holocaust memorialization in relationship to Soviet-American relations during the Cold War and its aftermath following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Maya Balakirsky Katz is a psychoanalyst and an Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of the books The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010), Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers, 2016), and Intersections between Jews and Media (Brill, 2020). Her most recent book Freud, Jung, and Jonah (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores the exposition of religion during the founding years of the first psychoanalytic periodicals.