JAHLIT SYMPOSIUM: Keynote

The Betsy Hotel and The Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Association present Public Programs for the 2022 Annual Symposium in Miami Beach.

7:45PM

Keynote by Dr. Sara R. Horowitz, author of Shadows in the City of Light: Paris in Postwar French Jewish Writing (SUNY Press, 2021), as well as numerous articles on Holocaust literature and gender. Sara Horowitz is a professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at York University, and a member of the academic advisory board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Professor Horowitz is the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (SUNY Press, 1997), which won a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award, as well as editor of many books and volumes. She was chief editor for the Azrieli Holocaust Memoirs Series, Series I and II (Azrieli Foundation-Centre for Jewish Studies 2007, 2009), which won an Independent Publisher Book Award, Freedom Fighter Category Gold Medal, and editor within the series of Bits and Pieces: A Memoir by Henia Reinhartz (2007), which won a Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award, and Spring’s End: A Memoir by John Freund (2007).

 All events are free and will take place in The Gallery, Hohauser Wing, The Betsy Hotel