Ithaca College

Edward Linenthal of Indiana University will be speaking on the history of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on February 28, 2006, at 7:00 p.m. in Emerson Suites A.

This lecture examines the controversies surrounding the physical location and museum exhibition representation of the Holocaust in a national museum in the nation's capital. In what ways is the Holocaust an "American" memory? How did Washington, D.C. come to be the museum's home? Where in the city should the building be located and what should it look like? How should the story be told, and how should the exhibition engage the vexing issue of the "uniqueness" of the Holocaust? What, finally, in a world of continuing genocides, is the function of Holocaust memory?

Professor Linenthal is the author of Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum.

The lecture is sponsored by the Jewish studies program at Ithaca College, and is co-sponsored by the Departments of Politics and Art History, and by Hillel.

For further information, please contact Rebecca Lesses, interim coordinator of Jewish studies, 274-3556 or rlesses@ithaca.edu.