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Lecture:“The Shoah: Its Implications to This Day”

August 13, 2012
On August 22, 2012, ORT Centro hosted the lecture “The Shoah: Its Implications to This Day,” presented by Dr. Yosi Goldstein, professor of the courses “Current Trends in Education in Israel” and “Introduction to Contemporary Judaism,” as well as the course “Introduction to Israeli Society” at the Melton Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The speaker analyzed the Shoah (Jewish Holocaust) as a central theme in the collective memory of the West. The event was organized by the Department of Jewish Studies.
“Since the 1990s, the Shoah has become a central pillar of the collective memory of European and Western peoples, and not just of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. We will analyze its impact on today’s collective identities, as well as on cultural representation in museums, films, and literature,” explained the speaker.

Dr. Goldstein served as Director of Educational Projects for Latin America at the Melton Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the Academic Director of the Project for Specialists in Holocaust Education in Latin America organized by the Jewish Agency and the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. He is also the Academic Coordinator of Yad Vashem’s Educational Projects in Argentina and Mexico. He is a research fellow at the Liwerant Center for Research on Latin America and its Jewish Communities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of AMILAT (Israeli Association of Researchers of Latin American Judaism) and co-editor of the journal Judaica Latinoamericana, published by that association. He is an Academic Consultant and co-founder of the journal Nuestra Memoria of the Shoah Museum in Buenos Aires (Holocaust Memory Foundation).