TLRH and the Herzog Centre | Why Talk About The Holocaust?

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 6 – 7pm A public event organized by
Holocaust Awareness Ireland and the Herzog Centre at Trinity
College Dublin, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. "Why
Talk About The Holocaust?" is the second event in this series.
Daniel Mendelsohn author of the internationally bestselling
Holocaust family saga, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
will be in conversation with Oliver Sears, moderated by Zuleika
Rodgers. Daniel Mendelsohn is an award-winning memoirist, critic,
essayist and translator. A longtime contributor to the New Yorker
and New York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large, he has
also been a columnist on books, film, TV, and culture for BBC
Culture, New York, Harpers, and the New York Times Book Review. His
books include the memoirs An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
(2017), the internationally bestselling Holocaust family saga The
Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), a translation of the
Modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and three collections of
essays, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game
of Thrones (2019). His tenth book, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile,
Narrative, and Fate, published in September, 2020, was named a
Kirkus Best Book of the Year. Mr. Mendelsohn is the Director of the
Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable trust that supports
nonfiction writing, and teaches literature at Bard College. Oliver
Sears is a London-born, Dublin-based art dealer & gallery
owner. He is the son of a Holocaust survivor & founder of
Holocaust Awareness Ireland. Formerly a trustee of Holocaust
Education Trust Ireland, he is a frequent contributor to radio and
newspapers including RTÉ and The Irish Times. He tells his family
story ‘The Objects of Love’ through a collection of precious
objects, documents and photographs, powerful mementoes that
survived the war and describe individual lives under Nazi
occupation. This was presented for the 2019 annual Kristallnacht
lecture at Trinity College Dublin. Zuleika Rodgers is Associate
Professor in Jewish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. A graduate
of Trinity College Dublin, she is the Director of the Herzog Centre
for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures and is currently
Head of Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. She has been
involved in Holocaust awareness and education and is the Academic
Director of the Certificate in Holocaust Education. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/