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Dr. Kopstein reads an excerpt from his book. Intimate

Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust, co-

written with Dr. Jason Wittenberg of UC Berkeley 

COMMEMORATING IN VERSE: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY POETRY READING

Here in this carload I am Eve With my son Abel If you see my older boy Cain son of Adam Tell him that I

SPOTLIGHT

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book, My Journey Home: life After

the Holocaust, available in

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Faculty, students, staff and

community members gathered to

read poems such as “Written in

Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar”

(above) on Holocaust Remembrance

Day. Every year, the Ackerman

Center hosts a public gathering to

recite poetry in a multitude of

languages in the entrance hall of the

Edith O’Donnell Arts Technology

Building.

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Authors: Chrissy Stanford, Sarah Hashmi Editors: Chrissy Stanford, Sarah Hashmi, Cindy Seton- Rogers Design: Sarah Hashmi

In addition to the readings,

LabSynthE created “Syntonic

Refuge,” a knitted shawl meant for

two, ending in gloves capable of

reading the wearers’ heart rates.

While wearing it, the pair touch

hands and read each other’s pulses.

PhD student Amal Shafek and PhD

Candidate Laticia Ferreira de Souza

pressed their palms together

beneath the shawl while reading 

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Paul Celan’s poem, “Death Fugue” in

Arabic and Portuguese simultaneously (top

right). As they read, the sensors detected

the changes in their heart rates,

communicating their emotional reaction to

the words, the connection forged between

the two and the languages as they

overlapped with each other. “It really felt

like we were completing each other’s

sentences even though they were in

different languages,” says Amal.

The event included an excerpt from Donald

McCullough’s “Holocaust Cantata,” (cover

photo) conducted by Dr. Jonathan Palant,

featuring Dallas Chamber Singers and

University Choir, solos from sopranos

McKenzie Flynn, Anna Rasmussen and

baritone William Hughes, as well as pianist

Artem Arutyunyan and cellist Joseph

Kuipers. Additionally, Professor Frederick

Turner and Dr. Zsuzsunna Ozsváth (bottom

right) read testimonies from Holocaust

survivors who endured the horrors from the

camps.

 

                   

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"It really felt like we were completing each other's sentences even though they were in different languages."