Monday 28 October, 16:00

Join us for a one-hour workshop focusing on the History of Holocaust Literature, with some examples, and discussion of Dan Jacobson’s novel, Heshel’s Kingdom. Jacobson was a South African writer who wrote about his grandfather’s origins in Lithuania and his own visit to that country to visit sites of mass extermination.

Stuart Taberner is from the University of Leeds is the Principal Investigator on ‘Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts, Canons, Circulations’ project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and bringing together over forty scholars from around the world to examine eighty plus years of Holocaust literature across languages and cultures. (See https://sites.wustl.edu/rethinkingholocaustliterature/ ). Stuart’s own research focuses on German and German Jewish literature, thought and culture, and on Holocaust memory. His latest book on contemporary German Jewish fiction is forthcoming in 2025.

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