Events: The International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025
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“A dwelling is built with your hands,
but a home is built with the heart.”(anonymous)
18:30 Reception and refreshments (at the library lobby)
19:00 Gathering in the auditorium
A performed monologue: “They say there is a land” – Elad Arnon
Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld – Critic of culture and literature, Researcher of Hebrew literature
Lecture: Memory of home, community, and the city – “Ir Umeloah
("A City and the Fullness Thereof") by Shai Agnon.
The book is a memorable monument to the city of Buczacz and at the same time - an anatomy of the act of cultural memory in its entirety. The book also marks new challenges of memory, which go far beyond
the paved paths of memory even in the field of the Jewish Holocaust.
Panel discussion: The home in the heart, the home in memory, and the home one misses.
Participants:
Alona Frankel – Author and illustrator. Recipient of the Ofir prize. Born in Krakow, Poland. Immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust at the age of 12.
Ali Abu Sabila – A Bedouin-Israeli educator from Abu Tlul in the Negev, the cousin of A’amar Abu Sabila who was murdered on the seventh
of October while saving the lives of two girls.
Avi Dabush – an evacuee from Kibbutz Nirim that was attacked. C.E.O
of “The Rabbis for Human Rights” organization.
Chair: Prof. Hanna Yablonka.
The program includes songs and music performed by Efrat Feldman & Amit Lasri.
20:30 Estimated wrap
