October 7 and the Dilemmas of Commemoration

3rd Annual Howard Jay Reiter Memorial Lecture
Featuring Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi of Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Beginning with the focal point of October 7, 2023, this lecture will address the challenges associated with the memory of difficult past events, especially when the aftermath is ongoing. Examining efforts to commemorate and construct a collective memory of that day, the talk will go on to look more broadly at what it takes to be remembered.
Attendees are invited to a reception following the lecture, allowing time to browse the exhibit on display in the Arthur Ross Gallery housed in UPenn's Fisher Fine Arts Library. The exhibit, After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection, is drawn from the collection of Jewish American Penn alumni with roots in Hungary, Chicago, and New York City, who have been collecting European and American art since 1947.
Free and open to the public.
Registration is required. Non–PennCard-holders will be asked to show ID to register at the door, space permitting.
About the Howard Jay Reiter Memorial Lecture
Established by family and friends in memory of Katz Center board member Howard Jay Reiter z”l, this lecture series shares the riches of Israeli scholarship with the University of Pennsylvania community. Howard Jay Reiter z”l was the husband of Jody Ellant W’82, L’87 and the father of Gavriela C’17, SP2’18, Aiden W’20, C’20, Ariana and Gideon.

Host or Publisher Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania