The 19th Annual Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture

Name: The 19th Annual Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture
Start: 2025-03-27T19:00:00-04:00
Location: N 13th St and, Bern St, Reading, PA 19604

Schedule

Thu, 27 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

N 13th St and, Bern St, Reading, PA 19604 | Reading, PA

The community is invited to attend the 2025 Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 27, 7pm, at the Freedman Gallery at Albright College. Parking is available in the lot at the corner of 13th and Berns Streets. The lecture is free and open to the public, including interested teens, college students, and adults. A reception will follow.
This year’s speaker is Boaz Dvir, the founding director of Penn State’s Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative and the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative.
His lecture, titled 80 Years Later: Fulfilling Holocaust Education’s Great Promise, examines how and why traditional Holocaust education has failed, what we can do to uproot antisemitism and other forms of hate, and how we can strengthen democracy. He discusses a new, innovative way to deliver on Holocaust education’s great promise.
We are thrilled to welcome such a prestigious speaker to our community and thank the Yashek family and Vic and Dena Hammel for their support and commitment to this annual lecture. We hope you will join us at this year’s Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture.