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"The Novel and the Museum: H. G. Adler on Post-Holocaust Restitution and Recovery"

A Lecture by Samuel J. Spinner 

H. G. Adler was a German-speaking Jew, born and educated in Prague. After surviving the Holocaust, he settled in London where he wrote an influential book of Holocaust history along with novels and poems that challenge conventional approaches to the representation of the Holocaust. This talk will analyze Adler's contrarian views on the aesthetic, psychological, and memorial functions of art and museums in the shadow of the Holocaust.

Samuel Spinner is Assistant Professor and the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopskins University. 

The lecture will be followed by a reception. 

Registration required, details to follow.