An inter-generational conversation on remembrance and memorialisation of the Jewish Holocaust

How do Jews of different generations commemorate the Holocaust today? How effective are national memorialisation initiatives in the UK and Europe? In the decades that followed World War Two, what was the response of the East End’s Jewish community to the genocide? Can Holocaust remembrance ever be non-political? Join Barnaby Raine, David Rosenberg and Nadia Valman as they discuss these questions and more, from a personal, national and local perspective. Biographies: Barnaby Raine is an intellectual historian writing his PhD at Columbia University. His doctoral research seeks to explain the decline of thinking about the end of capitalism from Marx through to debates in twentieth century Britain, amid the end of formal empire. Raine is also Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, an organiser with the Black-Jewish Alliance, an editor of Salvage journal, and a contributor to The Guardian, n+1, Jacobin, Red Pepper and others. David Rosenberg is an educator, writer and tour guide specialising in London’s radical history. He is an anti-fascist activist and educator. He was the convenor of Cable Street 80 and is the author of Battle for the East End. He has helped to organise educational trips to Auschwitz and Krakow for trade unionists and anti-racist campaigners. He teaches a course at the City Literary institute called ‘Ghetto Uprising 1943, Jewish Life and death in Warsaw’. Nadia Valman is Professor of Urban Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She has authored or co-edited eight books on British Jewish history and culture and has recently worked with Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives on a project on the Jewish East End. At Queen Mary, where she has been a member of staff for 16 years, her teaching has a focus on literatures of migration to London, including Irish, Jewish, Caribbean and Bangladeshi migrations. https://www.ideastore.co.uk/local-history/whats-on