Young
By Kurt Mueller
November 2, 2001
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Author James Young will deliver the annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture as part of the University's Assembly Series. Young's talk, "A Holocaust Memorial for Berlin?" will take place at 11 a.m. Nov. 7 in Graham Chapel.
Young chairs the Department of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies and is a professor of English and Judaic studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of "Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust" and "The Texture of Memory," which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994.
His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous literary reviews, chronicles, magazines, journals and newspapers. Young is working on two new books, "After-Image: The Uncanny Arts of Holocaust Memory" and "A Vicarious Past: My Received History of the Holocaust."
He is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Young has received Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grants and National Endowment for the Humanities exhibition planning, implementation and research grants.
Young served as guest curator and catalog editor of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City with venues in Berlin and Munich.
Young earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's from the University of California, Berkeley.
Assembly Series lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-5285 or visit the Assembly Series Web site, wupa.wustl.edu/assembly.
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