Bearing Witness: Exploring Poetry of the Holocaust

This online course, taught by Dr. Holli Levitsky, examines the powerful poetry created during and after the Holocaust, exploring how poets used language to grapple with unimaginable suffering, bear witness to atrocities, and preserve memory. Diverse poetic forms and voices, and the historical context of the Holocaust and its enduring impact will be considered. Participants will be encouraged to share their reflections and interpretations in a respectful and thoughtful environment.

Sessions will take place Tuesdays, March 11, 18 and 25 at 4:00pm PDT on Zoom.

Dr. Holli Levitsky is founder and director of the Jewish Studies Program and Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where her research focuses on impossible metaphors of the Holocaust. She is co-editor of four volumes, The Literature of Exile and Displacement: American Identity in a Time of Crisis (2016); Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (2015); Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures: Reading and Teaching (2019); and the forthcoming Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time (2025).  Among other honors and awards, she has been an Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow at the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature in Poland, a Schusterman Fellow at the Summer Institute for Israel Studies, and the Florida International University Exile Studies Scholar-in-Residence. She is an affiliated professor at the University of Haifa in Israel.

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