Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture: "Writing from a Place of Survival" Rabbi Joseph Pollack
- Starts:
- 6:30 pm on Wednesday, September 18, 2019
- Ends:
- 9:00 pm on Wednesday, September 18, 2019
- Contact Name:
- Katherine Gianni
Rabbi Joseph Polak is the author of a harrowing account of his family’s deportation from the Netherlands to the Nazi concentration camp at Westerbork and speaks to the difficulties of living with traumatic early childhood memories. Rabbi Polak will also speak of what he learned over many years of friendship with Professor Wiesel.
About the Speaker: Rabbi Joseph Polak is the author of After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring (2015). He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health and rabbi emeritus of the Hillel House at Boston University. R. Polak also serves as Chief Justice of the Rabbinical Court of Massachusetts.
This event is part of the 2019 Boston University Alumni Weekend.