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Martin Herskovitz, who has worked with Ono Academic College’s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry on the creation of a curriculum to teach middle and high schoolers about Bete Israel, has just released a new book of poetry about the Shoah. The book is entitled, “Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor.”
Herskovitz, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, manifests a language of remembrance that describes not the desolation and destruction, but rather the possibility of grieving, of finding compassion and healing. It is a language that evokes the trauma of the Shoah but also allows its processing. As a second generation survivor testimony, this work represents a new narrative which both reinvigorates and brings a new relevance to Holocaust remembrance.
Herskovitz is applying the same approach to another book project, in conjunction with Ono, entitled, “Voices Following the Journey: Stories of Beta Israel, Creating Memory and Healing.” This book, which focuses on the stories told about the trauma suffered by those who travelled from Ethiopia to Israel, as well as by the second and third generation, is scheduled to be published over the summer.
