{"id":34612,"date":"2025-11-12T06:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&p=34612"},"modified":"2025-11-12T06:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:28:59","slug":"partner-of-onos-ethiopian-center-publishes-book-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/partner-of-onos-ethiopian-center-publishes-book-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Partner of Ono\u2019s Ethiopian Center Publishes Book of Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Partner of Ono\u2019s Ethiopian Center Publishes Book of Poetry<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Marty Herskovitz and his Creating Memory Foundation are longtime collaborators with Ono Academic College\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry. Together, they have built an ambitious educational partnership that bridges remembrance and pedagogy. Ono and Creating Memory jointly developed a comprehensive study curriculum about Ethiopian Jewry for middle and high school students in the English-speaking world\u2014a program that, over the past year, has been successfully adapted for the Israeli educational system. Their partnership also extends to a new publication, Voices Following the Journey: Stories of Beta Israel, Creating Memory and Healing<\/em>, a collection of essays, poems, and artwork by first- and second-generation Ethiopian Israelis exploring trauma, identity, and renewal. The book\u2019s launch, with Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Moshe Solomon, will mark another milestone in this shared vision of memory as a pathway to healing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Marty Herskovitz\u2019s latest work, Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor<\/em>, continues this journey from communal remembrance to personal reclamation. The book transforms inherited trauma into art. Written with unflinching honesty, Herskovitz explores what it means to grow up in the shadow of catastrophe\u2014where silence, guilt, and absence fill the domestic space once meant for love. His opening prose essay \u201cMy Journey to Remembrance\u201d situates poetry as a means of catharsis, offering a voice to the voiceless child who \u201ccould not find a true feeling of belonging.\u201d The verses that follow\u2014structured in cycles of \u201cStories of Forgetting and Re-Remembering,\u201d \u201cStories of Desolation and Solace,\u201d and \u201cStories of Hope and Healing\u201d\u2014move the reader from the unspoken weight of generational trauma toward the slow emergence of compassion and acceptance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The poems themselves are distinguished by their simplicity and restraint, yet they pulse with layered emotion. In \u201cEclipse,\u201d Herskovitz imagines Holocaust knowledge as \u201cencrypted on my soul,\u201d while \u201cPhotographs\u201d captures the ache of lost ancestry\u2014\u201cI don\u2019t have any pictures of my uncles who died in Auschwitz.\u201d Later poems like \u201cRenewal\u201d and \u201cFarewells\u201d shift the tone toward fragile endurance, using everyday imagery\u2014almond blossoms in snow, a bowl of soup after a parting\u2014to evoke the sacred ordinariness of survival. By employing biblical echoes, subtle humor, and Jewish ritual metaphors, Herskovitz situates personal grief within a collective vocabulary of faith and continuity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Ultimately, Son of the Shoah is more than a collection of poems\u2014it is a guidebook for transmuting trauma into empathy. Herskovitz shows how memory, when expressed through the arts, becomes an act of resistance against erasure. His \u201cnew language of Holocaust remembrance,\u201d as he calls it, replaces ideology with intimacy, and commemoration with compassion. In much the same way that his partnership with Ono\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry has helped Ethiopian Israelis transform their communal trauma into creative expression, this book mirrors that process on a personal level\u2014using poetry as a bridge from inherited pain to renewed identity. Through this work, he not only honors his parents and the Six Million but extends a hand to all who inherit histories of suffering\u2014offering art as the bridge from pain to healing.<\/p>\r\n

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Marty Herskovitz and his Creating Memory Foundation are longtime collaborators with Ono Academic College\u2019s International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry. Together, they have built an ambitious educational partnership that bridges remembrance and pedagogy. Marty Herskovitz\u2019s latest work, Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor, continues this journey from communal remembrance to personal reclamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34613,"menu_order":5,"template":"","class_list":["post-34612","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}