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SubscribeJewish American Heritage Month: Remembering Elie Wiesel's Contributions to American Jewish Culture
By Joanne W. Rudof, Archivist Emeritus, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
It is forty years since the appointment of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel as a Henry Luce Scholar at Yale in the academic year 1982-83. Wiesel was personally acquainted with Yale earlier through Professor Geoffrey Hartman, due to Hartman’s focus on literature and Judaic Studies, and the Holocaust Survivor’s Film Project (HSFP), a New Haven grassroots endeavor with which Hartman became involved in 1979. Wiesel actively promoted the HSFP. He urged survivors to share their stories so they and their loved ones would not only be remembered in perpetuity, but [...]
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