Susi’s school visit to Berlin Zoo, 1929. Photograph from the family album. © Sara Davidmann

In this event, Marianne Hirsch and Sara Davidmann will reflect on the very different ways the family photographs they inherited have shaped their work on family and cultural memory.

What do photographs from the European Jewish world before the Holocaust tell us about Jewish life and how the legacies of its destruction have shaped subsequent generations?

How do photographs carry memory? How do they prompt our own postmemories?

The discussion will be based on Hirsch’s autobiographical and theoretical writing and Davidmann’s artistic practice.

The conversation will be followed by a coffee break and an optional workshop on Memory and Photography facilitated by the two speakers. In person attendees are invited to bring one photograph and think about the stories it has enabled.

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