Researchers Remember

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to gender, Jewish religious life, the Holocaust, memory, State of Israel, the United States, and commemoration. She is the daughter of Holocaust survivor Chaskel Tydor who spent five-and-a-half years in Buchenwald and Auschwitz, and of Shirley K. Tydor whose grandparents, Devorah and Nachman Enzenberg, starved to death in the Moghilev ghetto, Transnistria, in 1942.Shmuel Refael is the Director of the Salti Institute for Ladino Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His main subject of interest is Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) literature, language, ritual life, and culture. He is a board member of the National Authority for Ladino Culture and an Academic correspondence (Académico correspondiente) of the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid. Currently he is the scientific secretary of the Israeli National Academy for Judeo-Spanish (Ladino). He has published extensively about the Sephardim and the Holocaust and about the representation of the Holocaust in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) poetry. He is the son of Esther (Vivante) and Haim Refael z”l, Holocaust survivors from Corfu and Salonica.

• Introduction - David Clark: - A Legacy of Displacement and the Search for Home - Samuel Juni: Righting a Life Which Started on the Wrong Foot - Ela Karpowicz: Becoming - Abraham J. Peck: Towards the Holocaust: A Son of Survivors in Search of Himself - Abraham Z. Reznick: The Holocaust and I - Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz: Nature or Nurture and My Search for Roots - Judith Tydor Baumel- Schwartz: In the Beginning There Was Auschwitz - Dov Dori: My Mother the Hero - Yehudit Judy Dori: From Holocaust to Breaking the Glass Ceiling - Dov Eichenwald: I Have No Other Country - Zehavit Gross: “I Didn’t Choose to be a Second Generation” - Anita H. Grosz: Would the Real Anita Please Rise - Jacqueline Heller: Surviving Survivors - Naomi Levy: On Being Second Generation and My Major Life Choices - Hilda Nissimi: The Holocaust Is a Black Hole - Katalin Pécsi- Pollner: Rewriting My Identity – From “Feeling Jewish” to Discovery of My Heritage - Haim Taitelbaum: Pass the Parcel - Dorota Glowacka: Hide and Seek: A Conversation with My Father in Three Voices - Susan Jacobowitz: Singing History - Shmuel Refael: A Greek- Jewish Family in a German Bauhaus - Dov Schwartz: Academia as a Voyage of Survival - Anita Winter: My Parents’ Story Is Also My Story – But Different - Dan Carter: My Heritage - Emmanuel Friedheim: Between the Shoah and Masada – An Unfulfilled Historical Journey - Rahel Jarach- Sztern: Memory, Tradition, Family: A Second Generation as Mother and Researcher - Rina Krautwirth: (Re)affirming the Past: Growing Up as the Child of a Holocaust Survivor - Liat Steir- Livny: From Holocaust “Intrusions” to Holocaust Research - Daniela Ozacky Stern: Reflections of a Third- Generation Holocaust Scholar - Ariel Zellman: Coming Home - Contributors