Offerings of Grief, Offerings of Rage: Revisiting Tree of Life Synagogue and George Floyd Square

September 14th, 5pm-6:30pm 

Katz Auditorium, JCC of Squirrel Hill

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 During this talk Dr. Laura Levitt will present on her project “Offerings of Grief, Offerings of Rage: Revisiting Tree of Life Synagogue and George Floyd Square.” This project centers on gifts visitors brought to the site of the Pittsburgh synagogue and the George Floyd Global Memorial in Minneapolis. Dr. Levitt is the inaugural recipient of the Fine Fellowship, created by the University of Pittsburgh Jewish Studies Program in collaboration with the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center, during which she has studied materials related to the Oct. 27, 2018 synagogue shooting. The bulk of these materials — including ephemera, correspondence, oral histories and institutional records — are held in the Rauh Jewish Archives’ October 27 collections. Additional materials are held at the University of Pittsburgh. 

This program is organized by the University of Pittsburgh Jewish Studies Program, the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center, and the 10.27 Healing Partnership.

Laura Levitt is Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University and the author The Objects that Remain (2020), American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007), and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (1997). 

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