Commemoration of October 7 in Israel: Memory and Meaning One Year Later

A Conversation with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Chad Alan Goldberg (UW-Madison)

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Commemoration of October 7 in Israel: Memory and Meaning One Year Later
Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
in conversation with
Chad Alan Goldberg (UW-Madison)

Monday, October 14th
12:00pm CDT
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On October 7, 2023, an estimated three thousand armed Hamas terrorists invaded multiple towns and communities in southern Israel, massacred some 1,200 people, wounded or injured several times that number, and abducted some 250 people to hold as hostages in Gaza. The victims were almost entirely civilians and included the elderly, Holocaust survivors, women, babies, children, young families, and young people attending a music festival. They were brutally slaughtered, mutilated, raped, and burned. It was the third-deadliest terrorist attack in the world since 1970 in terms of the number of casualties, and the worst terrorist attack in the world since 1970 in terms of per capita deaths, with more than one in every 10,000 Israelis murdered. Anti-Defamation League director Jonathan Greenblatt has described it as “the worst violence committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”

How is this devastating trauma being commemorated within and outside of Israel a year later? And with dozens of hostages, including four Americans, still being held captive in Gaza, how can one commemorate an ongoing event? Please join us as we explore these and related questions with Professor Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, a distinguished sociologist and expert on collective memory and commemoration, former director of the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, and former dean of the faculty of social sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Geroge L. Mosse Program in History, and UW Hillel

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