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Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume II: On Screen and in the Gallery continues the journey begun in Volume I, exploring how film, visual art, and museum curation preserve memory and inspire healing. Edited by Karen Berman, Ph.D., and Gail Humphries Ph.D., this powerful collection gathers international artists, filmmakers, scholars, and survivors who use creative expression to confront trauma, educate future generations, and stand against Hate. Essays and interviews examine how Holocaust stories endure through screen and canvas-transforming grief into empathy and remembrance into action. With reflections from museum directors, educators, and second-generation artists, Volume II demonstrates that art is not only memory, but renewal. Through its interdisciplinary lens-spanning psychology, history, and the arts-this volume offers a vital reminder that creative expression can heal, educate, and resist injustice. For readers of Holocaust studies, film, art, and social justice, Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume II: On Screen and in the Gallery, reveals how the power of art continues to speak truth, restore dignity, and echo the enduring call of Never Again. "". . . a profound journey through the poignant narratives and visual representations of the Holocaust, challenging us to envision a future shaped by compassion and justice, utilizing creativity and art as pathways to remembrance and healing.""-Thomas Schumacher, Chief Creative Officer, Disney Theatrical Group""In 2018, I was asked to direct a new production of Fiddler on the Roof...I was able to achieve a final sequence that caused palpable distress and horror in our audience...We were witness to inhumanity, to inexplicable prejudice, to what would become . . . the Holocaust.""-SIR TREVOR NUNN, British Theatre Director and former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre ""Drs. Karen Berman and Gail Humphries take us on a profound journey through the poignant narratives and visual representations of the Holocaust, challenging us to envision a future shaped by compassion and justice while utilizing creativity and art as pathways to remembrance and healing."" -THOMAS SCHUMACHER, Chief Creative Officer, Disney Theatrical Group

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""Professors Berman and Humphries have gifted you a book of great value and have assembled a group of scholars and artists who explore the Holocaust from the perspective of the arts -- theatre, dance, painting, film and music -- to bring us closer to the historical catastrophe. Artists imagine actions that teach how resistance, community, healing and hope can help us overcome. As the playwright Erik Ehn says: 'what was cast in ruin, must be restored through story.'"" Professor Emeritus Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin-Madison Editor of The Theatre of the Holocaust ""Stories of the Holocaust teach us of both humanity's darkest days and the persevering resilience of the Jewish people. From my time as U.S. Ambassador to Germany and as N.J. Governor, I have always been reminded of our mandate to keep these stories alive. As we continue to fight the scourge of antisemitism and hatred, art can play a critical role in both healing and educating. This book is an important collection of insightful works which remind us to never forget."" New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy ""With the rise of global antisemitism and studies that suggest general ignorance of the Holocaust, Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal reminds us of the power of the arts to confront both issues and is a significant and timely addition to Holocaust studies. These outstanding essays give me, as a child of Holocaust survivors and a scholar of Holocaust theatre, hope that the arts may actually help to heal and educate current and future generations."" Alvin Goldfarb, President and Professor Emeritus, Western Illinois University Lead Scholar, Holocaust Theatre Catalog ""This compelling and expansive work reminds us of the necessity of the arts to help us heal, reckon with, and remember the tragedy of the Shoah. In the face of today's growing antisemitism, we need this book urgently."" Rabbi Diana Fersko, author of We Need to Talk About Antisemitism ""Read this book, if only for artist Mindy Weisel's musings on the words of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: Beauty, looking for it, finding it, experiencing it, creating it, responding to it is the ultimate antidote to pain. We each need to survive as best we can while reaching for 'transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things."" Dr. Jack Rasmussen, C. Nicholas Keating and Carleen B. Keating Director, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC

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Co‐editor Karen Berman, PhD, is Dean Emerita, College of Fellows of the American Theatre; Past Chair and Artistic Director, Department of Theatre and Dance, Georgia College; and director of over 150 productions. She is Co‐Founder and Artistic Director of Washington Women in Theatre, and has directed at the Smithsonian and Off‐Broadway. Co‐editor Gail Humphries, PhD, is Dean Emerita, College of Fellows of the American Theatre; Likhachev/Yeltsin Cultural Fellow, St. Petersburg, Russia; Fulbright Senior Scholar, Prague, CZ; Dean Emerita, Stephens College; and Professor Emerita, American University. Dr. Humphries has directed over 180 productions.

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