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Magnes Pop Up Exhibition: Holocaust Memory, Walls, and Ephemerality

03/15/2017rdeblinger

Thank you to the Magnes Museum for inviting me to speak at one of their weekly Pop Up Exhibitions. It was an honor to think about the ephemerality of Holocaust memory and the need to balance memory with activism. The… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Memory, Uncategorized Public Presentation

I remember with disorientation and confusion

01/27/2016rdeblinger

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day – commemorated on January 27th in honor of the Russian Liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. Museums and organizations around the world honor this day of memory with speeches by dignitaries and survivors,… Continue Reading →

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70 Years After Hiroshima: Remembering the power of personal narrative

08/06/2015rdeblinger

On August 6, 1946, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 80,000 people died immediately and thousands more in the aftermath. On that day, the world learned the devastating power of nuclear weaponry. As we mark… Continue Reading →

Memory Hiroshima, WWII

Yom Hashoah & the Need for Remembrance

04/16/2015rdeblinger

Seventy years after the Allies liberated the camps, we still read about the Holocaust and the other Nazi crimes in part because we are afraid…: We fear that we will start to think of monstrous actions as just the way… Continue Reading →

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The fear and freedom of asking anything

03/24/2015rdeblinger

Last week, Holocaust survivor Ben Lesser, Founder of the Zachor Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). The fact of a Holocaust survivor opening him- or herself up to anything on the internet is a scary… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Memory, Social Media Memories/Motifs, Reddit, Technology, Testimony, Witnessing

On Immigration, Executive Action, & Holocaust Survivors in the postwar period: What would our forefather’s think?

11/21/2014rdeblinger

Yesterday, President Obama used executive action to open the promise of America to 5 million more people. In doing so, he said: “Whether our forebearers were strangers who crossed the Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we are… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Immigration, Memories/Motifs, Memory

Selfies, Memory Sites, & “appropriate” forms of commemoration

10/09/2014rdeblinger

The selfie of San Antonio Spurs’ Danny Green at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (in Berlin) is making the rounds online. The people of the internet are “outraged,” both, it seems, at the picture itself and at the… Continue Reading →

Holocaust Studies, Memories/Motifs, Memory, Social Media

Instagram, Memory Making, and Leaving LA

08/29/2014rdeblinger

The last few months have been all about change. In May, I submitted my dissertation. In June, I received my PhD from UCLA. In July, Adam and I moved from LA to Santa Cruz, CA. Next week, I start a… Continue Reading →

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  • Anti-Semitism and the Internet: A Conversation in Silicon Valley
  • Digital Stumbling Blocks: Instagram and Holocaust Memory
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