Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Prof. Manuela Consonni, director of Hebrew University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.
Consonni, a leading scholar of Holocaust memory, gender, and postwar European culture, decided to mark Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, with an exhibition at the Mount Scopus campus called “Faces of Women’s Resistance.”
The exhibition looks at how women — Jewish and non-Jewish — resisted the Nazi regime. Like men, many were fighters, partisans and rescuers, but in addition many mothers had the sheer survival of their family upon their shoulders.
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We discuss definitions of resistance and what means were available to women during the Nazi regime.
And finally, we delve into the use of Holocaust language when discussing the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
So this week, we ask Prof. Manuela Consonni, what matters now?
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