"Burning Psalms" with Menachem Rosensaft and Jack Kliger

Out of the horror of the abyss, the narrow places of his family’s history, Menachem Rosensaft has written a Book of Psalms that laments, accuses, rages, weeps and yet, somehow, still addresses God. The son of two Auschwitz survivors, Rosensaft imagines the voice of his older brother, Benjamin, who perished in the gas chambers before Menachem was born. His 150 psalms are masterful recreations of the original texts, turning praise into dirges, festivals into mourning – until subtly suggesting a hint of comfort through the mere fact of their existence.

Rosensaft will be in conversation with Jack Kliger, President and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, about Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz.