Highlight on a Fulbright This issue’s highlighted Fulbrighter is Judith Monachina, Director of the Housatonic Heritage Oral History Center at Berkshire Community College Judith’s passion and dedication first brought her to Italy in 2000, where she traveled regularly to conduct interviews while working full-time in the US. Judith applied for […]
NEWS
Har Shalom, Potomac, MD, hosts a talk
The incredibly welcoming community of Congregation Har Shalom in Potomac, Maryland, made me remember why I wanted to finish Days of Memory. I am reluctant to give a history lesson in these situations, but the Italian story is relatively unknown to Americans, even those who read about and know […]
Article about Days of Memory, by Jeff Robbins, syndicated columnist/Boston Herald
Robbins: A journalist’s quest to document evil & courage The eruption and metastasis of anti-Semitism emanating from both far Left and far Right has prompted some to point to the poor and worsening state of Americans’ knowledge about the 20th century’s genocide against the Jews. The ignorance, particularly woeful among […]
Publication date
Days of Memory is officially published. Here, it is featured in the Berkshire Community College temporary library. Soon, the library will move back to its beautiful building. For now, librarians are doing an amazing job with a temporary space. And Barbara Krasner edits two blogs, The Whole Magillah and Writing […]
Days of Memory publication date and book launch
I cannot imagine a better place to introduce a book, to celebrate friends and family—and your favorite bookstore— than The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts. And that is what we did, on Sunday, June 2. Thank you Matt Tannenbaum! The official publication date is June 30, 2024, but in the meantime, […]
Lucy MacGillis
I wrote the essay in Lucy MacGillis’s catalogue Paintings From Italy, 2003-2022, produced by the Hoadley Gallery, where Lucy shows her work each summer. Lucy at Dottie’s in Pittsfield. Lucy MacGillis The artist’s house is situated on a long hill near an impossibly steep country road in Umbria. Through her […]
Inauguration of Milan Shoah Memorial
Milan Central Station Shoah Memorial hosts tours to inaugurate new space On June 15, 2022, visitors were given tours of the Shoah Memorial at the Central Station in Milan. I had been following its story, from a couple of angles, for years. In 2007, I worked at the Center for […]
Main Street Moxie interview
Judith Monachina I was lucky to be interviewed by new podcast hosts of Main Street Moxie. Judith Monachina
Recalling, and healing from, the memories of war
Berkshire Eagle Recalling, and healing from, the memories of war By Judith Monachina, Eagle Correspondent Photo: Son-in-law Jeff Gerth and daughter Kim Resnik pose with Dave and Liz Resnik on the rooftop terrace of a friend’s home in Rome, during the family’s trip in 2000. The family visited the sites […]
UBU Theater uses oral history for theater, in Women of Tyringham
The Berkshire Eagle July 24, 2021 ‘DIRECTOR Q&A’ UBU Theater director Ann Gallo on giving voice to Tyringham’s women with new oral history theater project By Judith Monachina Tyringham community members gather for a rehearsal of “Women of Tyringham,” a community-based oral history theater project produced by UBU Theater in […]