Date

Wed / Jan 22

Location

87th Street and Online

Time

6:30 pm

Speakers

Menachem Z. Rosensaft and Rabbi Cosgrove

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Menachem Rosensaft’s Burning Psalms 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.