About this Event
Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecture: Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn will present the 2025 Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecture at 6 p.m. Monday, February 10. Following the lecture there will be a book signing and public reception. The event is free and open to the public.
His talk entitled “Can We Really Learn from the Past? The Holocaust, History, and the Problem of Memory.”
About the Speaker
Daniel Mendelsohn, a bestselling author and award- winning critic and essayist. In 2019 he became the Editor at Large of the New York Review of Books. His Ph.D. in Classics is from Princeton and currently teaches literature at Bard College.
Mendelsohn is the author of eleven books. , the 2006 account of Mendelsohn’s search for information about six relatives who died in the Holocaust, was a New York Times and international bestseller, and went on to win (among others) the National Books Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award. The story recounted in The Lost was featured in the 2022 Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust.
Mendelsohn has published two other books entwining memoir and literary criticism. His bestselling 2017 memoir, , recounts his travels around the Mediterranean with his late father, a scientist, while reading Homer’s Odyssey. Widely known as America’s most visible interpreter of the Greek and Roman classics for mainstream audiences, Mendelsohn is also a scholar of Modern Greek. In 2009, after twelve years of work and study, he published an acclaimed translation, with commentary, of the complete works of the Alexandrian Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Criticos Prize in the UK, it was the first English translation to include the lost “Unfinished Poems.” Mendelsohn’s translation of will be published by the University of Chicago Press in April 2025.
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Daniel Mendelsohn's Biography
All attendees are expected to adhere to the Carolinian Creed.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law; Karen J. Williams Courtroom, 1525 Senate Street, Columbia, United States
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