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SUMMARY:REMNANTS
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 Synopsis: REMNANTS is a minimalist piece that 
 includes the voices of 3 men and 4 women, currently 
 presented as a one-man performance by 
 the author.  The play reflects what is now almost 
 forty years of conversation between the 
 playwright and a small group of Holocaust survivors. 
  REMNANTS is not testimony but rather 
 recreates conversational moments in which survivors 
 struck on an image or anecdote that "nailed" 
 what they were attempting to convey, 
 not only about the destruction but also about 
 living after. The action is in the retelling 
 itself:  survivors' finding such images, their 
 strategic deployment, and the particular relationship 
 that each survivor works to establish 
 with the audience.  The recreation and selection 
 of these moments depended on the author's 
 decades of writing and teaching about the 
 Holocaust as scholar as well as playwright.\n
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 Author 
 Bio\n
 Henry Greenspan is a psychologist 
 and playwright at the University of Michigan 
 who has been interviewing, teaching, 
 and writing about Holocaust survivors since the 
 1970s.  Rather than one-time "testimonies," 
 Greenspan's approach has been to meet with 
 survivors in sustained conversation: over months, 
 years, and, in a few cases, decades.  That 
 approach is reflected in his On Listening 
 to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony, now 
 in its second and expanded edition, and Reflections: 
 Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated, 
 co-authored with Agi Rubin, a survivor with 
 whom Greenspan had collaborated since 1980. 
  He is the author of numerous articles on 
 survivors' retelling, including the chapter on 
 survivors' accounts for the Oxford Handbook 
 of Holocaust Studies.  In 2011, he co-led the 
 annual Hess Seminar for Professors of Holocaust 
 Courses at the United States Holocaust Memorial 
 Museum in Washington.  In 2012, he was 
 the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the 
 Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling 
 at Concordia University in Montreal.  He 
 is a member of the Dramatists Guild.\n
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 Response 
 to REMNANTS\n
 "I read a lot of plays.  I 
 don't know another one like REMNANTS.  It is 
 exactly what it should be.  It is exactly right."\n
 	Ellen 
 Schiff, editor, Classic Plays from 
 the American Jewish Repertoire\n
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 "There 
 are no elaborate sets, no orchestral movements 
 to stir the soul.  But to those who watch it, 
 REMNANTS is as memorable and moving as other 
 major Holocaust works....The work is renowned."\n
 	The 
 Detroit Jewish News\n
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 "An incredibly 
 moving work, stark and haunting-an example 
 of Public Radio at its best."\n
 	Michigan Public 
 Broadcasting \n
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 "Each monologue encompasses 
 the Holocaust's unspeakable, inexplicable 
 horror within what amounts, in most instances, 
 to a simple anecdote....Anything more would 
 be redundant."\n
 	The Philadelphia Inquirer\n
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 "This 
 is Holocaust theatre at its best-a 
 work that carries authenticity in every one 
 of its taut, spare words.\n
 	Alvin Rosenfeld, 
 Chair, Academic Committee, United States Holocaust 
 Memorial Museum\n
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 "Of the countless attempts 
 to represent the Holocaust, REMNANTS stands 
 out as a uniquely succinct and piercing 
 glimpse into the immeasurable horror of genocide. 
  This play has more to tell us than many 
 learned volumes."\n
 	Omer Bartov, Birkelund 
 Distinguished Professor of History, Brown University\n
 \n
 "An 
 understated, concentrated, starkly 
 dramatic play. REMNANTS avoids the dogmatic 
 and the sentimental and leaves interpretation 
 up to the cast and response up to the audience."\n
 	Lawrence 
 Langer, Professor Emeritus, 
 Simmons College\n
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 "REMNANTS succeeds in ways 
 I had thought out of the reach of any kind 
 of dramatization, and it does so with great 
 integrity as well as passion."\n
         Michael 
 Andre Bernstein, Professor of Comparative 
 Literature, U. of California, Berkeley\n
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 "REMNANTS 
 combines history and scholarship, art 
 and drama, to inform our understanding of the 
 Holocaust in ways that are as moving and poignant 
 as they are challenging and surprising. 
 Penetrating, gripping, masterful--those are 
 only a few of the words that this distinctive 
 work deserves."\n
 	John K. Roth, Emeritus Professor 
 of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://events.msu.edu/jewishstudies/\n
 Contact name: Jewish Studies\n
 Contact phone: (517) 432-3493\n
 Contact email: jewishst@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Kellogg Center, Big 10 Room C
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