Name: Second generation Holocaust legacies: reconciling rejected faith and personal perspectives
Start: 2025-06-08T14:45:00+1000
End: 2025-06-08T15:45:00+1000

Welcome to the program for Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025!

Join us for an immersive weekend festival of Jewish ideas and culture, with >100 presenters and sessions to choose from.
From Ben-Gurion to bagels, Yentl to yoga, we always have something for everyone. Limmud is an opportunity for you to cultivate a personal Jewish experience and learn from presenters you might never come across otherwise.

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Sunday June 8, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm AEST

SG.12 - Rm 7

Thistledown Seed is a story about redemption, linking to family heritage and culture and finding one’s own identity when intergenerational trauma has led to a deafening silence about family following the devastating losses inflicted by the Holocaust. In this session I will explore what motivated me to write my memoir when so much has already been written about my family.

Speakers

Louise Helfgott

Louise Helfgott is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing. Thistledown Seed: was published 2022 by Brandl and Schlesinger and shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Awards, 2018, WA Premier’s Book Awards 2023. Potchnagoola: commissioned and staged by the Katharine Susannah... Read More →

Sunday June 8, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm AEST
SG.12 - Rm 7

History and memory

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Limmud Oz Melbourne 2025

Louise Helfgott

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