Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz with Menachem Rosensaft and Amy E. Schwartz

By | Apr 14, 2026

Can poetry offer a response to the pain of the Holocaust? How can traditional responses to suffering such as the Book of Psalms be brought into dialogue with more recent experience? Menachem Rosensaft, founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust  Survivors and author of the collection Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz, discusses the relationship between poetry and suffering. In conversation with Moment Opinion and Books Editor Amy E. Schwartz.

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