NOTE TO EDITORS: A photograph of James Young can be obtained by calling the UO Office of Communications at (541) 346-3134.

EUGENE–Can the German people truly mourn the victims of the Holocaust through the construction of a Holocaust memorial? Further, can they reunite their nation on the bedrock memory of its crimes?

Holocaust scholar James E. Young will explore these questions at a free public lecture, "Germany’s Holocaust Memorial Problem, and Mine," at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 2, in Room 100 of Willamette Hall, 1371 E. 13th Ave. on the University of Oregon campus. A reception will follow.

Young, the author of four books on Holocaust memorials, has served as adviser to a citizen’s initiative committee working to build a Holocaust memorial in Germany. He is a professor English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Young will deliver the first Singer Lecture in Judaic Studies organized by the UO Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies. His talk inaugurates an annual series funded by the Singer Family Visiting Scholars Fund in Judaic Studies through an endowment established in 1998 by Kenneth and Georgianne Singer of Eugene.

The Singer Family Visiting Scholars Fund was established to support the activities of distinguished academics from other universities who are invited to the UO by the Schnitzer Judaic Studies program.

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