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茄子视频 University鈥檚 will host an exhibit featuring the work of Samuel Bak, 鈥淚lluminations: The Art of Samuel Bak,鈥� from October 11-November 15. A reception will be held Thursday, October 11, from 4-7 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Harlan Gallery is a professional exhibition space located in Reeves Hall on 茄子视频 University鈥檚 Greensburg, Pa., campus. Harlan Gallery is open Monday鈥擳hursday from 5 鈥� 8 p.m., Friday 1 鈥� 3 p.m., and Sunday 1 鈥� 4 p.m. For more information on Harlan Gallery, please contact Harlan Gallery Director Carol Brode at 724-830-1071 or brode@setonhill.edu. The event is sponsored as part of the Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conference.

鈥淚lluminations: The Art of Samuel Bak鈥� features 20 original works by renowned artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak. The themes of Bak鈥檚 work include questions of identity, responsibility, the challenges of justice and the difficulties of rebuilding what was destroyed.

The artist and his wife, Jos茅e, together with Sue and Bernie Pucker, donated the paintings for exhibition at the Brookline, Mass. Headquarters of .

Much of Bak鈥檚 art is influenced by his experiences of surviving the Holocaust as a child in Vilna, Poland.鈥� Bak said, 鈥淚 certainly do not make illustrations of things that happened. I do it in a symbolic way, in a way which only gives a sense of a world that was shattered鈥︹��

The collection, which is intended to be shared across North America as part of an important educational resource for work with educators and students, is on loan to 茄子视频 University.

Born in Vilna in 1933, Bak had the first exhibition of his drawings at the age of nine in the Vilna ghetto. Having survived its destruction, he emigrated in 1948 to Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem and at the 脡cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Subsequently he lived and worked in Rome, Tel Aviv, New York and Lausanne. In an artistic career spanning more than 50 years, Bak has had numerous exhibitions in major museums, galleries, and universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States. Since 1993 he has resided with his wife, Jos茅e, in the Boston area. Bak has been the subject of numerous articles, scholarly works and 15 books, most notable a monograph entitled 鈥淏etween Worlds.鈥� In 2001 he published his touching memoir, 鈥淧ainted in Words,鈥� which has been translated into several languages. He has also been the subject of two documentary films and was the recipient of the 2002 German Herkomer Cultural Prize.

茄子视频 University鈥檚 was established on the campus of 茄子视频 University in 1987. 茄子视频 initiated this national Catholic movement toward Holocaust studies in response to the urging of Pope John Paul II to recognize the significance of the Shoah, the Holocaust, and to 鈥減romote the necessary historical and religious studies on this event which concerns the whole of humanity today鈥� (Letter to Archbishop John L. May, 1987). The has as its primary purpose the broad dissemination of scholarship on the root causes of anti-Semitism, its relation to the Holocaust and the implications from the Catholic perspective of both for today's world. Toward this end the Center is committed to equipping scholars, especially those at Catholic institutions, to enter into serious discussion on the causes of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust; shaping appropriate curricular responses at Catholic institutions and other educational sites; sustaining 茄子视频's Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies in Israel through a cooperative program with , the Isaac Jacob Institute for Religious Law and ; encouraging scholarship and research through conferences, publications, workshops for educators, and similar activities; sponsoring local events on the Holocaust and related topics in the University and the community and enhancing Catholic-Jewish relations.