Special Event – The Tree of Life: Remembrance and Resilience
Wednesday, May 21. Held at 2:00 pm and again at 7:00 pm
Held at Maltz Museum
$10 General Admission, $5 Members
Join us for The Tree of Life: Remembrance and Resilience, a moving discussion with Scott Miller, academic advisor and curator of Lessons from the Tree of Life – Lighting the Path Forward for Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life memorial project. He will discuss how this exhibit works to diminish hate and antisemitism, while reimagining how the rebuilt Tree of Life can symbolize Jewish resilience and the power of shared humanity.
On October 27, 2018, eleven Jewish parishioners from three congregations who were at prayer in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh were murdered. This was the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. The shooting is a powerful reminder of what hate can do when fueled by antisemitism and xenophobia. Yet, the story also demonstrates the potency of hope, as individuals and communities—beginning in Pittsburgh and extending the world over—united to condemn the shooting and support the families of Tree of Life.
Scott Miller serves on the academic advisory committee for the Tree of Life memorial project in Pittsburgh and curated Lessons from the Tree of Life: Lighting the Path Forward.
Scott was a founding staff member at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he worked for thirty years, serving as Director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors, as well as Director of Curatorial Affairs. He has curated exhibitions on the Holocaust and Jewish history at the Hilton Family Center for Holocaust Education in Phoenix, the Oregon Jewish Museum – Center for Holocaust Education, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the National Library of Israel.
