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Tanya Gold and Mark Glanville
The Jewish Literary Foundation & the Jewish Quarterly Present: Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust

Wednesday 10.09.2025

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We’re pleased to share this special session from The Jewish Literary Foundation and The Jewish Quarterly. A warm thanks to these partner organizations for sharing this event with the Lockdown University Community.

In novels, film and popular culture, the Holocaust genre is booming. Streaming hits and bestsellers play a vital role in shaping understandings of the past.

But, as Tanya Gold shows in the latest groundbreaking essay for the Jewish Quarterly, the creators of these works all too often engage in a crass and self-serving exercise in exploitation. In this new wave of Shoah blockbuster, the destruction of the Jews becomes a plot device or a ready-made backdrop – and the truths of history and of the dead are violated. The results, in many cases, are shameful fictions that desecrate the past and misrepresent the Jewish people of today.

Shameless is a moral wake-up call: it shows that there are some artists who treat the Holocaust honestly, and they disgrace those who do not. Tanya is in conversation with writer and singer, Mark Glanville.

Kindly note that this event was not organised by Lockdown University, so all questions should be directed to the Jewish Literary Foundation.

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Tanya Gold

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Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist. She writes for the Spectator, the New Statesman, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, and others. She won feature writer of the year at the 2009 British Press Awards and arts and culture story of the year at the 2015 Foreign Press Association Awards.

Mark Glanville

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Mark Glanville read Classics and Philosophy at Oxford University before winning a scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music. Following his debut for Opera North he sang as principal bass for, among others, Scottish Opera, Lisbon Opera, Israeli Opera, Opera Zuid and Omaha Opera. On the concert platform he has performed as soloist with Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Daniele Gatti, Sir David Willcocks, Pascal Tortelier and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. His ‘Yiddish Winterreise’ programme has been performed at the Kennedy Center, Leeds Lieder Festival and the Purcell Room. Mark’s programme of Mieczslaw Weinberg songs, ‘Citizen of Nowhere’ has been performed at the Purcell Room, the Polin Museum Warsaw and Israeli Opera. Mark’s memoir, ‘The Goldberg Variations: From football hooligan to opera singer’, published by Harper Collins, was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish Literature. He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, The Jewish Chronicle and many other papers and journals, specialising in the history and culture of central and eastern European Jewry.
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