Terry Kurgan
Literature
Writer and visual artist, Research Associate at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, and staff member of the School of Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg – South Africa
Terry Kurgan will work on Patrimony: My Father Myself—the title piece in a linked collection of essays circulating around her soldier/father’s 1948 Arab/Israeli war album. The essay will discuss two photographs, both shot at the edge of graves—one in Ein-al-Beida, Palestine, and the other in a forest outside Panevėžys in Lithuania—as entry point to the taboo subject of the entangled histories, injuries and trauma resulting from the catastrophic impact of both the Holocaust and the Nakba.