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With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a poetic voice.

Memory is, without a doubt, the most powerful (and practical) tool of everyday life. By linking both your past and your future, memory gives you the power to plan, to reason, to perceive, and to understand. Yet while all of us have an amazing capacity for memory, there are plenty of times when it seems to fail us. Why does this happen? And how can you fix it? In Scientific Secrets for a Powerful Memory, you’ll explore the real research on how memory functions - and then apply these findings to help you make better use of the memory abilities you have.

Memory in Motion is the concept of how memory - and trauma - is passed from one generation to the next, and how we can learn from these memories from our ancestors in order to heal so that the next generation can move forward. It's the exploration of transgenerational trauma, oral memory, and social change that is inherent to a woman's identity and survival.Each episode is a conversation with women who are actively working in this field as traumatologists, psychologists, activists, artists, and more.Hosted by filmmaker and depth psychologist, Anna Engel, we welcome you to explore memory in ...