Alan Kaufman, a noted poet, memoirist, novelist and painter, will visit the University of Delaware on Monday, May 8, to speak to students and visitors to a class on “Jewish Holocaust: 1933-1945.”

The class, which will meet at 11:15 a.m., May 8, in Room 205 Gore Hall, is taught by Polly Zavadivker, director of the Jewish Studies Program at UD.

In connection with Kaufman’s campus visit, a small exhibit entitled “Remembrance and Visions” is on display this month in the second floor atrium of the University’s Hugh M. Morris Library, near the Special Collections Gallery. Included are some of Kaufman’s artworks, sketch books, published works and family papers.

Kaufman’s Jewish heritage is central to his identity and creative work as a poet, novelist, memoirist and artist. Family papers in this exhibit include letters from his mother, Marie Jucht Kaufman, bearing witness to her experiences as a French Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.

The Alan Kaufman papers and the Maria Jucht Kaufman papers are available for research in Special Collections, University of Delaware Libraries Museums and Press.  An online version of the exhibit is available at http://exhibits.lib.udel.edu/exhibits/show/visions.

The exhibit is cosponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Global and Area Studies, University of Delaware Library's Special Collections and the Halina Wind Preston Holocaust Education Committee.

Both the May 8 talk and the exhibit are free and open to the public