Beth Kissileff is the editor of the anthology "Reading Genesis" and the author of the forthcoming novel "Questioning Return."
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A 'Small, Still Voice' at the 9/11 Museum
Image via RNS/National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum
A generation ago, a curator at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem noticed a man saying Kaddish, the prayer of mourning, in front of a seder plate.
When she learned the plate belonged to the man’s sister, who was murdered in the Holocaust, the curator gave him a life membership to the museum because the ritual object, which had been a wedding gift, was the closest the mourner could get to his sister’s remains.
That man, Herbert Kahn, was the father of Tobi Kahn, one of the 13 artists whose work will be on display at the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum for the next 16 months in an exhibit called “Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11.”