Topic: peter balakian

By Peter Balakian   Driving Route 20 to Syracuse past pastures of cows and falling silos   you feel the desert stillness near the refineries at the Syrian border.   Walking in fog on Mecox Bay, the long lines of squawking[...]

By Peter Balakian When the Illinois Holocaust Museum asked me in the late summer of 2012 if I would be the advising scholar and a primary writer of text for a major exhibit that the museum would develop for the commemoration of the[...]