How Will We Teach October 7?

Three years after October 7, many of us can still remember exactly where we were when we first understood what was happening. We remember who we called, what we saw, and how the day unfolded around us.And only three years later, we are already confronting questions about how October 7 ought to be remembered, commemorated, and taught. So what can earlier experiences teach us about that process?Spencer Cronin joins Jeremy Burton on Boston Jewish Now to look at what we can learn from the evolution of Holocaust and 9/11 commemoration and education as new generations encounter these events differently than those who experienced them firsthand — and as those with no firsthand memory or relationship to the events become responsible for teaching them.They discuss how communities develop rituals of remembrance and the challenge of figuring out how to teach traumatic history while its meaning is still being shaped and contested.And this is the challenge of October 7: the need to explain and teach what happened began almost immediately, even while the memories of that day remained firsthand for so many of us. Watch the full conversation as Jeremy and Spencer consider what it means to remember October 7 now, and what we owe the generations who will know it only as history.