Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss is a psychoanalytically trained therapist and works on the role of high culture in Jewish assimilation and the pairing of high culture and barbarism in the Holocaust. She is founding director of the Terezin Publishing Project and editor of the English-Language edition of H. G. Adler's "Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community" (Cambridge University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Terezin Publishing Project, 2014). Under the auspices of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College (with a grant from the Bertha Effron Fund), she curated the inaugural concert/lecture series, "Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism."