Author: Pamela Weathers
Professor Karen B. Stern Presents “Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity”
2019 Undergraduate Student Award Recipients in Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life Announced
We are delighted to announce that Professor Avinoam Patt has accepted the position as Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. He will begin the directorship in August 2019.
Professor Patt comes to UConn from the University of Hartford, where he has been the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History and co-director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. He has also served as the Director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization at the University of Hartford. Previously, he worked as the Miles Lerman Applied Research Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Professor Patt is an accomplished scholar in the fields of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and has published extensively on Jewish responses to the Holocaust, Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Europe, and American Jewish Fiction. He is co-editor of a newly published volume, The Joint Distribution Committee at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism, and author of a forthcoming book on the early postwar memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw (to be published by Wayne State University Press).
We know you share our enthusiasm and that of the other members of the search committee, Sara Johnson, Jacqueline Loss, and Frederick Roden (with special thanks to Pamela Weathers, our administrator) in congratulating and welcoming Avinoam Patt.
Sebastian Wogenstein (Interim Director)
Stuart Miller (Academic Director)
April 2019 E-News Releaed
Esther Dischereit Presents “Jewish Lives and the Situation in Germany”
Professor Stuart Miller to Present Humanities Fellow Research Talk March 26, 2019
Academic Director of the Center for Judaic Studies Professor Stuart Miller will present Humanities Fellow research talk: "From Temple to Home to Community: The Survival and Transformation of Ancient Jewish Life in the Wake of Catastrophe."
The talk will be held on Tuesday, March 26, at 4:00 pm with a light reception at 5:00 in the Humanities Institute Seminar Room (Babbidge Library, 4th Floor)
March 2019 E-News Released
Joint Statement from the Directors of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and the Human Rights Institute
Daniel Hershenzon Wins Sharon Harris Book Award 2019
Congratulations to affiliated faculty member Daniel Hershenzon who won the Sharon Harris Book Award for 2019 for The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018):
The Harris Book Award Committee noted, “Prof. Hershenzon’s book is an illuminating study of the redemption of captives in the early modern Mediterranean. The Captive Sea traces the seizure of Christians and Muslims by pirates, their enslavement in hostile lands, and their occasional return through complicated systems of ransom. Deeply researched in Spanish archives, the book examines the flourishing of a slave system that differs from the Atlantic slave trade, and it shows the ways in which the trade in captives encouraged intercultural communication between Southern Europe and North Africa.”