Event

Yom Limmud Santa Fe 2018

The Yom Limmud Santa Fe 2018 program is:

Avinoam Patt. Heroes and Martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto: Memory and Identity

Avinoam J. Patt Ph.D. is the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, where he is also director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization. Previously, he worked U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has written extensively on Jews in post-Holocaust Europe. His recent anthology on American Jewish fiction was Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz. Encoded Messages in the Jewish Music of Morocco

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Ph.D. is the director of KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive. She is a Broome and Allen Fellow of the American Sephardi Federation and a member of the Center for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies of the Sorbonne. Her publications have been with Cambridge University Press, Routledge, CSIC among others. In 2018 she was honored for her contribution to Moroccan cultural life by the Foundation of the Hassan II Mosque and by the Association Marocains Pluriels.

Joseph Skibell, Family Matters: Joseph Skibell Reads from his Fiction and Nonfiction

Joseph Skibell Ph.D. is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction. His awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sami Rohr Award in Jewish Literature, and the Turner Prize. His work has been described as daring in its honesty (New York Times); witty and profound (Jerusalem Report); and laugh-outloud humorous (Forward). He is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Emory University.