Sun, Jul 12
03:00PM
Sun, Jul 12
03:00PM
ruth gay seminar in jewish studies
Uncommon Voices, Everyday Lives: Jewish Experiences in Salonika Through the YIVO Archives
Presenter: Devin Naar
Chair: Dr. Isaac Benmayor
Introductory Remarks: Dr. Steven Bowman
Devin Naar, Historian of the Salonika Project at YIVO, is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University and is writing his dissertation on the Jewish Community of Salonika during the 19th and 20th centuries.The Salonika Project under which the Archive of the Jewish Community of Salonika at YIVO was organized, microfilmed and digitized, was supported by the Maurice Amado Foundation and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Isaac Benmayor was born and raised in Thessaloniki and holds a Ph.d. in Modern Greek Linguistics from Oxford University. Benmayor is a past president of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece and has worked on a number of publications on the Holocaust in Greece.
Steven Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and a historian of Greek Jewry.
Chair: Dr. Isaac Benmayor
Introductory Remarks: Dr. Steven Bowman
Devin Naar, Historian of the Salonika Project at YIVO, is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University and is writing his dissertation on the Jewish Community of Salonika during the 19th and 20th centuries.The Salonika Project under which the Archive of the Jewish Community of Salonika at YIVO was organized, microfilmed and digitized, was supported by the Maurice Amado Foundation and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Isaac Benmayor was born and raised in Thessaloniki and holds a Ph.d. in Modern Greek Linguistics from Oxford University. Benmayor is a past president of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece and has worked on a number of publications on the Holocaust in Greece.
Steven Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and a historian of Greek Jewry.
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