Date: Thursday, February 27th
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Emory's Carlos Museum, Ackerman Hall (571 South Kilgo Cir NE, Atlanta, GA 30322)
The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) at Emory University will feature Prof. Avinoam Patt as the speaker for this year’s Tenenbaum Family Lecture in Judaic Studies. The lecture, to take place on Thursday, February 27th at 7:00pm, will address the topic: “Israel and the Holocaust: Changing Landscapes of Memory.”
Tracing the State of Israel’s evolving and uneasy relationship to the memory of the Shoah, Patt will analyze shifting conceptions of Israeli self-understanding and identity, Israel’s relationship to the wider world, its neighbors, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Jewish past, before and after October 7.
Avinoam J. Patt is New York University’s Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies and Ira Leon Rennert Director at the Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He holds a B.A. in Religion (Judaic Studies Concentration) from Emory University and a Joint Ph.D. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Modern European History from New York University.
Prof. Patt has authored multiple books on Jewish responses to the Holocaust, including Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2009), The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (2021) and his newest book, Israel and the Holocaust, published in 2024.