Dr. Avinoam Patt, the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, will speak about “Humor in Responding to the Trauma of the Holocaust”.

Dr. Vicki Caron, Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History in the History Department and Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University, will explore the topic of her new book, The Battle for the Republic: Jews and Catholics in fin-de-siècle France, 1870-1914, to be published by Harvard University Press in 2018.