“From Curacao to Jerusalem: The Americas and the Global Jewish Diaspora” – A Talk with Dr. Wassner

Please join the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and the Department of
Political Science on **October 22, 2023,** for a virtual screening of the
film, ‘(https://forgottenjewelsfilm.com)’. (Film link and password will be
sent)

**The film will be available from **Sunday, October 22 – Wednesday, October
25**.

Following the film screening will be a live discussion with **Dr. Dalia
Wassner** on **Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 5:30 PM at Concordia University,
Hall Building, Room H-1226.** (Zoom option available)
https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMocOurpzksG9KBz1AutR2BtzpT1C-N8Tnq

**”From Curacao to Jerusalem: The Americas and the Global Jewish Diaspora”**

**About the talk:**
This talk will focus on Dr. Wassner’s current research on the Panamanian
Jewish community, centered on the memoir written by Jacob Brandon Maduro in
1954 Havana which depicts his family trajectory from Portugal to Amsterdam,
then Curacao, Panama, NYC and Cuba. Focusing on the Brandon Maduro family’s
trajectory and identifying a unique Port Jewry legacy of the Americas, the
talk will also address the memoir as offering a first-hand account of the most
impactful occurrences of the first half of the 20th century, including
reflections on WWII and the birth of the State of Israel, as they related to a
hemispheric responsibility to safeguard Jewish identity. Dr. Wassner will put
this in context of how Jewish communities in Latin America are among the most
Zionistic in the world, while also speaking to the changing waves of Jewish
imigration in the Americas (Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Mizrahi), as they’ve taken
place from the 17th C to the Present.

**About the speaker:**
Dalia Wassner, PhD is the director of Jews of the Americas, an initiative of
Brandeis University at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. Dr. Wassner
is a historian whose research and teaching is dedicated to providing more
inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches to the Jewish Diaspora and
broadening the academic fields of Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, and
Diaspora Studies.

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