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Ushpizin with Chris Silver
September 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Join us for the first week of Ushpizin! Hillel McGill is excited to welcome
Professor Silver to hear about his work and have an engaging discussion.
Christopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History
and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He
earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of awards from the Posen
Foundation, the American Academy of Jewish Research, and the American
Institute for Maghrib Studies, Silver’s scholarship on Morocco, Algeria, and
Tunisia has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies,
Hespéris-Tamuda, AJS Perspectives, History Today, and the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia. He is also the founder and
curator of the website Gharamophone.com, a digital archive of North African
records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording
History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa is
forthcoming from Stanford University Press in June 2022.
There will be snacks and drinks available – please RSVP!
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