2022 Colonie Jewish Community Association Annual Lecture

On Wednesday, March 2, at 7 pm. Dr. Dina Danon will present on “Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir” via Zoom.  Dr. Danon is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. She holds a doctorate in History from Stanford University. She is the author of The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture. She was recently a fellow at the Katz Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she began work on a new project on the marketplace of matchmaking, marriage, and divorce in the eastern Sephardi diaspora.  She is currently at work, with Nancy Berg, on a co-edited volume entitled Longing and Belonging: Jews and Muslims in the Modern Age.

Via Zoom: https://albany.zoom.us/s/93386057765

Meeting ID: 933 8605 7765

Passcode: 520339

The lecture is sponsored through the generosity and support of UAlbany’s Judaic Studies Program and the Department of History, the University at Albany Foundation and College of Arts and Sciences, and the Colonie Jewish Community Association.