Shoah Memorial Lecture
Lecture by
Philippe Boukara
Mémorial de la Shoah
Musée centre de documentation juive contemporaine
(The Shoah Memorial and Museum and
Documentation Center for Contemporary Jewish Life)
Paris, France
Friday, May 1, 2009
3 pm, Benjamin Mays Center
The Office of Multicultural Affairs welcomes Phillipe Boukara, a historian specializing in Jewish studies and professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is the coordinator of adult education at the Memorial de la Shoah, the premier Holocaust documentation center in France, and the largest such center in Europe. He is a member of the steering committee of the Christian-Jewish Friendship Association of France. A native of Paris, Boukara is also Chairperson of the Eastern Paris Conservative Jewish Congregation (Dor Va Dor). He is the author of numerous contributions to academic symposia and journals. His books include: Précis d’histoire juive: Des origines à 1934, with Simon Drubnov and Isaac Pougatz and Une communauté au repúblique: histoire des juifs en france depois 1967.
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