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Lecture Series at FAU on Holocaust and Judaic Studies BOCA RATON, Fla. (February 1, 2016) – Florida Atlantic University will present a series of lectures on Holocaust and Judaic Studies throughout the month of February at its Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. All lectures are free and open to the public. On Thursday, Feb. 11 at 4 p.m., a lecture titled “The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction,” will be presented in the Social Science building, room 207, by Avinoam J. Patt, the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, where he is also director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization. Previously, he worked at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also director of the “In Our Words Interview Project” with the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and most recently, is co-editor of an anthology of contemporary American Jewish fiction titled “The New Diaspora: The Changing Face of American Jewish Fiction.” Magda Bader, a Holocaust survivor, will present “Keeping Holocaust Memory Alive to Inspire People to Confront Hatred,” on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. in the Performing Arts building, room 101. Bader was born in Munkacs, a small town in Czechoslovakia which later became Hungary. Magda’s father was a businessman and she was the youngest of 10 children. Life was good until at age 14 in April 1944, Magda was deported from her home to Auschwitz. Taken at that time were her parents, four sisters and a niece. Magda and three of her sisters survived Auschwitz, escaping from a concentration camp at Tannenberg in April 1945. The annual FAU Trialogue will take place on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m in the University Theatre. Rabbi A. James Rudin, emeritus director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, Peter Pettit of Muhlenberg College, and Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University will present a panel on “Beating Plowshares into Swords: Religion and Violence.” On Thursday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m., Jenna Weissman Joselit, the Charles E. Smith professor of Judaic Studies and professor of history at George Washington University, will present “Unscrolled: The Torah on Display” in the General Classrooms South building, Room 101. Joselit is the author, among other things, of “The Wonders of America,” which received the National Jewish Book Award in History, and “A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character and the Promise of America.” She also writes a monthly column for The Forward, which is now in its 16th consecutive year of publication. On Sunday, April 3 at 2:30 p.m., Kevin Spicer of Stonehill College, will present “From Yesterday to Today, The Church, Antisemitism, and the Jews” in the Engineering East building, room 106. Spicer is the James J. Kenneally Distinguished Professor of History at Stonehill College, Easton, Mass. Spicer’s research centers on the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the German state under National Socialism. He is the author of “Hitler’s Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism and “Resisting the Third Reich: The Catholic Clergy in Hitler’s Berlin.” No reservations are required for any of the lectures. For more information, call 561-297-2979.