Pre-Passover lecture series
Over three diverse sessions, we will explore Passover traditions and teachings through the arts.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 7:00 PM
Isa Milman is an award-winning author and the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Poland. She came with her family as refugees to the United States in 1950, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Her life in Canada is neatly divided between twenty-one years in Montreal, and the last twenty-five years in Victoria, BC.
Isa is the author of three full collections of poetry—Something Small to Carry Home (2012), Prairie Kaddish (2008) and Between the Doorposts (2004)—and a three-time winner of the Helen & Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award, whose 2012 jury called her “a foremost Canadian writer of Jewish themes.” Her latest book, Afterlight: In Search of Poetry, History and Home is a memoir, published by Heritage House in 2021.
Dr. Norman Ravvin’s recent novel of Poland and Vancouver is The Girl Who Stole Everything. The Globe and Mail listed it among the “best of the independent presses” in Canada. His essays on American and Canadian writers are collected in A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory. His other books include the story collection, Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish and the co-edited Failure’s Opposite: Listening to A.M. Klein. He is at work on a memoir of early 1930s Saskatchewan and Canadian Jewish immigration. He teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.
Date: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 | 7:00 PM
Loren Lerner is Professor Emerita of the Department of Art History at Concordia University. In conjunction with her research on Jewish artists, Dr. Lerner was editor of Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature (2002), and curator of the exhibitions Memories and Testimonies (2002) and Sam Borenstein (2005). Dr. Lerner is interested in the intersections of art and religion.
Date: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 | 7:00 PM
Dr. Kris Lindbeck, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Florida Atlantic University. She earned her masters in Talmud and Rabbinics from Jewish Theological Seminary in 1989, followed in 1999 by a doctorate in Ancient Judaism.
In 1999-2000 she returned to Jerusalem as a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University, and then taught as a visiting professor at Trinity in San Antonio and Tulane University in New Orleans before coming to FAU. Her book Elijah and the Rabbis: Story and Theology, analyzes Elijah Legends from the Rabbinic period to the 20th Century.
