Avinoam J PattAvinoam J. Patt is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut, USA. Previously, he worked as the Miles Lerman Applied ResearchScholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). He is the author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2009); co-editor (with Michael Berkowitz) of We are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2010); and the co-editor of an anthology of contemporary American Jewish fiction entitled The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015). Together with David Slucki and Gabriel Finder, he is also the co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (2020). Read More Read Less