Lecture by Judith Lin | Listening Between the Lines: Ladino Holocaust Testimonies from Thessaloniki, Greece

When: April 13th @ 6PM
Where: Jewish Museum of Florida at Florida International University (Map)

Please join Fortunoff Archive fellow Judith Lin for her lecture on April 13th, Yom HaShoah, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM at the Jewish Museum of Florida.

Judith Lin is a writer and researcher of the Sephardic Holocaust experience. She completed her PhD as a Rachel Winer Manon Jewish Studies fellow at the University of Virginia. After many years working with face-to-face with survivors, Judith has developed listening strategies that rely on trust, multilingualism, and co-created memory. Judith’s work combines analysis of oral testimonies with archival papers and collected writings in Ladino.

Her first monograph, Belonging to Exile: Sephardic Homelands through Poetry, discusses the different national geographies that appealed to Sephardic Holocaust survivors after the war. Her second book-length project, Membranza: Listening to Sephardic Voices touched by the Holocaust, explores the relationship between language and visceral memory in testimonies that have been recorded in Ladino.

This lecture is sponsored by the Navon Speaker Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies at Florida International University's Department of Religious Studies.