Dr. Lior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University and author of:
Dr. Lina Samimy, a retired Coral Gables physician and artist who was born in Iran.
Just in time for Purim – the celebration originated by the
Jews of Persia – comes “The Jewish Community in Iran,” part of the “A Slice of
Jewish Life” series presented by Temple Beth Am and the Jewish Genealogical
Society of Greater Miami.
The program will take place at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, February
21 on Zoom.
The moderator will be Professor Henry Green of the
University of Miami, who is the International Director of Sephardi Voices. He
will interview Dr. Lina Samimy, a physician and artist from Coral Gables, about
her Iranian heritage. Dr. Samimy was born in Iran and left in the wake of the
1979 revolution there.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Lior Sternfeld, Assistant
Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University’s College of
Liberal Arts. A social historian of the modern Middle East, Sternfeld is the
author of the book “Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of
Twentiety-Century Iran.” He examines Zionism and constitutionalism against the backdrop of Iranian
nationalism, the development and integration of Jewish communities in Iran into
the nation-building projects of the last century.
For more information, visit https://www.tbam.org/ or https://sites.google.com/site/jgsmiami10/
