Lisa Moses Leff
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the USHMM, and Professor of History at American University
Full Biography
Dr. Lisa Moses Leff is Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the USHMM, and Professor of History at American University. Her research focuses on the Jews of modern France, and her books include Colonialism and the Jews (co-edited with Ethan Katz and Maud Mandel, 2017) and The Archive Thief: the Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust (2015), which received the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature.
