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Joshua Eli Plaut
Joshua Eli Plaut is a folklorist, historian and photo-ethnographer. His two specialties are Balkan and Sephardi Jewish history and folk culture in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Greece, Turkey, and Central Asia, and American Jewish popular culture and religious life. His photography exhibitions, which deal with Jewish life in Greece, Turkey, New Zealand, Central Asia, Morocco, Israel, the American South, have traveled to museums and galleries internationally. His most recent projects include a twenty-year compilation of Jewish markets and merchants across the globe and a collection of portraits of well-known American Jews. His books include Greek Jewry in the Twentieth Century, 1913-1983: Patterns of Jewish Communal Survival in the Greek Provinces before and after the Holocaust and Silent Night? Being Jewish at Christmas-time in America: Proclaiming Identity in the Face of Seasonal Marginality (forthcoming). Joshua has an M.A. in Folklore and Mythology from University of California, Los Angeles, a Master of Hebrew Letters and Rabbinic Ordination from Hebrew Union College, and a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University. He is currently the Executive Director of American Friends of Rabin Medical Center, representing Israel's largest medical complex in the United States. Before that he was Executive Director of the Center for Jewish History, and a university Rabbi at MIT and Trinity College, and a congregational leader in Martha's Vineyard.
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