Tudor Parfitt has traveled throughout the Jewish world for the last forty odd years, visiting some of the most remote Jewish communities on earth. Tudor will lead a panel discussion with Nathan Devir about exploration through travel and what these journeys in Africa and Asia have meant to him. This evening will inaugurate the exhibition of Parfitt’s travels. Part of the Mondays at the Museum Spring 2022 Series.

Tudor Parfitt is Distinguished University Professor, the President Navon Professor of Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies, and Founding Director of the Program for Global Jewish Studies at Florida International University. He is Academic Director at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. He is corresponding fellow of the Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has authored or edited 31 books and presented seven documentaries for the BBC, PBS, Channel Four, and the History Channel.

Nathan P. Devir is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah. He has published widely on notions of religious belonging in Africa, including the monograph New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization (University of Utah Press, 2017).