Avi­noam J. Patt is the Doris and Simon Konover Pro­fes­sor of Juda­ic Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, where he is also direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Juda­ic Stud­ies and Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life. He is the author of Find­ing Home and Home­land: Jew­ish Youth and Zion­ism in the After­math of the Holo­caust and co-edi­­tor with Michael Berkowitz of ​We are Here: New Approach­es to the Study of Jew­ish Dis­placed Per­sons in Post­war Ger­many. He is a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al projects at the Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um and co-author of the source vol­ume Jew­ish Respons­es to Per­se­cu­tion,1938 – 1940. He is co-edi­tor of The New Dias­po­ra: The Chang­ing Land­scape of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fic­tion (with Vic­to­ria Aarons and Mark Shech­n­er), The JDC at 100: A Cen­tu­ry of Human­i­tar­i­an­ism (with Ati­na Gross­mann, Lin­da Levi, and Maud Man­del), and Under­stand­ing and Teach­ing the Holo­caust (with Lau­ra Hilton). His most recent book (pub­lished in May 2021) is The Jew­ish Heroes of War­saw: The After­life of the Revolt.