Avinoam Patt Named Inaugural Director of NYU’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism
New Center also Receives Another 7-Figure Gift
NYU President Linda G. Mills today announced the appointment of Professor Avinoam Patt as the inaugural director of NYU’s Center for Study of Antisemitism and the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies in NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Patt—a scholar of the Holocaust and Israel whose work at the University of Connecticut included a one-credit course titled Why the Jews? Confronting Antisemitism that reached over 1,600 students in its first semester—is an alumnus of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science.
The naming of Professor Patt as the Center’s director comes as the Center received a $1 million anonymous gift, its second seven-figure gift since the announcement of its establishment in November 2023.