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Paul George + Henry Green: Co-Authors of “Jewish Miami Beach”

Paul George + Henry Green:   Co-Authors of “Jewish Miami Beach”

Introduction to Paul George + Henry Green. 1:38 min. Interview: Raymond Elman.  Post-Production: Lee Skye.   Recorded via ZOOM  11/24/24, Miami Book Fair.

 

PAUL S. GEORGE is the resident historian at HistoryMiami Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate. A native Miamian, George is a Miami Dade Community College and University of Miami graduate. He holds a master’s and a Ph.D. in history from Florida State University, and has taught at Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Florida Atlantic University, the University of Miami, and Miami Dade College, where he holds emeritus status. George has written 17 books, including two award-winning titles, hundreds of articles, and numerous book reviews, columns, and unpublished manuscripts. He served as president of the Florida Historical Society, vice chairman of Miami’s Heritage Preservation Board, director of Broward County’s Historic Preservation Board, and president of The Wolfson Archives. He has curated several historical exhibitions at HistoryMiami and the Jewish Museum of Florida at Florida International University and conducts award-winning history tours of Miami and surrounding areas. He has received several teaching awards, including from Wolfson’s National Society of Leadership and Success and the Dade Heritage Trust. George is a member of the Miami-Dade County Library Advisory Board and the Grievance Committee of the Florida Bar. He is currently the editor of the historical academic journal Tequesta.

HENRY GREEN is a professor of religious studies and the former director of Judaic and Sephardic studies at the University of Miami. He is the founding director of the MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida Project at the Jewish Museum of Florida at Florida International University, and Sephardi Voices, an audiovisual digital archive of Arab Jews. He is also the co-author of Jewish Miami Beach (Arcadia Publishing) with Paul S. George, Ph.D., and many other publications regarding Jewish Miami and human rights, including Jews displaced from Arab lands. He has served as a visiting fellow at Oxford University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

— https://miamibookfair.com/

 

The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:    0:58 sec.

Where did you grow up, and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

 

SERENDIPITY:    2:00 min.

What was your inspiration for co-writing “Jewish Miami Beach”?

 

CRITICAL THINKING:    0:23 sec.

Does your book end with the beginning of the 21st century?

 

CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND:    1:49 min.

Henry, are you still deeply involved with the Jewish Museum of Florida?

 

SERENDIPITY:    1:04 min.

What’s the backstory for the iconic Joe’s Stone Crab?

 

EMPATHY:     1:03 min.

Tell us about antisemitism in Miami and Miami Beach.

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:     0:50 sec.

Tell us about the Ball & Chain during the Jim Crow era.

 

EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES:     0:41 sec.

Have you read Tom Wolfe’s book about Miami, “Back to Blood”?

 

CRITICAL THINKING:    1:51 min.

What’s on your drawing board?