Elisabeth Becker

Elisabeth Becker is a postdoctoral fellow with the Religion & Its Publics Project and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, as well as a non-resident fellow with the Muslim Diaspora Initiative, New America Foundation. She is currently completing her academic book, a comparative ethnographic work on European mosques (Unsettled Islam, contracted with University of Chicago Press), and a memoir on her interfaith marriage, migration, and modern urban life (On the Edge of the Worlds, represented by Jessica Craig Literary).

The Invaluable Life Lesson I Learned From A Holocaust Survivor

June 5, 2019May 30, 2019 by Elisabeth Becker

When I am saddened by the news or afraid today, I close my eyes, and I see Gidon in his living room, a man amongst hundreds of books.