Biography
Dr. Elad Wexler is a Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. Before that Wexler was the head of the Research Institute of the Ethiopian Jewry Heritage Center in Jerusalem. He received his PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His dissertation, which deals with the Bohemia of Tel-Aviv in the 1960s and 1970s, will be published in Hebrew by The Open University and Ben-Gurion Institute, and in English by McGill-Queen's University Press. Wexler is also a filmmaker. He produced Lady Titi (2019), a feature film and the first film about Ethiopian-Israelis, screened commercially in cinemas all over Israel.