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One Year After October 7: What Have We Learned?

Join the University of Florida’s Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies on October 21 as it visits South Florida to assess the effects of October 7 on the Jewish world, one year after the Hamas attacks. The featured speaker will be Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (2021).

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Natalia Aleksiun Receives Major Fellowship

During the 2024-25 academic year, Prof. Natalia Aleksiun (the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies in UF’s Shorstein Center) will hold the Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania. The Katz Center is one of the world’s most prestigious research centers in the field of Jewish studies.

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Dr. Or Honig to Teach Israeli Diplomacy and Intelligence

Dr. Or Honig is joining the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies as an Israel Institute Visiting Scholar. He will teach courses on Israel focusing on Israeli diplomacy and security concerns, and he will be with the center for the next three academic years. His courses will be cross-listed with Political Science.

New Volume by Shorstein Center Author

Professor Yaniv Feller, a professor of Judaism and Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has published a new book titled Covenantal Thinking: Essays on the Philosophy and Theology of David Novak with the University of Toronto Press.

Welcome from Director of the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

This is an important academic year for the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies. Despite the current political climate, our faculty have maintained a commitment to integrity in teaching, researching, and providing public programs on the rich and broad Jewish story, from the Hebrew Bible to the modern state of Israel.

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One Year After October 7: What Have We Learned?

Natalia Aleksiun Receives Major Fellowship

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New Volume by Shorstein Center Author

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