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2019 Events

“Between Israel and the Caribbean Seaboard: The Worldwide Web of Jewish Moroccan Immigrants”, a talk by Aviad Moreno on Monday, January 14. Time and location TBA.

“Bringing America together, Taking the Nazis Apart: Hollywood Jews, Moviemaking During World War II, and Implicating Film in the Third Reich”, a talk by Michael Berkowitz on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 5pm in the Smathers Library Judaica Suite..
Berkowitz is professor of Modern Jewish History at University College, London. His current long-range projects include the development of a musical based on his photography research, and an exhibition to accompany the Kaunas, European Capital of Culture festivities beginning in 2022.

02/04-05/19, Philippe Sands

02/12/19, Raef Zreik

02/18-19/19, Robert Orsi

  • Made possible through the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

02/23-25/19, Jews and the Americas 68th Annual Conference

  • Made possible through the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

02/27/19, Annual Concert

03/09-11/19, Symposium on The Jewish 1950s

03/17-03/30/19, 9th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival

04/04/19, Michael Berkowitz

  • Made possible through the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

04/07-08/19, Aaron Lansky

04/11-12/19, Samuel Weber