Songs of War and Peace
Join us for an evening of Israeli music that spans over 70 years, tracing the nation’s history through iconic songs of conflict and reconciliation.
Samuel Bud Shorstein Writing Awardees 2023-2024
Research paper co-winner: Alex Boutin-Johnson Major: English and French major Winning submission: “Instruments of Alterity in the Dreyfus Affair” written for the class “The Dreyfus Affair” taught by Dr. Gayle Zachmann. Alexander explains the paper: “The Dreyfus Affair” was an incident at the turn of the 20th century involving allegations and imprisonment of a Jewish […]
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.
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.
Dr. Armin Langer discusses the recent rise in antisemitism
Dr. Armin Langer, an associate at the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has published two recent articles on antisemitism and extremism. The first, “Antisemitic Myths on the Web Amidst Global Crises of the Early 2000s,” is part of a research study by the European Institute for Counter Terrorism and Conflict Prevention (EICTP) that covers […]
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The evolution of Passover Haggadahs and their art
An essay from Rebecca JW Jefferson, Curator, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
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Rachel Gordan wins Fellowship Year at Harvard for 2024-25
Professor Rachel Gordan, the Bud Shorstein Professor for American Jewish Culture and Society in the Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has been honored with a fellowship at Harvard University for academic year 2024-25. It has been a fine year for Gordan. Her award-winning book ˆPostwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American appeared with Oxford University […]
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New Book! Postwar Stories by Rachel Gordan, Bud Shorstein Professor of American Culture and Society
The Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies is proud to announce the appearance of Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American by Oxford University Press.
Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened
An essay from Rachel Gordan, Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society.
Three Faces of Antisemitism
Please join us on February 20 at 6:00 p.m. in the Keene Faculty Center for a talk with author Jeffrey Herf. Part of the Forum for Fairness in Discourse Series on Understanding the New Antisemitism. Made Possible by Audrey Adams and Jon Morris.
Peace, Politics and Propaganda: An Insider’s Look at the Challenges Facing Israel on the Military, Media and Political Battlefields.
Join us on February 7 for a talk by Gil Hoffman.
South African Lawfare at The Hague
An essay from Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies.
A Biologist with a Jewish Studies Minor?
During my first UF advising appointment almost three years ago, I was given an ultimatum: add a minor or graduate early.
Holocaust Historians, the Genocide Charge, and Gaza
An essay from Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies.
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Studying Gravetones in an Iraqi-Jewish Cemetery
Alexander Slotkin PhD Candidate, English, University of Florida Gary R. Gerson Graduate Scholar, Summer 2022 Introduction Although cemeteries are important in many Jewish communities, gravestones in particular have served as important visual and linguistic texts for many Jewish communities by ensuring that memories of loved ones are preserved over time l’dor v’dor (“from generation to […]
My Year in Paris
Kristin Soulliere Gary R. Gerson Scholar in Jewish Studies I am incredibly honored and grateful to have been supported in my studies this past year by the Gary R. Gerson Scholarship and the UF Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies. With this support, I was able to travel inside and outside of France, work on […]
The Lost Jews of Suriname: Archaeology at Cassipora Creek and Jodensavanne
Simon Goldstone PhD Candidate, Anthropology (Kugelmass) Gary Gerson Graduate Scholar, 2020. Not far from Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, in an overgrown section of jungle lie the remains of an unlikely community: a 17th-century settlement established by Sephardic Crypto-Jews. Forced to convert and live as Christians in Iberia during the Inquisition, these migrants came to […]
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Jewish Life and Death in Daugavpils, Latvia
Samantha G. Gary R. Gerson Undergraduate Scholar, Spring 2022. Receiving the Scholarship Receiving the Gerson Scholarship through UF Jewish Studies was a privilege and an honor. It enabled me to spend a semester in Daugavpils, a city in Latvia close to Lithuania and Belarus that one had a large Jewish population. Latvia’s Jewish history is […]
“When ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ made Jewish Oscars history”, an article by Rachel Gordon
In 1948, when the cinematic version of her story, “Gentleman’s Agreement,” received the Oscar for best picture, Laura Z. Hobson was a 47-year-old, divorced, Jewish single mother living in Manhattan. The success of “Gentleman’s Agreement,” which was serialized in Cosmopolitan in 1946, published by Simon & Schuster in 1947 and produced as a film by […]
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Teaching and Learning at the UF Price Library of Judaica
An essay from Rebecca JW Jefferson, Curator, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
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What a Tennessee School Board and Whoopi Goldberg Have in Common
An essay from Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies.
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The 1940s as the Decade of the Anti-Antisemitism Novel, an article by Rachel Gordon
Mazel Tov to Rachel Gordan for the publication of her article, “The 1940s as the Decade of the Anti-Antisemitism Novel,” in the journal of Religion and American Culture published in June 2021. The abstract can be found here. A great way to start the new academic year!
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Oren Okhovat, PhD candidate in the Department of History, won a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain.
Oren Okhovat(opens in new tab), PhD candidate in the Department of History, won a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain. He will spend the 2019-2020 academic year in Seville conducting research in notarial records for his dissertation, “The Portuguese Jews and the Spanish Atlantic: Constructed Communities and Cultural Crossroads in the Seventeenth Century.”
Robert Kawashima has been appointed to an editorial committee
Robert Kawashima has been appointed to an editorial committee, organized by the Society of Biblical Literature, under the auspices of the National Council of Churches, charged with updating the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the most widely used translation of the Bible in the English-speaking academic world.
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Gayle Zachmann has been awarded a Florence Gould Foundation
Gayle Zachmann has been awarded a Florence Gould Foundation grant to continue her annual Paris research workshop — “Cultural Production in Nineteenth-Century France” — at the Université Paris-Diderot, Paris 7. The workshop will take place June 2020.
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Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music
On March 5, 2020 Dragan Kujundžić will screen his new film “Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music,” at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. In 2016, Sergei Shnurov and his group Leningrad released two now-famous video clips, “Exponat” and “V Pitere pit’”, which were […]
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The Museum of Tolerance and a special preview preview of Cojot, a film Boaz Dvir
The Museum of Tolerance invites you and a guest to a special preview of Cojot, a film by Boaz Dvir
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Alice Freifeld is completing her book manuscript
Alice Freifeld is completing her book manuscript on displaced Hungarian Jewry at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as the 2019–2020 Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar for the Study of Antisemitism.
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New publication by Tamir Sorek and Danyel Reiche
Tamir Sorek and Danyel Reiche have published the edited collection Sports, Society, and Politics in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019) — This interdisciplinary edited volume discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. Eleven chapters trace the historical institutionalization of sport and the role it has played in negotiating […]
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