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.
Jews in the Red Army in World War II: A Talk by Oleg Budnitskii
Join us on February 3 at 5:30 p.m. in the Judaica Suite.
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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).
13th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival, March 5-27, 2024
Join us at the Hippodrome State Theater for our annual film festival
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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.
Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey’s Battles Against Antisemitism and Extremism in Mid-Century Middle America
Join us on January 31 for a talk by Professor Samuel Freedman.
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.
Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York
Join us on Monday, January 22 for a talk by Professor Deborah Dash Moore. Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced on New York City’s streets and in public spaces in the middle decades of the 20th century.
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Antisemitism on American Campuses: Where Does it Come From, and Where is it Going?
Join us on Nov. 7 for a talk featuring Jeffrey Greenberg, a UF alumnus and the American Jewish Committee’s Director of Campus Affairs, which studies and documents antisemitism on US campuses.
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The Past and the Future of Social Protest: Lessons from Nazi Germany and Beyond
Join us for discussions between students and faculty at UF Hillel on Tuesday, October 17 at 4 p.m.
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Ukraine and the Jews: an Interdisciplinary Conference
Oct. 2 and 3, the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the Jewish experience in Ukraine.
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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine & East European Jews: What’s New? What’s Not?
Join us on Wednesday, September 13th at 5:30 PM for a talk by Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
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The Current Crisis in Israel and US-Israeli Relations: A Talk by Walter Russell Mead
Join us for a talk by Walter Russell Mead, author of the The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, named a “New York Times Best Book of the Year” for 2022. Professor Mead will discuss the current political crisis in Israel within the context of the relationship between Israel and the US.
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From the Warsaw Ghetto to Human Rights Organizations: The Extraordinary Life of Alina Margolis
A Holocaust survivor, Alina Margolis was a physician, a political refugee, and a public health pioneer. Join us on March 2 for a presentation by the author, Izabela Wagner!
Universalizing the Holocaust: An International Conference
On February 19-20, 2023, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida will host an interdisciplinary conference devoted to the history and significance of the Holocaust’s universalization.
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It’s Been Universal All Along: The Holocaust’s Global Contexts — A Talk By Doris Bergen
Join us on Sunday, February 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the Harn Museum of Art for a keynote address by Doris Bergen, part of the conference ‘Universalizing the Holocaust,’ hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies.
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A Conversation with Bestselling Author and Scholar Stephen Prothero
Join the Center for Jewish Studies on Monday, March 27 at 3 p.m. in the Keene Faculty Center for a conversation with bestselling author and scholar Stephen Prothero about his new book, God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time.
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Munich 1923: Hitler’s Insurrection and the Rise of Antisemitism
Join us for this free talk by Michael Brenner on February 6! Michael Brenner is a Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., where he serves as director of the Center for Israel Studies.
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A Conversation With Mark Oppenheimer
Whoa, where did this come from? The Antisemitism of 2022 and Its Origins. Mark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he recently retired after 15 years as the founding director of the Yale Journalism Initiative.
Iranian Uprising And The Nuclear Threat
The public is invited to The Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat: How Should the West Respond?, a presentation by German political scientist and historian Dr. Matthias Küntzel on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 6 pm in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
Jewish Women In Comics
Join us for a panel discussion on the new book, Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders, an innovative collection of essays, interviews, and artwork examining Jewish women’s comics.
American Shtetl: A Virtual Discussion With David Myers And Nomi M. Stolzenberg
Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. David Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg will discuss how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown into a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York.
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Publishing Jews and American Literature: A Talk with Josh Lambert
How did Jews’ success in the U.S. publishing industry affect the development of American literature, in general, and representations of Jews, in particular? And what lessons can be learned from the history of Jews in publishing about how to make publishing more equitable in the future?
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12th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival event
Tickets may be purchased through Hippodrome’s box office: (352) 375-4477or online TheHipp.org
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Samuel Bud Shorstein Lecture Series On American Jewish Culture
Join us for this series of events made possible by the Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Chair in American Jewish Society and Culture.
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Israel’s Moment: Support for and Opposition to the Founding of the Jewish State – A Conversation with Jeffrey Herf
The State of Israel was established in 1947–1948 when the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc, and two-thirds of the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Zionist project.