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.
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, 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 […]
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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 […]
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The Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies is proud to announce the appearance of Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American by Oxford University Press.
Our own Rachel Gordan and our own Yaniv Feller have both, BOTH, won the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award of the Association for Jewish Studies, the premier academic organization in our field.
L-R: Yossi Turner (Israel Institute Visiting Professor), Yehoshua Ecker (Jews in Muslim Countries), Natalia Aleksiun (Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies), Roy Holler (Israel Studies, Hebrew Literature), Yaniv Feller (Modern Jewish Thought).
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. […]
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Thanks to a recent endowment, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida will become a world leader in researching and teaching one of history’s darkest moments. The Harry Rich […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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. […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral fellowship from Fordham University’s Department of Jewish Studies and the New York Public Library in summer 2019. She presented at Columbia University’s conference “Antisemitism in […]
Tamir Sorek published Is There a Middle Eastern Sport? in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 51 (3) in 2019.
Ken Wald (professor emeritier) published The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Ken Wald’s newest book The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism (Cambridge University Press) has won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies.
Mitchell Hart and Nina Caputo published the edited volume On the Word of a Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust with Indiana University Press in 2019. The essays examine how and when […]
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