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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Join us at the Hippodrome State Theater for our annual film festival
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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.
Blair Wales, UF Class of 2023 and University of Virginia School of Law Class of 2026, answers important questions about choosing a Jewish Studies major.
During my first UF advising appointment almost three years ago, I was given an ultimatum: add a minor or graduate early.
A transformative gift from Samuel R. “Bud” Shorstein advances the Center’s mission.
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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Harper Self, UF Class of 2023, Holocaust Studies Certificate, discusses her research on Spain and Greece’s Jews under the Nazis.
Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Writing Awards Announced
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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.
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!
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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The faculty of the Center for Jewish Studies condemns the antisemitic messages drawn near University of Florida campus buildings on February 2, 2023 in support of Kanye West (Ye). These messages endorsed that performer’s own antisemitic remarks from Autumn 2022.
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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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Tickets may be purchased through Hippodrome’s box office: (352) 375-4477or online TheHipp.org
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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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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).
Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Writing Awards Announced
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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 Professorship in Holocaust Studies, created in 2020, will support a new faculty position in the field. The first chairholder will be NATALIA ALEKSIUN, a specialist in […]
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Featuring Ivan Kalmar and Mehnaz Afridi. Sponsored by the Bud Shorstein endowment and the Center for the Global Islamic Study.
September 9th, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Professor Bryan Cheyette will discuss three main elements of Israel Zangwill’s thought and political activism — Ghetto, Zion, Melting Pot — to understand the way that they work in relation to each other both imaginatively and politically.
We recognize with sadness UF student and faculty reports of distress, tensions, and intimidation on campus.
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The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion announce three undergraduate awards for Excellence in Jewish Studies.
Join us for a conversation with Anna Hájková, author of The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt.
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The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion announce three undergraduate awards for Excellence in Jewish Studies.
Entries for awards should be submitted by May 5, 2021.
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