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).
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.
September 30, 2 – 5 p.m. in the Smathers Library Judaica Suite
Dr. Or Honig is joining the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies as an Israel Institute Visiting Scholar. He will teach courses on Israel focusing on Israeli diplomacy and security concerns, and he will be with the center for the next three academic years. His courses will be cross-listed with Political Science.
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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.
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.
Join us on January 31 for a talk by Professor Samuel Freedman.
Join us on February 7 for a talk by Gil Hoffman.
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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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.
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.
Read more "Antisemitism on American Campuses: Where Does it Come From, and Where is it Going?"
Join us for discussions between students and faculty at UF Hillel on Tuesday, October 17 at 4 p.m.
Read more "The Past and the Future of Social Protest: Lessons from Nazi Germany and Beyond"
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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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.
Read more "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine & East European Jews: What’s New? What’s Not?"
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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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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