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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It took years of reflecting, writing and researching “passing,” exploring the ways we hide our identities, before coming to terms with my own personal passing story. I was born and raised in Israel, where, some of you might have guessed, the name Roy is not exactly a popular choice for newborn baby boys. My real […]
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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. The workshop will take place June 2020.
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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, 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 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 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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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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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 the Americas” in May 2019, and at the “Jews in the Americas” symposium at the University of British Columbia in July 2019. Gordan participated in the […]
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 Jews were recognized as reliable and trustworthy in the areas of jurisprudence, medicine, politics, academia, culture, business, and finance. The authors reveal how caricatures of […]
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