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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Join us February 24, 2021 at 12:00 pm for a conversation on contemporary Israeli politics and society with Menachem Hoffnung, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021 – 7:00 pm EDT
Join us for a conversation with Richard Breitman, author of The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany From Within
Join us for a conversation with Professors Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University) and Marc Zvi Brettler (Duke University) about their new book, The Bible With and Without Jesus. on Wed, January 27th at 2:00 pm. We will be taking audience questions.
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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Spring semester is right around the corner. View all the course offerings for this Spring!
A Public Webinar Discussion
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
7:00pm-9:00pm EDT
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A Public Webinar Discussion
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
7:00pm-9:00pm
Read more "Election 2020: Florida and the Jewish Vote in an Era of Crisis"
A Conversation with Nancy Sinkoff
September 15, 2020
07:00 PM
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Antisemitism, Jewish Anxieties, and Counterfactuals
Date: Sep 8, 2020 07:00pm – 9:00pm
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 […]
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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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March 12th, 2020 at 5:30pm
Judaica Suite at Smathers Library
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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February 10th, 2020 at 5:00pm
Judaica Suite at Smathers Library
January 27th, 2020 at 5:30pm
Judaica Suite at Smathers Library
Read more "“The FBI, Jews and Muslims: A History of Suspicion” a talk by Steven Weitzmann"
January 15th, 2020 at 5:30pm
Judaica Suite at Smathers Library
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 […]
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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.
