September 28th, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Has the two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict become an impossibility? Is a “new-state” solution all that is left?
October 31st, 2021 at 12:00 PM
In an era full of anecdotal evidence — which is, by nature, partial and often misleading — the need to bring evidence-based perspectives to democracy’s front lines has become paramount.
Read more "Israel at a Crossroads: Directions, Perceptions, Illusions, and Challenges"
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. The abstract can be found here. A great way to start the new academic year!
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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.
Read more "Public Trust in Israel’s Judiciary: The Effect of Political Polarization"
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 notarial records for his dissertation, “The Portuguese Jews and the Spanish Atlantic: Constructed Communities and Cultural Crossroads in the Seventeenth Century.”
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 Version of the Bible, the most widely used translation of the Bible in the English-speaking academic world.
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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
Read more "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poets and Social Justice"
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
Read more "The Political Journey of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz"
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 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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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, 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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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 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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