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The Berlin Mission

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

Oren Okhovat, PhD candidate in the Department of History, won a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain.

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.”

The Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies Welcomes Professor Roy Holler

Roy Holler

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 […]

Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music

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 […]

New publication by Tamir Sorek and Danyel Reiche

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 […]

Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral

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 […]