New publication by Tamir Sorek
Tamir Sorek published Is There a Middle Eastern Sport? in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 51 (3) in 2019.
New publication by Ken Wald
Ken Wald (professor emeritier) published The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Ken Wald’s new book
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.
New publication by Mitchell Hart and Nina Caputo
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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2016 Events
“Better Late Than Never: French Feature Films of the 1970-80s Address the Occupation and the Shoah”, a talk by Maureen Turim on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at the Harn Museum Auditorium. Exploring the trope of hiding Jews in three French narrative films that address anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Francois Truffaut’s Le Denier Metro (1980), Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien (1974), […]
2017 Events
Film Screening: El Rey del Once/The Tenth Man, 7:00 PM, Sept 19 2017, Santa Fe College, E-Auditorium, Bldg. E, Free Admission, Discussion with Jack Kugelmass. “How American Jews Fell in Love with the Secular State”, a talk by Kenneth Wald, Professor Emeritus, Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 6 pm in Pugh Hall Ocora. Kenneth D. […]
2018 Events
“HAZANUT: A concert of Jewish Cantorial Music” annual concert, April 23, 2018 at 7:30pm, University of Florida Auditorium. Yaakov Lemmer, cantor: International cantor Yaakov Yanky Lemmer was born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He began his singing career as the star soloist of the Young Israel of Bethel Choir, and received a scholarship to […]
2019 Events
“Between Israel and the Caribbean Seaboard: The Worldwide Web of Jewish Moroccan Immigrants”, a talk by Aviad Moreno on Monday, January 14. Time and location TBA. “Bringing America together, Taking the Nazis Apart: Hollywood Jews, Moviemaking During World War II, and Implicating Film in the Third Reich”, a talk by Michael Berkowitz on Thursday, April […]