- Rachel Gordan wins Fellowship Year at Harvard for 2024-25
Professor Rachel Gordan, the Bud Shorstein Professor for American Jewish Culture and Society in the Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has been honored with a fellowship at Harvard University for academic year 2024-25. It has been a fine year for Gordan. Her award-winning book ˆPostwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American appeared with Oxford University ...
- New Book! Postwar Stories by Rachel Gordan, Bud Shorstein Professor of American Culture and Society
The Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies is proud to announce the appearance of Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American by Oxford University Press.
- 13th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival, March 5-27, 2024
Join us at the Hippodrome State Theater for our annual film festival
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- Three Faces of Antisemitism
Please join us on February 20 at 6:00 p.m. in the Keene Faculty Center for a talk with author Jeffrey Herf. Part of the Forum for Fairness in Discourse Series on Understanding the New Antisemitism. Made Possible by Audrey Adams and Jon Morris.
- Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey’s Battles Against Antisemitism and Extremism in Mid-Century Middle America
Join us on January 31 for a talk by Professor Samuel Freedman.
- Peace, Politics and Propaganda: An Insider’s Look at the Challenges Facing Israel on the Military, Media and Political Battlefields.
Join us on February 7 for a talk by Gil Hoffman.
- Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York
Join us on Monday, January 22 for a talk by Professor Deborah Dash Moore. Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced on New York City’s streets and in public spaces in the middle decades of the 20th century.
- Faculty New Book Event: Yaniv Feller’s The Jewish Imperial Imagination. Jan 17, 2024
- Why I Majored in Jewish Studies
Blair Wales, UF Class of 2023 and University of Virginia School of Law Class of 2026, answers important questions about choosing a Jewish Studies major.
- A Biologist with a Jewish Studies Minor?
During my first UF advising appointment almost three years ago, I was given an ultimatum: add a minor or graduate early.
- Jewish Studies Center Receives New Name
A transformative gift from Samuel R. “Bud” Shorstein advances the Center’s mission.
- Antisemitism on American Campuses: Where Does it Come From, and Where is it Going?
Join us on Nov. 7 for a talk featuring Jeffrey Greenberg, a UF alumnus and the American Jewish Committee’s Director of Campus Affairs, which studies and documents antisemitism on US campuses.
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- A Message from the Shorstein Center on the Violence In Israel
- President Sasse’s statement at vigil for Israel, October 9, 2023
- The Past and the Future of Social Protest: Lessons from Nazi Germany and Beyond
Join us for discussions between students and faculty at UF Hillel on Tuesday, October 17 at 4 p.m.
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