- 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
- 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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- 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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- Pizza Study Break for UF Undergrads October 23 at 12 p.m.
- Ukraine and the Jews: an Interdisciplinary Conference
Oct. 2 and 3, the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the Jewish experience in Ukraine.
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- “The American Jewish Experience: Short Presentations in Honor of Bud Shorstein” September 7, 2 PM Pugh Hall Ocora
- Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine & East European Jews: What’s New? What’s Not?
Join us on Wednesday, September 13th at 5:30 PM for a talk by Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.
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- The Current Crisis in Israel and US-Israeli Relations: A Talk by Walter Russell Mead
Join us for a talk by Walter Russell Mead, author of the The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, named a “New York Times Best Book of the Year” for 2022. Professor Mead will discuss the current political crisis in Israel within the context of the ...
- From the Warsaw Ghetto to Human Rights Organizations: The Extraordinary Life of Alina Margolis
A Holocaust survivor, Alina Margolis was a physician, a political refugee, and a public health pioneer. Join us on March 2 for a presentation by the author, Izabela Wagner!
- Universalizing the Holocaust: An International Conference
On February 19-20, 2023, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida will host an interdisciplinary conference devoted to the history and significance of the Holocaust’s universalization.
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