- 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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- Fall 2023 Courses
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- Highest Honors
Harper Self, UF Class of 2023, Holocaust Studies Certificate, discusses her research on Spain and Greece’s Jews under the Nazis.
- Samuel “Bud” Shorstein (UF BSBA 1959) Writing Awardees for the 2022-2023 Academic Year
Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Writing Awards Announced
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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 ...
- Bud Shorstein Writing Award Winners Announced
- Book Prize Winners!
Our own Rachel Gordan and our own Yaniv Feller have both, BOTH, won the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award of the Association for Jewish Studies, the premier academic organization in our field.
- 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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- It’s Been Universal All Along: The Holocaust’s Global Contexts — A Talk By Doris Bergen
Join us on Sunday, February 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the Harn Museum of Art for a keynote address by Doris Bergen, part of the conference ‘Universalizing the Holocaust,’ hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies.
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- A Conversation with Bestselling Author and Scholar Stephen Prothero
Join the Center for Jewish Studies on Monday, March 27 at 3 p.m. in the Keene Faculty Center for a conversation with bestselling author and scholar Stephen Prothero about his new book, God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time.
- Statement on Antisemitic Messages of 2-2-23 at the University of Florida
The faculty of the Center for Jewish Studies condemns the antisemitic messages drawn near University of Florida campus buildings on February 2, 2023 in support of Kanye West (Ye). These messages endorsed that performer’s own antisemitic remarks from Autumn 2022.
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