- Survivors’ Toil: The First Decade of Documenting and Studying the Holocaust
Workshop Applications Due March 31.
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- Are the Jews a Race?
Recent cultural events have raised the question as to whether Jews are a race or ethnicity. Join us for a panel discussion featuring three faculty from the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida.
- Remembering the 93 Bais Yaakov Girls: Piety, Sexual Violence, and Holocaust Discourse
Join us for a conversation with Naomi Seidman about the 93 — a group of girls from the Bais Yaakov school in the Kraków Ghetto that reportedly committed suicide rather than be taken as prostitutes by the Nazis.
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- Natalia Aleksiun to be first Harry Rich Professor of East European Holocaust Studies
Thanks to a recent endowment, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida will become a world leader in researching and teaching one of history’s darkest moments.
The Harry Rich Professorship in Holocaust Studies, created in 2020, will support a new faculty position in the field. The first chairholder will ...
- The Light Of Days: The Untold Story Of Women Resistance Fighters In Hitler’s Ghettos
January 26, 2022 at 2 p.m.
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- The Ethics of Rescue: Stories Behind the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Bernice Lerner is the author of All the Horrors of War, the remarkable story of her mother’s liberation from Bergen-Belsen.
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- What is Zionism? Exploring Israel’s Founding Thinkers
Free adult online course at the University of Florida with five 90-minute sessions from January 20-February 17, 2022
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- DerShoymer
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity, in writer-director Keith Thomas’ electrifying feature debut.
- Shared Legacies
The often forgotten story of the coalition and friendship between the Jewish and African-American communities during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Outrement and the Hasidim
Hasidim in the charming, affluent and largely Francophone Montreal borough of Outremont are currently 23% of Outremont’s population.
- Leona
A young Jewish woman from Mexico City finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love with a non-Jewish man.
- Marry Me However
The film tells the stories of LG BT men and women who, for religious reasons, decided to marry against their own sexual orientation.
- The Light Ahead
In a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young, but poor, lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller.
- Kiss Me Kosher
A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, the film is a romantic misadventure crossing a great many borders.
- Winter Journey
Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941.