- The Plot Against America Webinar
Antisemitism, Jewish Anxieties, and Counterfactuals
Date: Sep 8, 2020 07:00pm – 9:00pm - Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Writing Awards in Jewish Studies
The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion announce three undergraduate awards for Excellence in Jewish Studies.
Entries for awards should be submitted by May 5, 2021.
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- The Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies Welcomes Professor Roy Holler
- Gayle Zachmann has been awarded a Florence Gould Foundation
Gayle Zachmann has been awarded a Florence Gould Foundation grant to continue her annual Paris research workshop — “Cultural Production in Nineteenth-Century France” — at the Université Paris-Diderot, Paris 7.
The workshop will take place June 2020.
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- “Is America ‘Different?’: Antisemitism and the Belief in American Exceptionalism” a talk by Tony Michels
March 12th, 2020 at 5:30pm
Judaica Suite at Smathers Library - Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music
On March 5, 2020 Dragan Kujundžić will screen his new film “Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music,” at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, ...
- “The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction” a talk by Jay Howard Geller
February 10th, 2020 at 5:00pm
Judaica Suite at Smathers Library - “The FBI, Jews and Muslims: A History of Suspicion” a talk by Steven Weitzmann
January 27th, 2020 at 5:30pm
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- “Norman Mailer, American Jews and the Conundrum of White Liberals” a talk by Kevin Schultz
January 15th, 2020 at 5:30pm
Judaica Suite at Smathers Library - The Museum of Tolerance and a special preview preview of Cojot, a film Boaz Dvir
The Museum of Tolerance invites you and a guest to a special preview of Cojot, a film by Boaz Dvir
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- Alice Freifeld is completing her book manuscript
Alice Freifeld is completing her book manuscript on displaced Hungarian Jewry at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as the 2019–2020 Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar for the Study of Antisemitism.
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- New publication by Tamir Sorek and Danyel Reiche
Tamir Sorek and Danyel Reiche have published the edited collection Sports, Society, and Politics in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019) — This interdisciplinary edited volume discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. Eleven chapters trace the historical institutionalization of sport and the ...
- For College Students Today, Anti-Semitism Is Not Old News by Rachel Gordan
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- Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral
Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral fellowship from Fordham University’s Department of Jewish Studies and the New York Public Library in summer 2019. She presented at Columbia University’s conference “Antisemitism in the Americas” in May 2019, and at the “Jews in the Americas” symposium at the University of British Columbia in July 2019. ...
- 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.