The moment of Moroccan independence in 1956 was optimistic for Jews. The Istiqlal ("Independence" in Arabic) government with King Mohammed V at its head appointed a Jewish minister, and the Muslim-Jewish unity group, al-Wifaq ("Accord"), drew the support from all segments of society. Such movements, however, coincided with the 1956 Suez crisis. Following this conflict, …
This chapter explores the Moroccan Communist Party's (PCM) evolution into a national liberation party in the post-war period. It addresses urban Jewish communal attitudes to the movement for independence and the available marketplace for political ideas and ideologies, including the accelerating popularity of Zionism. As Jews began to leave Morocco for Israel, those Jews who …
Gerald Steinacher is the Hyman Rosenberg Professor for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice, which won the Jewish Book Award, and Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust Made possible through the Norman and Irma Braman Chair …
In March 1968, the Polish government launched an anti-Zionist campaign, which forced over 12,000 Jews to leave Poland. Many saw the expulsion as the final chapter of Polish Jewish history. Yet, today's Polish Jewish community is thriving with Jewish schools, summer camps, and Jewish community centers and congregations, often supported by international Jewish organizations. Polish …
"The chilling pathos of Dara Horn's Eternal Life is bound to turn every mortal reader into a philosopher of cosmic joy," Cynthia Ozick, writes of Dara Horn's most recent novel, Eternal Life, a book about the bonds between generations and purpose of life and death. Horn is the author of five novels. She received her Ph.D. in comparative …
A feature-length documentary that follows the life of Michel Cojot-Goldberg, a Nazi hunter, Entebbe hostage, and a Klaus Barbie trial witness. Developed from a project at the UF Paris Research Center, and shot in numerous locations in France, UK, Israel and the US, the film is composed from over a hundred hours of footage, archival …
Associate Professor of History at the College of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston. His work is connected by his deep interest in the history of religions, religious conversion, irreligion, messianism, mysticism, crypto-double identities, and religion and modernity. Currently he is teaching courses on world history, Islamic empires, and the modern Middle East.
This talk examines the process of Jewish emigration from Spanish-dominated northern Morocco, and points to the trans-regional, interpersonal, communal and institutional networks that jointly shaped the character and pace of that exodus to Israel and Latin America, beginning in the 19th century. Moreno is a faculty member at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and …
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their own words, veterans both famous (director Mel Brooks, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) and unknown share their war experiences: how they fought for their nation and people, …
Professor of Law at University College London and a barrister at Matrix Chambers. He is the author of Principles of International Environmental Law (4th edition, 2018), Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008). His latest book is East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (Alfred Knopf/Weidenfeld & Nicolson), winner of …
The Mediterranean port city of Salonica was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city’s incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval for Salonica’s Jews. Professor Naar’s award-winning book, Jewish Salonica, tells the story through the voices of Salonican Jews as …
UF Center for Latin American Studies' 68th Annual Conference The conference is jointly sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida. Funding is also provided by the U.S. Department of Education and the Bacardi Family Endowment. …
Tel-Aviv based Palestinian-Israeli singer, songwriter, actress, and activist for coexistence, Awad’s songs and performances evoke a stunning fusion of Eastern and Western musical traditions. Israeli pianist Guy Mentus is a virtuoso performer of traditions ranging from Turkish to Jewish cantorial music.
Saturday evening, 7pm dinner at Jack Kugelmass's home Jennifer Meeropol, "Ethel Rosenberg, the Communist in the Kitchen" Sunday, Seminar Room, Walker Hall 11am–12:30pm, Jewishness and Judaism Sandy Fox (Ben-Gurion University) “American Jewish Summer Camps of the Fifties: Yiddishism, Zionism, and Jewish Education in Transition” Rachel Gordan (UF) “The Midcentury Middlebrow Moment in American Jewish Culture” 12:30-1:30pm, Lunch …
Festival Passes $108 = 13 screenings $72 = 8 screenings $36 = 4 screenings $10 = 1 screening UF students are FREE* with valid ID *on a first-come basis. Students wishing to reserve seats should call 352.371.3846. Sunday, March 17 at 7:30 pm Black Honey Uri Barbash – 2018 - Israel (Hebrew, Yiddish) 76 …
A talk by Michael Berkowitz Professor of modern Jewish history at University College London and editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England (UCL Press). He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and taught previously at the University of Chicago, Ohio State University, and the University of Judaism …
Blending musical, linguistic, liturgical and folkloric traditions, the concert explores the beauty and surprising ease of creating intercultural harmonies and resonances. Performers: Yair Dalal (oud and violin) Lenka Lichtenberg (guitar and harmonium) Dror Sinai (percussion) The concert is free and open to the public. Made possible through: The Libby Frances Brateman Trust, Gary R. Gerson Annual …
XII Florida Cervantes Symposium Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rachel Schmidt, Department of Classical Studies, University of Calgary Presents Ingenium/Ingenio as a Form of Knowing and Thinking in Early-Modern Spain and the Americas For information on the complete schedule of the event and speakers, go to spanishandportuguese.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/221/fcs-schedule.pdf Sponsored by UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies (Enhancement Fund), …
Jewish Humor in . . . post-Expulsion Spain? Yiddish humor is well-known. But Professor Kenneth Brown researches the “DNA” of Sephardic humor to the most unlikely of places: Cervantes’s famous novel of 1605, Don Quixote of La Mancha. A widely-published scholar of medieval romance philology, Professor Brown (University of Calgary) will present his findings at …
A talk by Joshua Teplitsky Assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University. He specializes in the history of the Jews in Europe in the early modern period, with a particular interest in cultures of knowledge-making, printing, and book collecting David Oppenheim (1664–1736), chief rabbi of Prague …
A talk by Dariusz Stola Professor of history at the Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was director of the POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw from its opening in 2014 until 2019. His seven books include The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967-1968.
A talk by Myla Goldberg Bestselling novelist, winner of the Borders New Voices Prize, a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award, the NYPL Young Lions award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover award, and recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant. Goldberg writes and teaches in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband Jason Little …
Join us for a conversation with Anna Hájková, author of The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt.
Has the two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict become an impossibility? Is a “new-state” solution all that is left?
Professor Bryan Cheyette will discuss three main elements of Israel Zangwill’s thought and political activism — Ghetto, Zion, Melting Pot — to understand the way that they work in relation to each other both imaginatively and politically.
Join us for a live presentation by Günther Jikeli of Indiana University on the contemporary global spike in antisemitism, its roots, its spread, and prospects for the future.
In 1924, two Jewish University of Chicago students, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, kidnapped and murdered fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks.
Henriette Dahan Kalev is a professor emerita at Ben Gurion University in Negev, Israel.
This event is sponsored by the Bud Shorstein endowment and the Center for the Global Islamic Study.
In an era full of anecdotal evidence — which is, by nature, partial and often misleading — the need to bring evidence-based perspectives to democracy’s front lines has become paramount.
Liel Leibovitz is a senior writer for Tablet Magazine and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.
Aside from being an American Jewish gadfly, a militant rabbi, and founder of the Jewish Defense League, Meir Kahane was an unrelenting critic of American Jewish liberalism.
We will speak with award-winning novelist, essayist and podcast host Dara Horn about her new book of essays.
In 2007 Judy Batalion was researching at the British Library when she came across a dusty old book, Freuen in di Ghettos (Women in the Ghettos).
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.
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.
This lecture explores Jewish women’s encounters with this hatred and asks whether inserting women and gender will reshape the history of American antisemitism.
The State of Israel was established in 1947–1948 when the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc, and two-thirds of the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Zionist project.
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Join us for this series of events made possible by the Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Chair in American Jewish Society and Culture.
How did Jews' success in the U.S. publishing industry affect the development of American literature, in general, and representations of Jews, in particular? And what lessons can be learned from the history of Jews in publishing about how to make publishing more equitable in the future?
Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. David Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg will discuss how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown into a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York.
Join us for a panel discussion on the new book, Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders, an innovative collection of essays, interviews, and artwork examining Jewish women’s comics.
Bernice Lerner is the author of All the Horrors of War, the remarkable story of her mother’s liberation from Bergen-Belsen.
Join us for an in-person conversation with Mark Oppenheimer, religion writer and scholar. Mark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a PhD in religious studies from Yale.
Michael Brenner is a Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., where he serves as director of the Center for Israel Studies. He also holds the chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. This event is free and open to the public.
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.
Join us for a keynote address by Doris Bergen, part of the conference 'Universalizing the Holocaust,' hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies.
The life of Zygmunt Bauman (1925- 2017) encapsulates 90 years of European history. A sociologist, a critical observer of western societies, a public intellectual, and one of the fathers of postmodernity, Bauman experienced major events and sociological processes that shaped Europe in the 20th century.
A Holocaust survivor, Alina Margolis was a physician, a political refugee, and a public health pioneer. Her extraordinary life encapsulates the global history of the 20th century.
Join the Center for Jewish Studies 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.
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 relationship between Israel and the US.
Featuring three short scholarly presentations in honor of Bud Shorstein.
