Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

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.

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.