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January 2022
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
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).
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Bais Yaakov and ‘the 93’: A Conversation with Naomi Seidman
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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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.
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“It Can Happen Here Too”: Antisemitism, Gender, And The American Past
This lecture explores Jewish women’s encounters with this hatred and asks whether inserting women and gender will reshape the history of American antisemitism.
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Israel’s Moment: Support for and Opposition to the Founding of the Jewish State – A Conversation with Jeffrey Herf
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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12th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival
Tickets may be purchased through Hippodrome's box office: (352) 375-4477or online TheHipp.org
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Samuel Bud Shorstein Lecture Series on American Jewish Culture
Join us for this series of events made possible by the Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Chair in American Jewish Society and Culture.
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Publishing Jews and American Literature:
A Talk with Josh Lambert
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?
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American Shtetl:
A Virtual Discussion With David Myers
And Nomi M. Stolzenberg
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.
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Jewish Women In Comics
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.
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