Events
Screening of TORN (with Director Q&A to follow) MARCH 19th
Mar. 10, 2025—
Jewish Studies to host Dr. Anna Duensing, March 26th
Jan. 24, 2025—Anna Duensing explores how a wide variety of Black Americans, including civil rights and labor organizers, journalists, artists, musicians, soldiers, and veterans, responded to Nazi Germany’s persecution, deportation, and later, mass murder, of European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. Her talk will pay particular attention to the immediate postwar moment and the intersection of...
Jewish Studies Essay Contest 2025
Jan. 24, 2025—
Jewish Identity in Contemporary Morocco: Memory, Reconciliation, and Citizenship
Jan. 24, 2025—Jewish Identity in Contemporary Morocco: Memory, Reconciliation, and Citizenship Tuesday, October 15th 123 Buttrick Noon to 1:30pm Aomar Boum is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Departments of Anthropology, History, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. A historical anthropologist, Boum is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities...
March 26, 2024 – Conversation: Shay Hazkani of the University of Maryland
Mar. 26, 2024—March 26, 2024 Wilson 126 Join us in conversation with Sam Dolbee, D Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East and Shay Hazkani of the University of Maryland. The discussion is sponsored by the Departments of Jewish Studies and History.
March 25, 2024 – Lecture: Max Czollek speaks on Radical Diversity and the Integration Paradigm
Mar. 25, 2024—March 25, 2024 Alumni 201 Lunch provided The Department of Jewish Studies hosts writer, poet, and stage performer Max Czollek for a lecture discussing the challenges of diversity, integration, and current politics.
March 4, 2024 – Lecture: The Neo-Nazi Threat: Lessons from Germany and the United States
Mar. 4, 2024—March 4, 2024 Alumni Hall, room 201 The Department of Jewish Studies, the Department of History, and the Office of the Provost present Dr. Michelle Kahn, assistant professor of modern European history from the University of Richmond. She will discuss The Neo-Nazi Threat: Lessons from Germany and the United States.