On November 5, the Shorstein Center welcomed Dr. Stacey Pierson, Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, London. Attendees filled the Price Judaica Suite to the brim. Pierson shared her research about the fascinating life of Sir Percival David, a Baghdadi Jewish philanthropist and collector of Chinese ceramics whose legacy connects Mumbai […]
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Professor Natalia Aleksiun was reappointed to the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The committee is an important resource for helping to advance the work of the Museum.
Professor Rachel Gordan was invited to serve on the Executive Committee of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). The Council directs and supports the organization’s academic programs and research activities. Founded in 1892, the AJHS is the oldest ethnic and cultural archive in the United States. Its mission is to promote […]
Professor Yaniv Feller was recently awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for returning fellows at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The Foundation supports outstanding researchers from around the world. Feller will spend the upcoming summer in Munich with the University’s history department, where he will focus on his new book project Jew in a Box: […]
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The University of Florida’s Price Library of Judaica has received an exciting new addition to its Latin American Jewish holdings: a library of Yiddish books primarily published in Buenos Aires, accompanied by related personal papers and documents.
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Professors Yaniv Feller & Rachel Gordan recently presented at the international conference “Transatlantic Jewish Publishing: The Legacy of Schocken books” from October 8 to 10, which took place at the German Literary Archive in Marbach am Neckar, Germany. Professor Feller presented his paper “Paperback Judaism” while Professor Gordan presented her paper “The 1940s-1950s Opening of […]
On October 23, 2025, Professor Natalia Aleksiun participated in a workshop and panel discussion titled “Secrets and Sources,” organized by the Anne Tannenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the event brought together scholars to discuss how Holocaust researchers address silences, […]
On October 29, Professor Rachel Gordan gave a zoom talk about the acclaimed movie Gentleman’s Agreement to the “Religion in American Public Life” course at the University of Rochester, taught by Professor Dan Gorman.
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A new article by Prof. Raanan Rein, “Argentine Football and the Failed Struggle against Discrimination”, recently published in Emma Poulton (ed.), Antisemitism in Football: International Perspectives, Routledge 2025. Vol. 19 in his book series Jewish Latin America was just published: Jewish Latin American Artists: Perspectives from the Global South, edited by Laura Rachel Felleman Fattal […]
The Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies is deeply saddened to share the passing of Gary R. Gerson (BSAc ’54, MBA ’55) on October 22 at the age of 92.
Professor Raanan Rein of Tel Aviv University will join the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies as the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies in August 2025.
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This week, Professor Roy Holler will present mutual research conducted with fellow Shorstein Center Professor Iris Cohen at the 41st Annual Conference of the Association of Israel Studies, held at the University of Haifa. The Association for Israel Studies conference is the world’s leading scholarly gathering on Israel, bringing together researchers and educators from around […]
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Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies and Interim Director of the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, will deliver the keynote address this week at the distinguished international conference Year Zero: The Experience of 1945 – Endings, Transformations, and Renewal, held in Vienna. The lecture, entitled “When the Great Day Comes: Polish […]
On September 4, the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies will welcome Dr. James Loeffler, Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University and frequent contributor to The Atlantic. Dr. Loeffler is a leading scholar whose work bridges Jewish history, law, and human rights. His talk, “How Charlottesville Changed America: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and […]
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“Kehillah” is the Hebrew term for the organized Jewish community — a group with shared values, traditions and belonging. In Jewish civilization, community is a responsibility. Click to read the full article.
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Academic essay winner: Gavriella Cohen Winning submission: “Jewish Particularity and French Culpability in The Last of the Just” Gavriella explains the essay: My topic, developed in Dr. Zachmann’s class on Holocaust Memory in France, is André Schwarz-Bart’s remarkable post-war novel, The Last of the Just (1959). I dissect the novel’s use of textual structures and […]
Bruce Greenberg gives back in a big way, ensuring the rich histories of centuries-old Jewish communities live on.
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Join us on February 24 at 5:30 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora for this lecture by Jeremy Black.
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February 23–March 18, 2025
All events are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come first served basis.
Join us on February 3 at 5:30 p.m. in the Judaica Suite.
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Entries for awards should be submitted by April 25, 2025
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Research paper co-winner: Alex Boutin-Johnson Major: English and French major Winning submission: “Instruments of Alterity in the Dreyfus Affair” written for the class “The Dreyfus Affair” taught by Dr. Gayle Zachmann. Alexander explains the paper: “The Dreyfus Affair” was an incident at the turn of the 20th century involving allegations and imprisonment of a Jewish […]
Join the University of Florida’s Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies on October 21 as it visits South Florida to assess the effects of October 7 on the Jewish world, one year after the Hamas attacks. The featured speaker will be Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (2021).
During the 2024-25 academic year, Prof. Natalia Aleksiun (the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies in UF’s Shorstein Center) will hold the Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania. The Katz Center is one of the world’s most prestigious research centers in the field of Jewish studies.
September 30, 2 – 5 p.m. in the Smathers Library Judaica Suite
Dr. Or Honig is joining the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies as an Israel Institute Visiting Scholar. He will teach courses on Israel focusing on Israeli diplomacy and security concerns, and he will be with the center for the next three academic years. His courses will be cross-listed with Political Science.
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Professor Yaniv Feller, a professor of Judaism and Modern Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has published a new book titled Covenantal Thinking: Essays on the Philosophy and Theology of David Novak with the University of Toronto Press.
