Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

Join us on February 3 at 5:30 p.m. in the Judaica Suite.

Read more "Jews in the Red Army in World War II: A Talk by Oleg Budnitskii"

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).

Read more "One Year After October 7: What Have We Learned?"

Join us at the Hippodrome State Theater for our annual film festival

Read more "13th Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival, March 5-27, 2024"

Please join us on February 20 at 6:00 p.m. in the Keene Faculty Center for a talk with author Jeffrey Herf. Part of the Forum for Fairness in Discourse Series on Understanding the New Antisemitism. Made Possible by Audrey Adams and Jon Morris.

Read more "Three Faces of Antisemitism"

Join us on January 31 for a talk by Professor Samuel Freedman.

Read more "Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey’s Battles Against Antisemitism and Extremism in Mid-Century Middle America"

Join us on February 7 for a talk by Gil Hoffman.

Read more "Peace, Politics and Propaganda: An Insider’s Look at the Challenges Facing Israel on the Military, Media and Political Battlefields."

Join us on Monday, January 22 for a talk by Professor Deborah Dash Moore. Walkers in the City showcases the distinctive urban vision that working-class Jewish photographers produced on New York City’s streets and in public spaces in the middle decades of the 20th century.

Read more "Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York"

Join us on Nov. 7 for a talk featuring Jeffrey Greenberg, a UF alumnus and the American Jewish Committee’s Director of Campus Affairs, which studies and documents antisemitism on US campuses.

Read more "Antisemitism on American Campuses: Where Does it Come From, and Where is it Going?"

Join us for discussions between students and faculty at UF Hillel on Tuesday, October 17 at 4 p.m.

Read more "The Past and the Future of Social Protest: Lessons from Nazi Germany and Beyond"

Read more "Pizza Study Break for UF Undergrads October 23 at 12 p.m."

Oct. 2 and 3, the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the Jewish experience in Ukraine.

Read more "Ukraine and the Jews: an Interdisciplinary Conference"

Read more "“The American Jewish Experience: Short Presentations in Honor of Bud Shorstein” September 7, 2 PM Pugh Hall Ocora"

Join us on Wednesday, September 13th at 5:30 PM for a talk by Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

Read more "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine & East European Jews: What’s New? What’s Not?"

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.

Read more "The Current Crisis in Israel and US-Israeli Relations: A Talk by Walter Russell Mead"

A Holocaust survivor, Alina Margolis was a physician, a political refugee, and a public health pioneer. Join us on March 2 for a presentation by the author, Izabela Wagner!

Read more "From the Warsaw Ghetto to Human Rights Organizations: The Extraordinary Life of Alina Margolis"

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.

Read more "Universalizing the Holocaust: An International Conference"

Join us on Sunday, February 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the Harn Museum of Art for a keynote address by Doris Bergen, part of the conference ‘Universalizing the Holocaust,’ hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies.

Read more "It’s Been Universal All Along: The Holocaust’s Global Contexts — A Talk By Doris Bergen"

Join the Center for Jewish Studies on Monday, March 27 at 3 p.m. in the Keene Faculty Center 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.

Read more "A Conversation with Bestselling Author and Scholar Stephen Prothero"

Join us for this free talk by Michael Brenner on February 6! 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.

Read more "Munich 1923: Hitler’s Insurrection and the Rise of Antisemitism"