How Charlottesville Changed America

Monday August 18, 2025

The 2017 White Supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia triggered a national debate about the limits of free speech. Less noticed at the time it also sparked a campus conflict over the relationship between antisemitism and racism that anticipated our contemporary political crisis. In this lecture historian James Loeffler will revisit the story of Charlottesville to […]

Songs of War and Peace

Thursday March 27, 2025

Join us for an evening of Israeli music that spans over 70 years, tracing the nation’s history through iconic songs of conflict and reconciliation.

On February 18th, at 5:30 PM, UF Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Florida Hillel will open the exhibition October Seventh: A Space of Anguish, Loss, Anger, Memory, and Sorrow.

Monday February 10, 2025

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

Monday February 3, 2025

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

One Year After October 7: What Have We Learned?

Monday October 14, 2024

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).

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

Wednesday February 21, 2024

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

Three Faces of Antisemitism

Tuesday February 13, 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.

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

Wednesday January 31, 2024

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

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

Wednesday January 31, 2024

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

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

Friday January 19, 2024

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.

Faculty New Book Event: Yaniv Feller’s The Jewish Imperial Imagination. Jan 17, 2024

Wednesday January 3, 2024

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

Wednesday November 1, 2023

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.

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

Tuesday October 10, 2023

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

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

Tuesday October 10, 2023

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

Monday August 28, 2023