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.
Antisemitism, an American tradition, has once again reared its ugly head. Although scholars have long studied the topic, they have overlooked its gendered dimensions. Yet we know that antisemitism propelled Jewish women to take up their pens, picket toy stores, and walk out on their roommates. This lecture explores Jewish women’s encounters with this hatred and asks whether inserting women and gender will reshape the history of American antisemitism.
Read more "“It Can Happen Here Too”: Antisemitism, Gender, and the American Past"
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.
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.
Read more "Remembering the 93 Bais Yaakov Girls: Piety, Sexual Violence, and Holocaust Discourse"
Bernice Lerner is the author of All the Horrors of War, the remarkable story of her mother’s liberation from Bergen-Belsen.
Read more "The Ethics of Rescue: Stories Behind the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen"
Free adult online course at the University of Florida with five 90-minute sessions from January 20-February 17, 2022
Read more "What is Zionism? Exploring Israel’s Founding Thinkers"
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity, in writer-director Keith Thomas’ electrifying feature debut.
The often forgotten story of the coalition and friendship between the Jewish and African-American communities during the Civil Rights Movement.
Hasidim in the charming, affluent and largely Francophone Montreal borough of Outremont are currently 23% of Outremont’s population.
A young Jewish woman from Mexico City finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love with a non-Jewish man.
The film tells the stories of LG BT men and women who, for religious reasons, decided to marry against their own sexual orientation.
In a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young, but poor, lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller.
A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, the film is a romantic misadventure crossing a great many borders.
Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941.
Three decades after she arrived in Israel from the Russian city of Derbent, Sarah debates whether she should immigrate again to escape an abusive relationship.
Shortly after the death of his uncles, Didier Frenkel descends into the basement of their shared home and finds a treasure: an archive of animated films from their former home in Egypt starring Mish-Mish Effendi, the Arab equivalent of Mickey Mouse.
Only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, “Kosher Beach” is a secluded 100 meter strip with dedicated days for women and men.
This area in central Warsaw was once the center of Jewish life. When the war ended, the neighborhood was literally rebuilt from the rubble.
We will speak with award-winning novelist, essayist and podcast host Dara Horn about her new book of essays.
November 18 at 5:00 p.m.
Aside from being an American Jewish gadfly, a militant rabbi, and founder of the Jewish Defense League, Meir Kahane was an unrelenting critic of American Jewish liberalism.
Read more "Meir Kahane’s War Against Liberalism: Is It Still Relevant?"
This event is part of the “Contemporary Israel and Its Challenges: A Series of Conversations” series.
In 1924, two Jewish University of Chicago students, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, kidnapped and murdered fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks.
Read more "The Crime of the Century: Leopold, Loeb, and Jewish Gender"
September 9th, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Professor Bryan Cheyette will discuss three main elements of Israel Zangwill’s thought and political activism — Ghetto, Zion, Melting Pot — to understand the way that they work in relation to each other both imaginatively and politically.
September 21st, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Join us for a live presentation by Günther Jikeli of Indiana University on the contemporary global spike in antisemitism, its roots, its spread, and prospects for the future.
Read more "Antisemitism Today: Online, Offline, Where, and Why"
September 28th, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Has the two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict become an impossibility? Is a “new-state” solution all that is left?
October 31st, 2021 at 12:00 PM
In an era full of anecdotal evidence — which is, by nature, partial and often misleading — the need to bring evidence-based perspectives to democracy’s front lines has become paramount.
Read more "Israel at a Crossroads: Directions, Perceptions, Illusions, and Challenges"
Join us for a conversation with Anna Hájková, author of The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt.
Read more "The Last Ghetto: Understanding Theresienstadt – A Conversation with Anna Hájková"
