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: […]
Read more "Yaniv Feller Awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship"
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.
Read more "Professor Gordan Presents on Gentleman’s Agreement at the University of Rochester"
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 […]
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.
Read more "Raanan Rein Joins the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies"
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 […]
Read more "Shorstein Center’s Roy Holler Presents at International Conference on Israel Studies"
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 […]
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.
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.
Dr. Armin Langer, an associate at the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has published two recent articles on antisemitism and extremism. The first, “Antisemitic Myths on the Web Amidst Global Crises of the Early 2000s,” is part of a research study by the European Institute for Counter Terrorism and Conflict Prevention (EICTP) that covers […]
Read more "Dr. Armin Langer discusses the recent rise in antisemitism"
Professor Rachel Gordan, the Bud Shorstein Professor for American Jewish Culture and Society in the Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, has been honored with a fellowship at Harvard University for academic year 2024-25. It has been a fine year for Gordan. Her award-winning book ˆPostwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American appeared with Oxford University […]
Read more "Rachel Gordan wins Fellowship Year at Harvard for 2024-25"
The Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies is proud to announce the appearance of Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American by Oxford University Press.
Our own Rachel Gordan and our own Yaniv Feller have both, BOTH, won the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award of the Association for Jewish Studies, the premier academic organization in our field.
L-R: Yossi Turner (Israel Institute Visiting Professor), Yehoshua Ecker (Jews in Muslim Countries), Natalia Aleksiun (Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies), Roy Holler (Israel Studies, Hebrew Literature), Yaniv Feller (Modern Jewish Thought).
In 1948, when the cinematic version of her story, “Gentleman’s Agreement,” received the Oscar for best picture, Laura Z. Hobson was a 47-year-old, divorced, Jewish single mother living in Manhattan. The success of “Gentleman’s Agreement,” which was serialized in Cosmopolitan in 1946, published by Simon & Schuster in 1947 and produced as a film by […]
Read more "“When ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ made Jewish Oscars history”, an article by Rachel Gordon"
Thanks to a recent endowment, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida will become a world leader in researching and teaching one of history’s darkest moments. The Harry Rich Professorship in Holocaust Studies, created in 2020, will support a new faculty position in the field. The first chairholder will be NATALIA ALEKSIUN, a specialist in […]
Read more "Natalia Aleksiun to be first Harry Rich Professor of East European Holocaust Studies"
Mazel Tov to Rachel Gordan for the publication of her article, “The 1940s as the Decade of the Anti-Antisemitism Novel,” in the journal of Religion and American Culture published in June 2021. The abstract can be found here. A great way to start the new academic year!
Read more "The 1940s as the Decade of the Anti-Antisemitism Novel, an article by Rachel Gordon"
Oren Okhovat(opens in new tab), PhD candidate in the Department of History, won a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain. He will spend the 2019-2020 academic year in Seville conducting research in notarial records for his dissertation, “The Portuguese Jews and the Spanish Atlantic: Constructed Communities and Cultural Crossroads in the Seventeenth Century.”
Robert Kawashima has been appointed to an editorial committee, organized by the Society of Biblical Literature, under the auspices of the National Council of Churches, charged with updating the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the most widely used translation of the Bible in the English-speaking academic world.
Read more "Robert Kawashima has been appointed to an editorial committee"
Gayle Zachmann has been awarded a Florence Gould Foundation grant to continue her annual Paris research workshop — “Cultural Production in Nineteenth-Century France” — at the Université Paris-Diderot, Paris 7. The workshop will take place June 2020.
Read more "Gayle Zachmann has been awarded a Florence Gould Foundation"
On March 5, 2020 Dragan Kujundžić will screen his new film “Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music,” at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. In 2016, Sergei Shnurov and his group Leningrad released two now-famous video clips, “Exponat” and “V Pitere pit’”, which were […]
Read more "Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music"
Alice Freifeld is completing her book manuscript on displaced Hungarian Jewry at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as the 2019–2020 Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Invitational Scholar for the Study of Antisemitism.
Read more "Alice Freifeld is completing her book manuscript"
Tamir Sorek and Danyel Reiche have published the edited collection Sports, Society, and Politics in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019) — This interdisciplinary edited volume discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. Eleven chapters trace the historical institutionalization of sport and the role it has played in negotiating […]
Read more "New publication by Tamir Sorek and Danyel Reiche"
Rachel Gordan had a Shvidler post-doctoral fellowship from Fordham University’s Department of Jewish Studies and the New York Public Library in summer 2019. She presented at Columbia University’s conference “Antisemitism in the Americas” in May 2019, and at the “Jews in the Americas” symposium at the University of British Columbia in July 2019. Gordan participated in the […]
Tamir Sorek published Is There a Middle Eastern Sport? in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 51 (3) in 2019.
