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Rachel Gordan has published a chapter in the new Oxford handbook of Judaism and Film, titled: “Gentleman’s Agreement (1947): Combating Antisemitism, Erasing Judaism.” This chapter examines the Academy Award-winning 1947 film “Gentleman’s Agreement”, analyzing its paradoxical approach to combating antisemitism while largely avoiding Jewish characters, culture, and religion. Based on a novel by Laura Z. Hobson, […]

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The work of Shorstein Center professor Dragan Kujundžić has recently been published in two anthologies. His chapter “Liquification and Liquidation of the Museum in Sokurov and Shnurov” has been reprinted and published in Russian in The Russian Chronotope, An Anthology, edited by the faculty of Belgrade, Serbia and published in St. Petersburg. “Archigraphia: On the […]

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A new article by Professor Raanan Rein, “Eliminate Antisemitism from Spanish School Texts. A Campaign of the Jewish-Christian Friendship Association”, was published in Germany in an edited volume titled Antisemitismusprävention und jüdische Kultur im Schulunterricht (Antisemitism Prevention and Jewish Culture in School Education).

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Professors Rachel Gordan and Yaniv Feller were recently selected as finalists for the prestigious 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards. Gordan’s book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American (Oxford University Press, 2024), was recognized in the category of Modern Jewish History & Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, & Oceania. Feller’s book, The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish […]

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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 […]

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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.

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