Recent Publishing by Professor Raanan Rein

Wednesday June 3, 2026

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 […]

Professors Gordan and Feller Selected As Finalists For the 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards

Tuesday June 2, 2026

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 […]

New article written by Professor Rein, “Eliminate Antisemitism from Spanish School Texts”

Tuesday June 2, 2026

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).

Professor Dragan Kujundžić Work Published in Two Anthologies

Monday June 1, 2026

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 […]

Rachel Gordan contributes new chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Film

Monday June 1, 2026

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, […]

New Volume Jewish Latin America

Monday May 4, 2026

New Volume Jewish Latin America

Tuesday December 16, 2025

The evolution of Passover Haggadahs and their art

Sunday April 21, 2024

An essay from Rebecca JW Jefferson, Curator, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened

Tuesday February 27, 2024

An essay from Rachel Gordan, Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society.

South African Lawfare at The Hague

Wednesday January 17, 2024

An essay from Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies.

Holocaust Historians, the Genocide Charge, and Gaza

Thursday November 23, 2023

An essay from Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies.

Teaching and Learning at the UF Price Library of Judaica

Sunday February 27, 2022

An essay from Rebecca JW Jefferson, Curator, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

What a Tennessee School Board and Whoopi Goldberg Have in Common

Saturday February 5, 2022

An essay from Norman JW Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies.

Herman Wouk, the legendary author who brought Judaism into the mainstream

Friday May 17, 2019

An essay from Rachel Gordan, Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society.

They Warned Her Not to Write About Anti-Semitism

Tuesday August 14, 2018

An essay from Rachel Gordan, Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture and Society.