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Student Spotlight: Molly Seghi

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Please introduce yourself.  My name is Molly Seghi. I’m a third year Journalism major and Jewish Studies minor from Hollywood, FL. What drew you to minor in Jewish Studies? I’m studying Jewish studies to expand my Jewish knowlege and learn from renowned professors passionate about their craft. What is something you are proud of? I […]

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Samuel Bud Shorstein Writing Awardees 2024-2025

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Academic essay winner: Gavriella Cohen Winning submission: “Jewish Particularity and French Culpability in The Last of the Just” Gavriella explains the essay: My topic, developed in Dr. Zachmann’s class on Holocaust Memory in France, is André Schwarz-Bart’s remarkable post-war novel, The Last of the Just (1959). I dissect the novel’s use of textual structures and […]

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Samuel Bud Shorstein Writing Awardees 2023-2024

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Research paper co-winner: Alex Boutin-Johnson Major: English and French major Winning submission: “Instruments of Alterity in the Dreyfus Affair” written for the class “The Dreyfus Affair” taught by Dr. Gayle Zachmann. Alexander explains the paper: “The Dreyfus Affair” was an incident at the turn of the 20th century involving allegations and imprisonment of a Jewish […]

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