Please introduce yourself. My name is Alexander Lowie. I graduated UF in 2024 with a PhD in Anthropology and was a Graduate Student Assistant for the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies. I am the Student Programming Coordinator for the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. I have a […]
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 […]
Entries for awards should be submitted by April 25, 2025
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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 […]
Blair Wales, UF Class of 2023 and University of Virginia School of Law Class of 2026, answers important questions about choosing a Jewish Studies major.
During my first UF advising appointment almost three years ago, I was given an ultimatum: add a minor or graduate early.
Harper Self, UF Class of 2023, Holocaust Studies Certificate, discusses her research on Spain and Greece’s Jews under the Nazis.
Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Writing Awards Announced
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Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Writing Awards Announced
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The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion announce three undergraduate awards for Excellence in Jewish Studies.
The Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion announce three undergraduate awards for Excellence in Jewish Studies.
Entries for awards should be submitted by May 5, 2021.
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