Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel
You are invited to attend the conference Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel held February 1-3 at UF. As diplomatic and military efforts to establish justice and peace in Palestine/Israel have […]
Naila and the Uprising
You are invited to attend the conference Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel held February 1-3 at UF. The kickoff event for this conference will be a free screening of this […]
Is American ‘Different?’ Antisemitism and the Belief in American Exceptionalism – Tony Michels
Join Dr. Tony Michels of the University of Wisconsin, Madison for this event, sponsored by Mitchell Hart, the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History. Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate […]
The Social Lives of Books from Print to Pixel
This roundtable and workshop on Digital Book History will feature four panelists: Joshua Teplitsky (SUNY Stony Brook), Footprints Rebecca Jefferson (UF), The Cairo Genizah Neil Weijer (UF), The Archaeology of […]
Prince of the Press – Joshua Teplitsky
Joshua Teplitsky is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Program in Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University. He specializes in the history of the Jews in Europe […]
Between Israel and the Caribbean Seaboard: The Worldwide Web of Jewish Moroccan Migrants
This lecture examines the process of Jewish emigration from Spanish-dominated northern Morocco, and points to the trans-regional, inter-personal, communal and institutional networks that jointly shaped the character and pace of […]
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“Muslim Converts or Crypto Jews? Sabbatean Communities in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic” with Dr. Cengiz Şişman
Sabbatai Sevi, a seventeen century Ottoman Jewish messianic claimant, led one of the largest religious movements in Jewish and Islamic history. When Ottoman authorities forced Sevi to convert to Islam […]