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 […]
The FBI, Jews and Muslims: A History of Suspicion – Steven Weitzman
Steven Weitzman is Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced […]
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The Wandering Chess Player: Chess, Traveling, and the Jewish Condition – Francesc Morales
In 1941, a series of articles entitled “Jewish and Aryan Chess” appeared under the name of world-chess champion, Alexander Alekhine in the journal Die Deutsche Zeitung in den Niederlanden. Alekhine’s […]
Evolve or Die: Redefining Jewish Literature for the 21st Century – Myla Goldberg
Bestselling novelist, winner of the Borders New Voices Prize, a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award, the NYPL Young Lions award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover award, and recipient […]
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The Holocaust, the POLIN Museum, and the Politics of the Past in Poland – Dariusz Stola
Professor Dariusz Stola (Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences) will present this lecture. He was director of the POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish […]
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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 […]