Renana Schneller is retiring from her role as senior lecturer and director of language instruction (DLI) for the Modern Hebrew language program at the end of this semester.
Congratulations to Lydia Belateche (French & Italian) and Charles McNamara (Classical & Near Eastern Religions & Cultures), CLA's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Awardees…
In his 2026 book, Antisemitisms: A History of Jew-Hating, Sander L. Gilman summarizes how the hatred of Jews came to be used as a political cudgel by non-Jews and Jews alike.
Vilified for their supposed usury, condemned by church leaders, and expelled by opportunistic rulers—such was the fate not only of medieval Europe’s Jewish communities, but…