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Center for Jewish Studies Annual Magazine Fall 2019

Regents vote to keep controversial names on UMN buildings

Center for Jewish Studies Annual Magazine Fall 2018

Center for Jewish Studies at the State Fair

UMN to examine its 1930s-’40s discrimination against Jews, blacks

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October 24, 2019

Waking Henry Iliowizi, Or How Jews Have Something to Learn from the Dead

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Henry Iliowizi, one of the first rabbis of Minneapolis, was a Russian-Jewish writer who was sent to the U.S. in 1880 by a Hassidic organization in Paris and became the rabbi of Congregation...

November 7, 2019

Piercing the Silence: Holocaust Memories and Lessons in Concert

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Join us for the Kristallnacht commemorative event with a performance by Janet Horvath, former associate principal cellist for the Minnesota Orchestra. During the 30-minute multi-media...

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