Center for Jewish Studies Fall 2026 Newsletter: Meet the new Director, Associate Director, Deinard Chair, upcoming lectures, global foods symposium & more!
The Center for Jewish Studies is excited to announce that Dr. Marc Caplan will be joining the Center as Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies.
The Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that, as of August 24, 2026, Professor Ron Krebs of the Department of Political Science became the Center's Director. This…
Sienna (PhD '20, history) studies the history of Jewish communities in the early modern and modern Mediterranean world, and the history of the book as a material object.
History student Ryken Farr is using the archives to restore the legacies of Holocaust survivors. See how his research is giving people their stories back.
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.
The recent employment of charges of antisemitism as a means of advancing a broader political agenda seems to have come as a surprise to the right and the left alike.
The Sephardic Diaspora lays claim to a varied repertoire of delicious dishes. But what are the origins of this culinary heritage? And how have the foods that define Sephardic…
Before Gentleman’s Agreement became the Academy Award–winning postwar film starring Gregory Peck, it was the bestselling novel of Laura Z. Hobson, a Jewish American woman…
