Ryken Farr, who is also minoring in German and Museum & Curatorial Studies, traveled to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts in Summer 2024
The University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to present its 22nd Annual Community Lecture Series, hosted by the Minnesota JCC, in cooperation with…
The University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to present its 21st Annual Community Lecture Series, in cooperation with synagogues and other sponsoring…
This talk explores questions about Jewish identity through ethnographic research with Lemba people, a group of Black South Africans who in the 1980s and 1990s participated in…
Jews in America have routinely, even reflexively, turned to humor in navigating their identity. This talk explores how Jewish comedians have done so on stage, screen, and in…
Jews of color are much in the Jewish news. We hear about how there are a lot of Jews of color—more than we knew! We hear about how that is wrong—there are not so many Jews of…
In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was falsely accused of selling military secrets to Germany. After a hasty court martial and humiliating…
In times of social upheaval, how do observant Jewish communities decide who’s in and who’s out? What happens when rules of belonging are challenged by marginalized groups of…