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…
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 this talk, Maurice Samuels will discuss some of the conceptual, political, and operational problems involved in studying antisemitism in our current moment.
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…
