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.
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…
This article uses the Silver Palate shop and cookbooks to consider how older ethnic and religious models of hospitality were remade as a secular, cosmopolitan cuisine, and how…
