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.
Senior Ryken Farr reflects on his experiences with hands-on learning as a history major with minors in Jewish studies, German, and museum & curatorial studies.
Bringing together intellectual history and political realities, Chaouat’s book offers a timely and challenging perspective on how antisemitism is understood today.
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.
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…
Vilified for their supposed usury, condemned by church leaders, and expelled by opportunistic rulers—such was the fate not only of medieval Europe’s Jewish communities, but…
”Latitude 33°,” Rotem Tamir’s exhibition at Mia November 21, 2026 through February 21, 2027, is named for the cartographic line running through Iraq, north Libya, and near…
Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche grew up within a notable Sephardi family in the tiny but flourishing Jewish community in Jaffa. Born in 1870, he became a prominent entrepreneur, a…
