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.
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…
The establishment of the Deinard Chair in Jewish History at the University of Minnesota has ensured the continuity of research and teaching in the field of Jewish history at…
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…
