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Regents vote to keep controversial names on UMN buildings

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The Board of Regents rejected a recommendation from outgoing president Eric Kaler to remove the names of four controversial leaders from buildings on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus.

Center for Jewish Studies Annual Magazine Fall 2018

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A year in review featuring undergraduate/graduate students, faculty accomplishments, scholarship winners and more.

Young girl and mother answer a trivia question at the Jewish Studies booth at the 2018 State Fair.

Center for Jewish Studies at the State Fair

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The Center for Jewish Studies partnered with Religious Studies and Islamic Studies to host an exhibit and learning opportunity in the U of M Building at the 2018 State Fair.

UMN to examine its 1930s-’40s discrimination against Jews, blacks

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The U of M confronts the sins of its past after a library exhibit highlights a troubling era of discrimination against African-American and Jewish students.

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September 12, 2019

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

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In her groundbreaking history, Pamela Nadell asks, “What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America”? Weaving together stories from the colonial era’s Grace Nathan to her great-...

October 24, 2019

Waking Henry Iliowizi, Or How Jews Have Something to Learn from the Dead

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Henry Iliowizi, one of the first rabbis of Minneapolis, was a Russian-Jewish writer who was sent to the U.S. in 1880 by a Hassidic organization in Paris and became the rabbi of Congregation...

December 2, 2019

Why did the PLO collect a Jewish Studies library?

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Some remember the PLO, in its founding years in the mid-1960s through the early-1980s, as a heroic group of freedom fighters; others recall a merciless group of terrorists. Largely...

February 27, 2020

Double Amnesia: Zionism and Human Rights in 1948 and Today

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2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human...

March 24, 2020

Judaism in the Qur'an

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This talk explores the relationship between the Prophet Muhammad's movement and West Arabian Jewish communities. The first part will briefly survey some pertinent information about the...

April 23, 2020

Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth

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In 2014 the Anti-Defamation League appealed to Facebook to take down a page titled “Jewish Ritual Murder.” In 2018, the shooter at a synagogue near San Diego, referred to Simon of Trent, a...

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