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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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November 5, 2018

"Morocco and the Holocaust: The Story of Mohammed V, Protector of the Jews...

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King Mohammed V is commemorated in Morocco for having protected his Jewish subjects during World War II. What was the role of the Muslim ruler when the French colonial government of Morocco...

November 8, 2018

Postcards from Auschwitz: Tourism and Holocaust Remembrance

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Daniel Reynolds is Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages at Grinnell College, where he has taught since 1998 in the German Department. His book, Postcards from Auschwitz (NYU Press,...

November 15, 2018

"Am I a 'zhid'?": Anti-Semitism on the Soviet Home Front...

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This talk will examine the rise of anti-Semitism in the unoccupied territories of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. It will consider the role of population displacement in...

November 16, 2018

Constructing the Enemy: Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia in France and Germany

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Constructing the Enemy: Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia in France and Germany in the 20th and 21st Centuries CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Introduction Selim Rauer (French & Italian),...

February 27, 2019

“Medieval Jews and the Cairo Geniza in the Digital Age”

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Recent projects to digitize the contents of the Cairo Geniza—the largest cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered—have revolutionized research in the field. They have done so in two main...

March 13, 2019

"Orange Trees in Blue and White: The Beginnings and Politics of Zionist...

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People think of kibbutzim, socialist agricultural collectives, as the first Zionist agricultural settlements. But kibbutzim, first founded before World War I, were preceded in the late 19th...

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