Jewish Studies Calendar
Monday, April 7, 2025
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Join the University Library and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society for the screening of The Zone of Interest (2023), an acclaimed film directed by Jonathan Glazer. The film screening will be followed by a discussion led by Professor Rachelle Grossman (Comparative and World Literature).
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Between the late 1920s and mid-1960s, several Jewish social scientists and humanities scholars laid the theoretical groundwork for ethnic and immigration studies in the United States. The concepts these scholars developed--terms such as acculturation, urbanism, assimilation, and cultural pluralism--reshaped the understanding of America as a pluralist society of immigrants.
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This will be a conversation with Tobias Brinkmann about his recent book, Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe. It tells and contextualizes the stories of Jewish migrants and refugees from Eastern and Central Europe before and after the First World War.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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Through portraiture, testimony, archives and sound, iWitness presents a poignant and deeply moving narrative of the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) as told by its last surviving eyewitnesses.
