Jewish Studies in the Spotlight

Congratulations to Professor Hilary Falb Kalisman! Her book, Teachers As Statebuilders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East , has received the History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award for 2022!

Berghahn, New York, just published an up-dated paperback edition of Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's and Wolf Gruner (USC)'s 2020 co-edited collection " Resisting Persecution: Jews and their Petitions during the Holocaust ". In her assessment, Marion Kaplan (New York University) stressed that “ in exploring how persecuted Jews petitioned Nazi officials—and,...

A new University of Colorado Boulder online language class is aiming to preserve an endangered language and create access to an important aspect of culture and identity. Beginning Tibetan is the result of the work of Tenzin Tsepak, a teaching professor of Tibetan in the CAS, and Maggie Rosenau, an...

Samira Mehta's book The Racism of People Who Love You is on the Jewish Women’s Archive Book List Picks for the 2023-2024 year. Learn more here .

Samira Mehta's book was featured this month in CU's Arts & Sciences Magazine. You can read the article here .

Brian Catlos recieved the 2023 ASCEND award, which recognizes faculty, staff, and students for their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion. Catlos was selected as Faculty Awardee for his work on Mediterranean Studies and with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group (since 2011) and the Mediterranean Seminar , both of which...

Samira Mehta is mentioned in an article published by AP Business News about abortion rights. Read the article here .

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan published a new co-edited book this summer, titled Polizei und Holocaust: Eine Generation nach Christopher Brownings Ordinary Men . Read an English translation of the summary below: How was the Holocaust possible? What made "ordinary men" become mass murderers? The historical analysis of democratic decay can be...

The University Libraries and Program in Jewish Studies announce a renaming and new direction for Jewish collections to now focus on more recent innovative religious, cultural and social developments among American Jews and Judaism. The name of the collection will be changed to Innovations in Jewish Life (IJL) and it...

The tree of life—a powerful image in Judaism for thousands of years—signifies more than immortality Jurors recently delivered a guilty verdict for the gunman who killed 11 worshippers in Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue—the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Tree of Life has almost become shorthand for the tragedy,...