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Samira Mehta has just published a new article, “Asian American Jews, Race, and Religious Identity,” in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion . You can access it here: https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfab058 .

Upcoming Events for 2021 - 2022 Israel/Palestine Film Series - Coming in October The Promised Lands? A Film Series on Israel/Palestine and the United States Spring Events - 2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Speaker: Dr. Willa Johnson (University of Mississippi), author of Through An Artist’s Eyes: The Dehumanization and Racialization...

Rebecca Wartell has just published a review of the recent book Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century in the Mediterranean Historical Review. You can find the review here .

Hilary Falb Kalisman was interviewed on Arirang TV, which is a South Korean English-language television network. She spoke on their Global Insight Program with Professor Avi Shlaim, Emeritus from Oxford, and you can find the segment here:

Professor Samira Mehta is featured in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency article on May 13, 2021 Read the article here

Professor Hilary Kalisman, Assistant Professor of History and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies in the Program in Jewish Studies article, A World of Tomorrow: Diaspora Intellectuals and Liberal Thought in the 1950s was published on April 9, 2021 in Journal of Palestine Studies. You can access the article here.

The Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder mourns the horrific killing of ten people at a King Sooper’s in our own community of Boulder on Monday, March 22, 2021. The victims were senselessly killed as they were going about their daily lives in a supermarket that...

The Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder mourns the horrific killing of eight people in Atlanta on Wednesday, March 16, 2021, including six Asian and Asian American women. We recognize these murders both as unspeakable tragedies for the victims and their families, and as highlighting the...

Nan Goodman, Professor, English and Jewish Studies and Editor in Chief, English Language Notes, recently published the following: “The Jewish Apostate and the American Expatriate: Leave-Taking in the Early American Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic , 41.1, 69-86, 2021 She also contributed this short piece, “Jewish Apostasy and American...

Professor Beverly Weber (University of Colorado Boulder) has been appointed Co-Editor of Feminist German Studies for a three-year term starting in January 2022. Beverly will be joining Alexandra Hill as FGS Co-Editor at the conclusion of Co-Editor Hester Baer’s term. Beverly comes to the position with a strong record of...