2022-2023
Yiddish Paris: Creating a Jewish Nation Between Two World Wars
Monday, September 19, 2022
An Evening of Learning and Conversation with Dr. Nick Underwood
Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness, & Identity
Monday, November 14, 2022
A symposium bringing together scholars working on the significance of food for Jewish religious, cultural, national, and political identities, focusing on the United States and Israel/Palestine.
The German Resistance to Hitler and the Holocaust
Thursday, February 2, 2023
A public lecture by Alan E. Steinweis, in honor of the 2023 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Schmooze-A-Palooza
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
A music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public.
Hope and Grief in the Age of Climate Change: Queer Disability Politics and Ancient Jewish Story
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
2023 Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Lecture by Dr. Julia Watts Besler
Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program
Wednesday, April 19 & 20, 2023
The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present On Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: from East West Street to the Rohingya and Ukraine, a discussion with Philippe Sands.
2023 Undergraduate Research Showcase
Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU Boulder undergraduate students with opportunities to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects by asking new questions, producing new knowledge, and sharing their findings with diverse audiences. Students presented their work at a research showcase in April 2023.
2021-2022
Peak to Peak Webinar Concert Series: Contemporary Klezmer Music & Yiddish Song
A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Zoë Aqua and Adah Hetko and Professor Yonatan Malin
Monday, September 20, 2021
Peak to Peak Webinar Concert Series: Traditional Klezmer Music
A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Cookie Segelstien and Josh Horowitz and Professor Yonatan Malin
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Peak to Peak Webinar Concert Series: Middle Eastern/North African Jewish Poetic Songs (Piyyutim)—From Pulpit to Pop Chart
A Conversation/Performance with Dr. Galeet Dardashti and Professor Yonatan Malin
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
Israel/Palestine Series
Hilary Falb Kalisman, Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies at CU Boulder, in conversation with Ahmed Mansour & Dan Chyutin on the relationship between the United States, Israel, & Palestine.
Monday, October 18
2022 Holocaust Remembrance Day
Dr. Willa M. Johnson
Through an Artist's Eyes: The Dehumanization & Racialization of Jews & Political Dissidents During the Third Reich
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Sondra & Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Public Lecture
Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed
Evil Spirits, Wayward Stars, and Scribal Knowledge in Jewish Antiquity
Thursday, February 24, 2022
2022 Virtual Schmooze-A-Palooza
Each year, the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder presents a music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public. During the past two years of social distancing, we have gathered together virtually to explore the Hebrew language, build community, and make memories. This year, we came together online to sing the classic Israeli song “Ha-yeladim Koftzim” (by Roi Levy and Avraham Tal of Shotei Hanevu’ah).
The American Jewish Experience in Medicine Program
The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Medical Racism and the American Jewish Experience on April 25, 2022. The program included presentations and discussions with Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Barron H. Lerner, Gregg Drinkwater, PhD, Alan M. Kraut, PhD, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and Shanta M. Zimmer, MD.
Holocaust, Genocide & Contemporary Bioethics Program
The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Legacies of the Holocaust and Health Equity Today with Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, on April 26, 2022. The event was moderated by CBH Director, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, with opening remarks by Chancellor of the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Don Elliman. Dr. Maybank is the Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for the American Medical Association (AMA) where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading its Center for Health Equity. This was the keynote presentation for the 2022 Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program.
2022 Undergraduate Student Research Showcase
Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU Boulder undergraduate students with opportunities to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects by asking new questions, producing new knowledge, and sharing their findings with diverse audiences. Students presented their work at a research showcase in April 2022.
2020-2021
Eco-Kashrut: Food, Jews, and Justice
Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women and Gender Studies
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph – A Conversation With David Shneer
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Jewish Messianic Heresy and the Right to Privacy: Louis Brandeis and the Sabbatian Origins of an American Legal Doctrine
Nan Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies and English
Monday, September 14, 2020
Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate
Rhona Seidelman Schusterman Chair of Israel Studies and Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma
Thursday, October 22, 2020
"The End of the Tunnel is Dark": Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic Under Occupation
Weeam Hammoudeh Assistant Professor, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Peak to Peak Series
Exams in Extremis: Standardized Testing, Politics, and Crisis in the Middle East
Hilary Falb Kalisman, Assistant Professor of History and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies in the Program in Jewish Studies
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Peak to Peak Series
Klezmer Music as Jewish Dialogue and Jewish Discourse
Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies
Monday, December 14, 2020
2021 Sondra and Howard Bender Scholar
Judaism and the Black Experience
Bruce Haynes, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program
Then and Now: Courage, Complicity and Compromise
Rebecca Carter-Chand, PhD, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Susannah Sirkin, M.Ed, Physicians for Human Rights
In Partnership with CU Anschutz’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities
April 6, 2021
Peak to Peak Series
"Better Widowed than Married”: Conversa Women in Early Modern Europe
Rebecca Wartell, Instructor in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Rosenzweig for the Contemporary Moment: A (Zoom) Roundtable Celebration of Star of Redemption’s 100th Anniversary
Co-facilitators: Elias Sacks and Sarah Pessin
Panelists: Leora Batnitzky, Martin Kavka, Randi Raskhover, and Larisa Reznik
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2013-2014
Sondra D. Bender Visiting Scholar: Shaul Magid
Little Failure: Gary Shteyngart
Media Wars and the Invisible Holocaust: Natascha Drubek
Between Jewish Liturgy, Arab Music and Israeli Hebrew: Almog Behar
Embodied Judaism: The Sound of Ecstacy
2012-2013
Inauguration of the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Nathan Englander
The Eichmann Trial: Deborah Lipstadt
On the Wings of the Shekhinah: Rabbi Leah Novick
How the Ari Created a Myth and Transformed Judaism: Howard Schwartz
2011-2012
Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, Dr. Chava Weissler, and Rabbi Or Rose
When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone: Gal Beckerman
Augustine and the Jews: Paula Fredriksen
Yiddish Behind The Iron Curtain: Cantor Jalda Rebling
Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism: Jay Michaelson
2010-2011
Launch of the Brian E. Lebowitz Collection: Robert Atler
Speak Jewish?: Sarah Benor
Bar Kochba: Inventing Jewish Radicalism: Menachem Mor
Smashing the Idols: Rabbi Yisorel Wilhelm, Rabbi Victor Gross, Orly Halpern & Elissa Barrett
2009-2010
Radical Artists: Jewish Art in Diaspora: Carol Zemel
Untitled (L’Origine): Yael Kanerak
Obama, Sarah Silverman and Black-Jewish Relations: Daniel Itzkovitz
River Jordan: Myth of a Dividing Line: Rachel Havrelock
Paul Was Not a Christian: Pamela Eisenbaum
From Rebel to Rabbi: Matthew Hoffman
