Rebecca Wartell

Prof. Rebecca Wartell will give a talk on Conversos and The Inquisition on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 with Kavod Senior Life at the JCC. For information and registration, go to https://kavodseniorlife.org/signup/

Professor Rebecca Wartell will give a talk on Wednesday, January 17 at Congregation Bonai Shalom on Sephardic Jewish history and culture. Professor Wartell will discuss the recent novel Kantika by Elizabeth Graver. The book tells the saga of one family’s migration path across the Mediterranean from Istanbul to Barcelona and...

In response to public requests, CU Boulder experts will discuss range of topics in Arab-Israeli conflict at Wednesday forum, which is open to the community. A weekend cease-fire extension and the continuing release of hostages have raised some hopes, but the devastating war in the Middle East has also raised...

Rebecca Wartell will be presenting a work-in progress — entitled “The Exiled Bride: Jewish and Converse Widows in Early Modern Sephardic Society" — at a workshop hosted by the Mediterranean Studies Group. Dr. Wartell will be in conversation with faculty from UCCS and Boulder, including Brian A. Catlos, organizer of...

As we enter the 2022-2023 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder. We are very excited to welcome two new members to Jewish Studies, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan , the new Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in...

Rebecca Wartell will be speaking at the upcoming Mediterranean Seminar: Sacred Space(s). You can find details here.

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 .

Rebecca Wartell will be speaking at the annual meeting of Western Jewish Studies Association. Wartell will be speaking on a panel on “Jews in the Midwest and West” with her work on “Jew Outdoors: Post-War Jewish Recreation in the Rocky Mountains.”

Rebecca Wartell , Instructor in Jewish Studies, recently published an article in the Mediterranean Historical Review titled " Rabbis on refugees: theological responses to the treatment of converso migrants in the sixteenth-century Candia ." The article explores the treatment of converso refugees arriving in Crete in the mid-sixteenth century. Rabbinic...

As we enter the 2018-2019 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder. We welcome two new faculty members to Jewish Studies, Rebecca Wartell , Instructor in Jewish Studies, and Hilary Kalisman , Assistant Professor of History...