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Archaeologist Jodi Magness: Discoveries in Ancient Galilean Village of Huqoq

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

Since 2011, exciting excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee have been directed by famed archaeologist Jodi Magness, the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On December 10, Magness will come to Rutgers to share her team’s discoveries, including the […]

Robeson’s Jewish connection

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

Rutgers University’s Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life will present “Paul Robeson, ‘Negro-Jewish’ Unity, and the ‘Jewish People’s Movement’ in the 1940s: Legacy and Challenges” on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m. at Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick. Four leading historians will explore Robeson’s connections to the Jewish community, left-wing political movements, and […]

Paul Robeson “Negro-Jewish” Unity & the “Jewish People’s Movement” in the 1940s

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

Four leading historians will explore Paul Robeson’s connections to the Jewish community, left-wing political movements, and the Soviet Union in the1940s. Robeson, who graduated from Rutgers in 1919, was a standout student-athlete who became a world-renowned actor and activist. He is one of the university's most venerated alumni for his work in theater and film, […]

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Desert in the Promised Land: Nature, Settlement, and the Politics of Space

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

"Desert in the Promised Land," a new book by Prof. Yael Zerubavel, explores the multiple meanings of the desert as both a geographic region in Israel and a symbolic landscape in Zionist and Israeli culture. Zerubavel will discuss her book, which draws on literary, artistic, and folkloric sources to examine changing views of the desert […]

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Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews during World War II

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

During the Holocaust, Jews from across the Soviet Union told their personal stories through Yiddish songs that are now part of a Grammy-nominated recording in the world music category. Preeminent Yiddish singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko teams up with Professor Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto) to bring these long lost songs to life in an all-new concert […]

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Yiddish heroes

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

A concert and lecture program, “Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews during World War II,” will be offered at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers University’s Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick. The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program of Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for Jewish Studies will feature Psoy Korolenko, singer-songwriter; […]

The War Refugee Board and America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

America has long been criticized for failing to give safe harbor to the Jews of Europe during World War II. Join Dr. Rebecca Erbelding as she discusses her groundbreaking new book on the War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt late in the war to save the Jews that remained. A historian, curator, […]

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Saving Europe’s Jews

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

Dr. Rebecca Erbelding will deliver a lecture, “The War Refugee Board and America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe,” on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers University’s Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick. Erbelding, a historian, curator, and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, uncovered new archival materials that tell the […]

“Living in English, Writing in Hebrew: A Conversation with Ruby Namdar”

Rutgers University - Douglass Student Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ

Join Ruby Namdar, winner of Israel’s Sapir Prize in 2014, in conversation with Professor Nancy Sinkoff, academic director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, for a special program. Ruby Namdar's provocative book "The Ruined House" explores the enduring power of the ancient purification ritual of the High Priest […]

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