01/25/2023 - The Program in Jewish Culture & Society is pleased to announce that Marie Jensen has been awarded the Spring 2023 Ronald H. Filler Jewish Studies scholarship. Jensen is from Grand Ridge, Illinois...
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11/18/2022 - The Program in Jewish Culture and Society-affiliated faculty member Brett Kaplan spoke at an event to mark the launch of her new book Rare Stuff on October 27th. The talk took place at the...
08/26/2022 - Michael Mayer, the award-winning director, is the Israel Studies Project visiting scholar in Fall 2022. Michael Mayer’s feature debut, Out in the Dark, had its world premiere at the Toronto...
08/25/2022 - The Program in Jewish Culture & Society is pleased to announce that Tamar Dallal has been awarded the Fall 2022 Ronald H. Filler Jewish Studies scholarship. Tamar is a senior in Engineering...
02/28/2022 - We want to share and endorse the statement issued by our colleagues in the Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Center and Slavic Languages and Literatures earlier this week. We join them in...
10/18/2021 - Jewish archives from central Illinois to be stored at University ...
06/03/2021 - Zionism: A Global History examines the history of the Zionist movement from a global perspective. The course is designed for...
06/01/2021 - AIS program can be found here. I am delighted to welcome...
05/18/2021 - Summer 2021 YISH 320: Lit Responses to the Holocaust In this film course we will be watching and discussing Holocaust Cinema...
04/16/2021 - Given the ongoing conditions of the pandemic, we are inviting students to apply for Summer 2021 funding to support participation in an international conference or enrollment in a virtual language...
04/02/2021 - Yossi Klein Halevi and Mohammad Darawshe, two internationally-recognized thinkers on navigating the deeply-held divisions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will speak during a live Zoom event...
03/05/2021 - Professor Rachel S. Harris has written an opinion piece in Ha'aretz (2-March-2021) about efforts to disqualify Ibtisam Mara’ana and prevent her from standing for election and the recent Supreme Court...
02/12/2021 - On Wednesday, February 10th, we joined with the Center for African Studies and Illini Hillel to co-sponsor a talk by Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, a Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community...
04/20/2020 - The Program in Jewish Culture & Society here at the University of Illinois is excited to announce yet another virtual event for our students and staff to stay engaged in learning and thought...
03/17/2020 - In accordance with the university policies and the advice of public health professionals, the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies ...
