06/03/2020 - Studies the negative representations of Judaism and Jews from antiquity to the modern world.

05/15/2020 - We are excited to announce the course CWL 211 The Arab-Israeli Conflict now carries General Education credit in Literature and the Arts (Humanities and the Arts) and Western/Compa

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

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 of

03/05/2020 - Students, faculty, and community members in Urbana-Champaign and in the Chicago suburbs had the chance to learn more about 10-12C.

02/12/2020 - The Program in Jewish Culture & Society is extremely pleased to announce that Joshua Kravitz has been awarded the Spring 2020 Ronald H. Filler Jewish Studies scholarship.

01/31/2020 - The Association for Jewish Studies held their Annual Meetin

01/03/2020 - I hit the jackpot of students for the inaugural class of JS 209/CWL 209/ENGL 222, Jewish American and U.S.

11/09/2019 - Professor Brett A. Kaplan has published a review of Sayed Kashua's Track Changes (2020). The novel is the fourth in what the author views as a quartet that also includes Dancing Arabs (2002), Let it Be Morning (2004), and Second Person Singular (2010). 

11/09/2019 - The University of Illinois held its annual diversity breakfast on Friday, November 8th, at the iHotel.

10/23/2019 - "On October 16th, our class, Jewish American Literatures in Dialogue with U.S.

10/14/2019 - A warm welcome to Omri Drumlevich, who is our Israel Studies Project visitor for the Fall semester. Omri was born in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.

09/10/2019 - The Future of Trauma and Memory Studies Reading Group will hold its first meeting on Friday, September 13 from 1:30-3 PM in English Building Room 109.

09/09/2019 - Etgar Lefkovits was Jerusalem correspondent at the Jerusalem Post, and also worked at the Jerusalem bureau of the