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The Program in Jewish Culture & Society announces a call for applications for the Gendell/Shiner Family Fellowship and the Dara Goldman Memorial Scholarship.
Applicants must be degree-seeking graduate students in good academic standing enrolled at the University of Illinois. The Gendell/Shiner Family Fellowship provides a stipend of $14,000 and a waiver of tuition and some fees. Preference will be given to students at the ABD level in either Jewish...
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The Jewish Studies Podcast Project is out!
The Jewish Studies Podcast Project is out! We interview our faculty, visiting scholars, and guest lecturers about their new projects and recent books. Follow us on Spotify for a new episode every third Thursday of the month.The first episode is dedicated to Dara Goldman, May Her Memory Be a...
New Chapter: Cooperation with the Nevzlin Center
The Program in Jewish Culture and Society has started a promising collaboration with the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. We became co-organizers of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry that will...
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Midwest Yiddishfest
From November 14-16, Champaign-Urbana was host to the Midwest Yiddishfest, a three-day Yiddish culture and arts festival co-sponsored by the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the C-U Jewish Federation. The program featured nine public programs that covered a broad array of subjects,...
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An Evening with Ayelet Tsabari, Author of Songs for the Brokenhearted
On October 28th, Israeli-Canadian author Ayelet Tsabari visited campus as part of her book tour for her debut novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted (2024). The event was supported by the Einhorn Fund, the Israel Studies Project, and the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity. The novel...
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Write Like a Man: Ronnie Grinberg on Secular Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals
On September 8th, the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies welcomed Ronnie Grinberg, associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals (...
Spring 2026 Courses
The following courses are pre-approved for the Jewish Studies major and minor.
Fall 2025 Courses
The following courses are pre-approved for the Jewish Studies major and minor.
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Art History Graduate Student Alexandra Lyon on Studying Yiddish in Warsaw
This summer, I attended the 23rd International Summer Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture at the Centrum Kultury Jidysz in Warsaw, Poland. I was part of the level two cohort and each day we spent four hours studying Yiddish. Our daily Yiddish lessons included a review of concepts like questions...
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Malia Sayad
Malia Sayad graduated from Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in political science with a concentration in International Relations. During her junior year, Malia was dismayed to see a sharp rise...
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