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Samuel L. Boyd has recently published a new article in the Conversation on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. You can find it here .

Hilary Falb Kalisman's new book, Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2022), is featured in Jadaliyya, a Middle Eastern Studies online magazine. You can read Prof. Kalisman's interview here .

On October 21, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan will moderate a roundtable for the "Challenging Conversations" series, hosted by North Carolina German Studies. The title of the event is " Historikerstreit 2.0.”? The German Debate about the Holocaust, Colonialism & Genocide. For an overview of the program and a link to register,...

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...

Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, has published a new textbook and companion sourcebook, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle . Learn more about these incredible resources here: http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/the-sea-in-the-middle

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences at Appalachian State: a symposium for educators on film and photography during the Holocaust, and an academic conference including panels on Yizker books, Yiddish women writers and the Shoah, children’s Holocaust literature, and teaching Holocaust studies. As part of these...

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...

Gregg Drinkwater has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Association for Jewish Studies’s new Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants, which will support his project "Prelude to Pinkwashing: Homonationalism, Diaspora, and the Gay Jewish Embrace of Israel.”

Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one. Samira Mehta, CU expert on religion, gender and sexuality, shares on The Conversation. Read the June 13th article here . Samira Mehta and Lauren Maclvor Thompson discuss how the Supreme Court’s abortion decision is based on...

Director Elias Sacks' review of Randi Rashkover's book "Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem” has been published in Modern Theology . You can access the review here.