Film Screening and book launch with Ferne Pearlstein, Robert Edwards, and Avinoam Patt Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Time: 7:00-9:00 pm Place: Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford The screening of The Last Laugh (2016, documentary film, 88 minutes) will be followed by a discussion and book launch with  film director Ferne Pearlstein […]

At Home in America? Part 2: A Three-Rabbi Panel Wednesday, January 15, 6:30 pm Mandell JCC Innovation Center Zachs Campus, 335 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117 Join Rabbis Tuvia Brander, Andi Fliegel, and James Rosen for a lively discussion about the past, present and future of Jewish life in America. How have the different […]

Award-winning Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari will present "Language, Longing, and Belonging,"  a discussion of her new, critically acclaimed memoir The Art of Leaving. Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020  Time: 4:30 pm Place: Trinity College, Mather Hall, Wean Terrace Rooms ABC, 300 Summit Street, Hartford The event is free and open to the public. The talk […]

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish - Join us for a book presentation with Josh Lambert and Ilan Stavans! Details Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 7:00 pm Place: Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford About the Event Prof. Josh Lambert (UMass Amherst) and Prof. Ilan Stavans (Amherst College) will discuss their […]

Please join us for the Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies, presented by Professor Berel Lang on "Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again." Details Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | 1:30-3:30 pm Place: Babbidge Library, Class of '47 Room, UConn Storrs This event is free and open to the public. A kosher […]

  On Monday, April 20, 2020, at 5:00 pm, world-renowned Holocaust expert Professor Emeritus Christopher Browning will present "Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony 75 Years After Liberation" for the UConn Center for Judaic Studies annual Academic Convocation on the Holocaust. The annual Holocaust remembrance lecture is made possible by the I. Martin and Janet M. […]

Please join us for a talk with NYU historian Dr. Marion Kaplan who will present the UConn Center for Judaic Studies Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies on Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal.  The event is free and open to the public. Attendance counts toward honors credit. Date: Wednesday, January […]

Please join us for a talk with NYU historian Dr. Marion Kaplan who will present the UConn Center for Judaic Studies Maria and Ishier Jacobson Lecture on Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. At this lecture, clothing donations will be accepted for UConn Stamford's biannual Professional Clothing Drive, which benefits UConn students in need […]

The Paradox of the Start-Up Nation A leadership briefing with Suzanne Patt Benvenisti Director General of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel Thursday, December 12 | 8 to 9 a.m. BlumShapiro | 29 S. Main Street, West Hartford What's the secret to the high-tech sector’s success... and what’s stopping the rest of […]

UConn Brain and Behavior in Tel Aviv is a summer study abroad program that provides students the opportunity to pursue their studies in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, PreMed, or PNB in Israel. The program is led by Dr. Etan Markus (UConn Psychology) together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University. Participants will take a UConn psychology class […]

On November 7, 2019, Professor Atina Grossmann, historian from the Cooper Union, presented "Shelter from the Holocaust: German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India" for the UConn Center for Judaic Studies annual Kristallnacht remembrance lecture. The event was made possible in part by the Center for Judaic Studies Frances and Irving Seliger Memorial Endowment Fund. […]

Christine Buckley from UConn Today interviewed Dr. Avinoam Patt, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, on the question of Jewish Humor. The phenomenon of many Jews being funny was explained by Patt through the position of the immigrant: As a coping strategy humor can bridge cultural differences and signal harmlessness […]

Talk by Prof. Johannes Heil: Patrologia Judaica? Exploring the pre-Rabbinic Western Jewish Textual Tradition Wednesday, November 20, 1:15-2:15 pm Humanitites Institute Conference Room 4th-Floor Babbidge Library This event is free and open to the public. Kosher lunch will be provided. About the talk: Professor Johannes Heil, President of the Hochschule für jüdische Studien Heidelberg (Academy […]

  Sondra Melzer: Reflections on the Work of Philip Roth November 21 12:30 pm MPR, UConn Stamford Philip Roth, 1933-2018, was an American novelist and short story writer. In her talk, Dr. Sondra Melzer will discuss Roth's focus on Jewish life throughout his storied career, the writings of which made him one of the most […]

Dr. Avinoam Patt to Lecture on Holocaust Remembrance in the Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series It is an honor to announce that our Director Avinoam Patt is invited to lecture at the Provost's Distinguished Speaker Series, which "provides an opportunity for our most recently-inducted Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chairs to share advances in […]

This new exhibition from the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford is on display at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center on the Storrs Campus between October 4 - 30, 2019. The exhibition is accessible Monday through Friday, between 8.30 am and 6 pm. About the exhibition: To celebrate the centennial anniversary of women's suffrage, […]

Shelter from the Holocaust: German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India Dr. Atina Grossmann Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:30 pm Dodd Center Konover Auditorium, Storrs About the Talk: This lecture examines the intensely ambivalent and paradoxical experiences, sensibilities, and emotions of bourgeois Jews who found refuge in the “Orient” of India and Iran after 1933. […]