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Welcome, New Center Director Dr. Jessica Cooperman

Jessica CoopermanDr. Jessica Cooperman is very excited to join the University of Connecticut as Doris and Simon Konover Chair in Judaic Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life! In her formal role, she was Associate Professor and Chair of Religion Studies, as well as Director of Jewish Studies, at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. Her book, Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism(NYU Press), received an honorable mention for the Saul Viener Prize in American Jewish History. Her past project explored Passover celebrations as sites for negotiating Jewish identity and defining new relationships between Jews and Christians in post-war America. Future research will explore projects for promoting Jewish-Christian interfaith relations in the United States after World War II. Cooperman is also co-editor of the journal American Jewish History.

Patt is co-editor of “Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust”

Center Director Prof. Avinoam Patt is co-editor of the new Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust, together with Prof. Laura Hilton (Muskingum University).

The volume includes 20 chapters on the challenges and necessity of the teaching the Holocaust in the 21st century, including chapters devoted to teaching specific content, as well as chapters for teaching with specific sources, methods, and media. Among the contributors are UConn faculty member Prof. Alan Marcus (on teaching with film), Connecticut-based teacher Stuart Abrams (Avon High School, teaching with monuments and memorials), along with Avinoam Patt’s chapter on Jewish Displaced Persons.

More information can be found here:

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5767.htm

“Hilton and Patt’s wide-ranging volume combines authoritative surveys of key aspects of the Holocaust—from antisemitism to postwar justice—with practical guides of using survivor testimonies, photographs, museums, and more with students. This book will help anyone involved in teaching about a subject that remains as challenging as it is urgent.”
—Doris Bergen, author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

Registration for Sam Kassow | June 30, 2020, 7:00 PM

For last-minute login details, please email pamela.weathers@uconn.edu

Register for additional programs in this series!

June 16 at 4 pm (EST) | Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor and Director of Exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press [Register]

July 13 at 7 pm  (EST) | Nick Underwood, Assistant Professor of History and Berger-Neilsen Chair of Judaic Studies, The College of Idaho | "The World of Yiddish Theatre in History and Digital" [Register]

July 27 at 7 pm (EST) I Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus, Wesleyan University | “The Yiddish Song Today.” Cosponsored by the University of Hartford Greenberg Center [Register]

Questions? Please contact Avinoam Patt at avinoam.patt@uconn.edu

 

Registration for Eddy Portnoy | June 16, 2020, 4:00 PM

Register for additional programs in this series!

June 30 at 7 pm (EST) | Sam Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College | “Yiddish Culture in Wartime 1939-1945.” Cosponsored by Voices of Hope [Register]

July 13 at 7 pm  (EST) | Nick Underwood, Assistant Professor of History and Berger-Neilsen Chair of Judaic Studies, The College of Idaho | "The World of Yiddish Theatre in History and Digital" [Register]

July 27 at 7 pm (EST) I Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus, Wesleyan University | “The Yiddish Song Today.” Cosponsored by the University of Hartford Greenberg Center [Register]

Questions? Please contact Avinoam Patt at avinoam.patt@uconn.edu

 

Registration for Nick Underwood | July 13, 2020, 7:00 PM

Register for additional programs in this series!

June 16 at 4 pm (EST) | Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor and Director of Exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press [Register]

June 30 at 7 pm (EST) | Sam Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College | “Yiddish Culture in Wartime 1939-1945.” Cosponsored by Voices of Hope [Register]

July 27 at 7 pm (EST) I Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus, Wesleyan University | “The Yiddish Song Today.” Cosponsored by the University of Hartford Greenberg Center [Register]

Questions? Please contact Avinoam Patt at avinoam.patt@uconn.edu

 

Registration for Mark Slobin | July 27, 2020, 7:00 PM

Register for additional programs in this series!

June 16 at 4 pm (EST) | Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor and Director of Exhibitions at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research | Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press [Register]

June 30 at 7 pm (EST) | Sam Kassow, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College | “Yiddish Culture in Wartime 1939-1945.” Cosponsored by Voices of Hope [Register]

July 13 at 7 pm  (EST) | Nick Underwood, Assistant Professor of History and Berger-Neilsen Chair of Judaic Studies, The College of Idaho | "The World of Yiddish Theatre in History and Digital" [Register]

Questions? Please contact Avinoam Patt at avinoam.patt@uconn.edu

 

Postponed: “Separating out the Facts: The Origins of Christianity and the History of Judaism”

Stuart Miller*The road show originally scheduled for May 22, 2017 has been postponed.*

Road Show “Separating out the Facts: The Origins of Christianity and the History of Judaism” will be rescheduled and held at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Bridgeport, CT.

For more information about Road Show presentations, contact the Center at 860-486-2271 or email:  judaicstudies@uconn.edu.