Dr. 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.
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Professor Avinoam Patt lectured at US Military Academy West Point
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.”
Registration for Sam Kassow | June 30, 2020, 7:00 PM
Registration for Eddy Portnoy | June 16, 2020, 4:00 PM
Registration for Nick Underwood | July 13, 2020, 7:00 PM
Registration for Mark Slobin | July 27, 2020, 7:00 PM
Postponed: “Separating out the Facts: The Origins of Christianity and the History of Judaism”
*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.