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URL: https://events.uconn.edu/live/json/v2/events/response_fields/location,image/date_format/%25F%20%25j,%20%25Y/group/Judaic Studies/
If not explictly stated otherwise, start_date/today and end_date/6 months are implied in the URL.
Presenters: Jamie & Eli, the creators and stars of the award-winning Yiddish-ish web series YidLife Crisis, were in the fleisch! The boychiks from Montreal presented an evening of comedy, film and music reflecting their unique take on the modern Jewish experience. Event was in English.
Presenters: Prof. Jeffrey S. Gurock via Zoom led a fascinating discussion about Orthodox Jews and American Politics. He is the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University.
Presenters: A screening of Holding Liat and discussion with director Brandon Kramer. In the weeks after Liat’s kidnapping, her father Yehuda begins a mission to secure his daughter’s release while refusing to let her captivity be used to justify violence in Gaza. His efforts reveal rifts within the family, as each generation grapples with their fracturing emotional and political perspectives.
Date & Time: Thursday, November 5 at 4:00 p.m.
Location: Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center for Human Rights
Presenters: Co-authors Sebastian Wogenstein, Associate Professor at UConn, and Dieter Koller, of Tübingen, shared stories about the new translation of songs in their book Dos gezang fun vilner geto – Songs from the Vilna Ghetto. They told the story of these songs from the Holocaust that speak of pain and love, of resistance and survival. The concert featured songs from the Vilna Ghetto, which were performed by Zisl Slepovitch, accompanied by Inna Barmash, and Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin.
Date & Time: Monday, November 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: J. Louis von der Mehden Recital Hall, UConn Storrs
Presenters: Dr. Omar Mohammed, Director of Antisemitism Research Initiative at George Washington University, and David Collins, Senior Research Fellow of Program on Extremism at George Washington University
Date & Time: February 12, 2026 at 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Location: UConn Storrs, Homer Babbidge Library, Heritage Room and online via Zoom
Presenter: Roland Tec is a filmmaker, composer, and producer of plays, musicals, films, and opera. His parents were Holocaust Survivors who arrived in the U.S. in 1952.
Date & Time: February 19, 2026 at 5:30 to 7:00 PM
Location: UConn Stamford, Main Auditorium – Room 109 and via livestream
Presenter: Dr. Hasia Diner, Professor Emerita at the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and Director Emerita of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History.
Date & Time: March 11, 2026 at 12:30 to 1:45 PM
Location: The Dodd Center for Human Rights, Public Lounge
Presenter: Dr. Hasia Diner, Professor Emerita at the Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and Director Emerita of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History.
Presenter: Zeke Levine, PhD is a musicologist whose research focuses on Yiddish-American folk song, the American Folk Revival, and American improvised music.
Date & Time: March 26, 2026 at 5:30 to 7:00 PM
Location: UConn Stamford, Main Auditorium (Room 109) and via livestream
Presenter: Filmmaker and author Arnon Z. Shorr shared a multimedia journey exploring Jewish stories and his efforts, on the screen and on the page, to push past the stereotypes that have defined Jewish representation in popular entertainment.
Presenter: Jonathan Jacobson transcribed, translated, and annotated his mother’s early history: a captivating story of the uprooting of one immigrant family, surmounting countless challenges, and ultimately achieving their American dream
Date & Time: April 30, 2026 at 5:30 to 7:00 PM
Location: UConn Stamford, Main Auditorium (Room 109) and via livestream
Lunch-n-Learn: Higher Education in Israel Today and Study Abroad Opportunities
Presenter: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Date & Time: September 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Location: UConn Storrs, Dodd Center for Human Rights, Public Lounge
Jews and Christians in the First Centuries CE — It’s Complicated!
Presenter: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal and Yonatan Miller
Date & Time: September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Location: West Hartford, Mandell JCC
Antisemitism, An American Tradition
Presenter: Pam Nadell (Also celebration of the 125th anniversary of the American Jewish Year Book and UConn’s new Laboratory for the Study and Prevention of Global Antisemitism)
Date & Time: October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Location: West Hartford, Mandell JCC
999: The Forgotten GirlsFilm Screening and Discussion
Presenter: Heather Dune Macadam and Heather Elliott-Famularo
Date & Time: November 12, 2025 at 4:30 to 6:15 PM
Location: UConn Storrs, Dodd Center for Human Rights, Konover Auditorium
Illuminating Hanukkah: Lights, Latkes, and Cultural Identity in Holiday Movies
Presenter: Amy Weiss
Date & Time: December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Location: UConn Storrs, Dodd Center for Human Rights, Konover Auditorium
