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In this lecture, Sandra Fox explains how a sense of cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage for Jewish children across the country.

Presented by: Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. And Michael Casper, PhD., University of California.

Presented by Yasha Klots, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hunter College.

Presented by Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a '22-'23 inaugural fellow at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Center for Antisemitism Research.

Presented by Rachel Slutsky, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity, Seton Hall University.

Presented by Sarah Benor, Vice Provost and Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College.

Colonial New York’s Emergence as a Center of North American Jewish Commercial and Communal Activity.

Presented by Allison Schachter, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, English, and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University.

Hunter College welcomed Nathan Abrams, professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, for a discussion about the legendary director Stanley Kubrick.

The kashrut mission was illustrative of the diversity of American Judaism of the WW II era.

Pamela Nadell and Leah Garrett discuss the remarkable Jewish alumnae of Hunter College.

Benjamin Balint, author of Kafka's Last Trial, in conversation with Lisa Anderson, professor and chair of the German Department at Hunter College.

This discussion considered how researching Sophie Halaby helped Professor Laura Schor reframe her understanding of Jerusalem.

This talk examined the responses of German Jewish WWI veterans to the state-sponsored violence the Nazis unleashed against Jews on 9 November, 1938.

Mikhal Dekel discussed her decade-long archival research and global travel to retrace the 13,000-mile route of the Tehran children of WWII.

Leah Garrett chronicles the incredible story of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive WWII special-forces unit.

In this installment of the Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series, professor Samuel Torjman Thomas discusses Klezmerica, a new Jewish music genre.

Hunter College's Jewish Studies Center presents Talia Lavin, author of "Culture Warlords" in conversation with Jessie Daniels.

For this installment of the Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series, Professor Adam Seipp discussed the course and aftermath of the Dachau death marches.

Author and Stanford University Professor Steven Zipperman discusses his new biographical study on Philip Roth with Hunter's Leah Garrett.

Professor Emerita Leona Toker discussed the history of concentration camps and the literature written about them.

This lecture compared the role of organized crime in the kosher poultry industry and the trade in Jewish baked goods.

Items retained in hiding had a practical role to play, helped keeping Jews warm and fed, but were also sites of loving memory, longing or anxiety.

This presentation highlights the positions of Maimonides and of other, lesser-known figures.