Professor of Jewish Studies at Stanford University Steven J. Zipperstein, author of "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" (Liveright/WW Norton, 2018), has just started writing a biographical study of Philip Roth. Roth is one of the world's most highly regarded and awarded American writers of his generation, if not one of the most controversial […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: "What Did You Do to These People?": History, Memory, and the Last Dachau Death March, 1945-1995 In the final days of April 1945, guards at the Dachau Main Camp forced nearly 7,000 prisoners onto the roads of southern Bavaria, headed for the Alps as American troops closed in. […]
The Jewish Studies Center at Hunter College presents: Talia Lavin, Author of Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy in Conversation with Jessie Daniels Co-Sponsored by the departments of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies and Political Science Talia Lavin is a freelance writer focusing on the […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: What Can the New York Syrian Community Teach Us About Sephardim in America? Cohosted with Hunter Hillel Sephardic Jews who immigrated to America from Muslim-majority countries are woefully understudied in the scholarship of American Jews. In this talk, Dr. Mijal Bitton will share findings from her research on the […]
This Event Has Been Cancelled Join us for a special evening with writer and Distinguished Lecturer Colum McCann and Director of the Jewish Studies Center at Hunter College, Leah Garrett, as they discuss McCann’s novel, Apeirogon, the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. The National Jewish Book Awards were established by Jewish Book Council […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Klezmerica: Jewish Invention and Repackaging of the Instrumental Jam Live Performance and Lecture Klezmer music, an instrumental genre rooted in an Eastern European Jewish cultural milieu deeply stylized by connections with non-Jewish co-ethnics, has been replanted and is thriving in the rich soil of America. This lecture-performance discusses […]
Please join us for a live Zoom discussion of the new book X TROOP: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett. In this riveting history, Garrett chronicles the incredible—and largely untold—story of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive WWII special-forces unit. The author will be in conversation with Hunter College history professor and author Benjamin […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Tehran Children: How a Decade Long Search in My Father's Footsteps Became "One of the Greatest Untold Stories of the Second World War" Presented by: Mikhal Dekel It is a largely unknown fact most Polish Jews who escaped Nazi extermination - nearly a quarter-million - survived in Uzbekistan, […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: “I Am Now at War Again” Jewish World War I Veterans and Kristallnacht Presented by: Michael Geheran This talk examines the responses of German Jewish World War I veterans to the state-sponsored violence the Nazis unleashed against Jews on 9 November 1938. Like other victims of the Pogrom, […]
Robert Seltzer 2021-2022 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist’s Life Presented by: Laura S. Schor This talk will focus on the life and art of the […]
