Robert Seltzer 2020-2021 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Unkosher: The Role of Organized Crime in the Kosher Food Trades, 1900-1920 During the era of the mass migration of Jews to the United States over the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the kosher food industry experienced unprecedented expansion. A key, hidden, and under-appreciated force behind this […]
Works by Mendelssohn and Bruch in coordination with a newly forged alliance with the Jewish Studies Program. Join via Zoom or YouTube Live. Please download the Zoom app before joining the event Access Hunter College's "Zoom Webinars Best Practices" Guide
Robert Seltzer 2020-2021 Lunch Lecture Series Presents: Concentration-Camp Literature: Gulag and Nazi Camps as Contexts for Each Other with Leona Toker Co-Sponsored by Russian and Slavic Studies at Hunter College Join us for a brief history of concentration camps and the literature written about them, followed by a discussion and comparison of Shalamov’s "An Individual […]
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 […]
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 […]
