Center for Jewish Studies
Remembrance Event Reimagines How to Tell a Vital Story
How do you keep alive the memory of something as consequential as the Holocaust when almost everyone with firsthand knowledge of it is gone? This was the challenge that a panel of experts which included scholars, journalists like Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent, PBS NewsHour, and a Holocaust survivor and educator—addressed at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus on Jan. 26.
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The future of Jewish studies is unfolding at Fordham University, where the study of Jewish history, culture, and traditions is nourished by a diversity of programs and courses, the University’s Catholic and Jesuit identity, and the incomparable resources available in New York City
The Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham has been phenomenal—for my scholarship, for scholarly community, and for a feeling of unlimited possibilities.
Because of its partnerships, our intellectual conversations and our publications have expanded exponentially. The center has transformed my experience at Fordham, as an anthropologist and a Jewish studies scholar.
—Ayala Fader, Ph.D., professor of anthropology, Fordham University
University Unveils the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room
“I was a poor Jewish kid from Liberty, New York, and Fordham provided financial aid that allowed me to attend college,” said University Trustee Henry Miller, FCHR '68, at the opening of the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room named in honor of the donor's generousity and commitment to the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, often translated as “repair the world."
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Center for Jewish Studies Launches Lecture Series and Fellowship Program to Help Ukrainian Scholars
Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies co-hosted a virtual lecture series that discussed how the current crisis is affecting academia and is co-sponsoring a fellowship program for Ukrainian scholars. The center is collaborating with three organizations: the American Academy for Jewish Research, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, and the Lviv Center for Urban History in Ukraine.
Read moreJewish Studies before Jewish Studies @Fordham: Interview with Marc Yunis about his father Al Yunis
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Jewish Studies before Jewish Studies @Fordham: Interview with Emilie Amar-Zifkin
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Jewish Studies before Jewish Studies @Fordham: Interview with Professors Jason Morris and Karina Martin Hogan
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Jewish Studies before Jewish Studies @Fordham: Interview with Professor Anne Hoffman
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