Jewish Studies Events 2025–2026
The Program in Jewish Studies is delighted to host a variety of exciting events this 2025-2026academic year.
Events 2025-2026
May 3, 2026
Please join us in celebrating our 2026 graduates!
April 22, 2026
CU ý undergraduate and graduate students present on research assistantships, capstone projects, awarded fellowships for summer study, and other research and creative work in Jewish Studies.
March 25, 2026
Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent book, Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig (New York University Press, 2024), won a 2024 National Jewish Book Award
March 5, 2026
Annual live concert performed by the CU Hebrew students, faculty, and larger community.
Feb 4, 2026
In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jordanna Gessler, Chief Impact Officer of Holocaust Museum LA, explores the vital role museums as custodians of memory, truth, and human stories. This talk examines how museums collect, preserve, and interpret objects, not just as artifacts, but as living witnesses carrying layers of stories, and how culturally specific museums can engage audiences through the powerful narratives these objects hold.
Feb 4, 2026
Join us for pizza, drinks, and a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) panel discussion with Jordanna Gessler, Chief Impact Officer at the Holocaust Museum of LA, Megan Friedel, Assistant Professor of CU libraries, and Hope Saska, Director of the CU Art Museum
Oct 24, 2025
CU ý College of Music hosted a unique klezmer and Yiddish song residency featuring singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, accordionist and composer Dmitri Gaskin, violinist Zoë Aqua and cellist Raffi Boden—all leading musicians in the international Yiddish music scene.
Past Events 2024-2025
May 8, 2025
Congratulations to all of our 2025 graduates!
April 30, 2025
CU ý undergraduate and graduate students present on research assistantships, capstone projects, awarded fellowships for summer study, and other research and creative work in Jewish Studies.
April 24, 2025
A talk by Ofer Ashkenazi examining how German Jews used photography to document their lives under National Socialism.
April 24, 2025
A public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust
April 7, 2025
An evening dedicated to the legacy of DavidShneer, as a scholar, a mentor, and a builder of institutions.
April 2, 2025
A talk by Wadie Said about how American law views solidarity with Palestine as an extension of terrorism, and subsequently punishes this solidarity, even when such practices conflict with Constitutional rights.
March 18, 2025
A testimonial by Barbara Steinmetz (née Bandler), born in 1936 as the second of two children to an orthodox Jewish family in Gyor, Hungary.
March 12, 2025
Annual live concert performed by the CU Hebrew students, faculty, and larger community.
March 4, 2025
A Faculty & Graduate Student Research Colloquium,led by Dr. Laura Leibman. This event is part of the Program in Jewish Studies' 2025 Bender Visiting Scholar Program.
March 3, 2025
2025 Annual Bender Visiting Scholar Public Lecture byDr. Laura Arnold Leibman
February 11, 2025
This year's Embodied Judaism highlights the oral histories of Jews of Color that are being added to our archive through the Jews of Color: Histories and Futures project, made possible by funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.
February 6, 2025
A public talk by Doris Bergen (Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto). Organized by the Louis P. Singer Chair and part of CU ý's Black History Month events.
January 27, 2025
The 2025 annualHolocaust Remembrance Dayprogram public lecture, by Dr. Brown-Fleming.
November 13, 2024
Part of the Israel/Palestine Series, this talk by Dr. Weeam Hammoudah focused on the social mobilization around healthcare that began in Palestine in the late 1970s and 80s within the infrastructure ofSumud(steadfastness) and grew into the establishment of a Palestinian led primary healthcare system under Israeli occupation.
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