Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life

Website https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/

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  • Bloustein Memorial Lecture

    Bloustein Lecture – Antisemitism in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights

    Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Hubert Humphrey was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 and, in just three years, transformed it from being nationally notorious for its antisemitism and anti-Black racism to being nationally acclaimed for its concrete progress on civil rights. How Humphrey accomplished what he did is both dramatic as a part of history and instructive amid the […]

  • Mystical Zionism's Surprising Origins: Rav Kook's Early Decades

    Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life–Mystical Zionism’s Surprising Origins: Rav Kook’s Early Decades

    Virtual

    Presented by Yehudah Mirsky, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University Rav (Rabbi) Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the Land of Israel, an important theologian, a foundational thinker of religious Zionism, and the Zionist movement's most influential and controversial rabbinic advocate. Prof. Yehuda Mirsky (Brandeis University) will examine […]

  • Not Quite White in Fiction and Film: Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement and Nella Larsen's Passing

    Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life–Not Quite White in Fiction and Film: Laura Z. Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement and Nella Larsen’s Passing

    Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Gentleman’s Agreement and Passing are critically-acclaimed novels on racial and ethnic passing that have also been adapted for the screen. These works explore how anti-Black racism and antisemitism have shaped the integration of Blacks and Jews into White Christian American society. A panel will explore both novels as well as their adaptations for the screen. […]

  • Jews by Nature: Summer Camp, Youth, and American Jewish Culture

    Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life–Jews by Nature: Summer Camp, Youth, and American Jewish Culture

    Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Presented by Sandra Fox, Goldstein-Goren Visiting Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, NYU Fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life in the decades after the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders hoped to preserve authentic Jewish culture through residential summer camps for Jewish youth. Prof. Sandra Fox (New York University) will examine how […]

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    Bildner Center: Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum

    Virtual

    Jeffrey Shandler, Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, will discuss his new book, Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum (Indiana University Press, 2024). Shandler tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate the Jewish cultures of Eastern Europe destroyed […]

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    Bildner Center: Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy

    Douglass Student Center 100 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program, funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman Jonathan Marc Gribetz, Professor of Near Eastern studies and Judaic studies at Princeton University, will speak about his new book on the history of the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, from its establishment in 1965 until its expulsion from Lebanon in 1983. Gribetz examines […]

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    Bildner Center: One Year after October 7: A Conversation with Miriam Herschlag

    Virtual

    The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture Join a discussion between Miriam Herschlag, opinion and blogs editor for The Times of Israel, and Nancy Sinkoff, the Bildner Center’s academic director, one year after the October 7 attack on Israel. Raised in New Jersey, Herschlag has been based in Tel Aviv for decades, working as a […]

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    Bildner Center: The 25th Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, November 7–21

    Regal Cinema Commerce Center 2399 US-1, North Brunswick, United States

    The The 25th Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival will feature fourteen thought-provoking and entertaining films, dynamic discussions with filmmakers and special guests, and numerous New Jersey premieres on dance, music, the LGBTQ+ experience, American Jewish history, and Israeli society. Twelve films will be screened at the Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick (November 7–17), and […]

  • Programming by the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life

    Bildner Center: The 25th Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, November 7–21, Virtual Events

    Virtual

    The The 25th Annual Rutgers Jewish Film Festival will feature fourteen thought-provoking and entertaining films, dynamic discussions with filmmakers and special guests, and numerous New Jersey premieres on dance, music, the LGBTQ+ experience, American Jewish history, and Israeli society. Twelve films will be screened at the Regal Cinema Commerce Center, North Brunswick (November 7–17), and […]