CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies

Schmooze-A-Palooza!

Schmooze-A-Palooza!

Please join us again this year for an evening featuring Hebrew songs of hope and inspiration.

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Embodied Judaism 2025: Jews of Color in the United States and Israel

Embodied Judaism 2025: Jews of Color in the United States and Israel

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. Save the date: February 11, 2025.

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Funny – You Don’t Look Jewish!

Funny – You Don’t Look Jewish!

Dr. Helen Kim of Whitman College will discuss the Asian American Jewish experience, focusing on racial and religious identity intersections in mixed-race families.

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Yom HaShoah: A Holocaust Memorial Public Reading of Names

Yom HaShoah: A Holocaust Memorial Public Reading of Names

Weather permitting, this reading will take place on Monday, May 6, 2024 at the Dalton Trumbo Fountain Court (in front of the UMC). We encourage the campus and broader communities to participate in the readings.

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Hebrew Schmooze-A-Palooza

Hebrew Schmooze-A-Palooza

On Wednesday, March 20, join us for an evening featuring Hebrew songs of peace and hope, performed by the CU Hebrew students, faculty, and larger community.

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Degrees of Order, Measures of Freedom: Modern German History and the Challenge of Postmodern Historiography

Degrees of Order, Measures of Freedom: Modern German History and the Challenge of Postmodern Historiography

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 5:00pm In-Person at Eaton Humanities Building, Room 1BN50 and streaming on Zoom. Please join us for this joint event, hosted by the Program in Jewish Studies, the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, and the Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington in cooperation …

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Holocaust Child Survivor Osi Sladek to Speak at CU Boulder

Holocaust Child Survivor Osi Sladek to Speak at CU Boulder

CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies and the Singer Chair in Jewish History will welcome Osi Sladek, a Holocaust child survivor from Slovakia who lives in Denver, to give testimony about his and his parent's suffering and survival in the Holocaust in the Slovak-Hungarian-Polish borderlands.

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‘A Vanished World’: Yom HaShoah Lecture 2023/5783 at Boulder JCC

David Shneer Memorial Conference April 7

The Nazi campaign of annihilation during WW II targeted not only Jewish lives but also Jewish cultural heritage and traditions. In her presentation, Prof. Dorota Glowacka will focus on Hitler’s deliberate destruction of Eastern European Jewish cultural and religious institutions, literature, and language.

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