Schmooze-a-palooza has gracefully overcome the obstacle of COVID-19 and continues to offer students and audiences a performance they will never forget.

Join Cookie Segelstein and Josh Horowitz, who will demonstrate and talk about the styles, historical curiosities and techniques of traditional klezmer music.

Join Zoë Aqua and Adah Hetko for a conversation/performance centered around the contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song scene. Zoë and Adah will talk about their current projects, what inspires them, and how the histories of klezmer music and Yiddish song have influenced their work.

Join Zoë Aqua and Adah Hetko for a conversation/performance centered around the contemporary klezmer and Yiddish song scene. Zoë and Adah will talk about their current projects, what inspires them, and how the histories of klezmer music and Yiddish song have influenced their work.

The mass forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews before 1492 reshaped Jewish family life in the early modern period. In this webinar on May 24, , Professor Rebecca Wartell will explore this transformation, mining discussions of marriage and marital status in legal and popular Jewish literature to recover the neglected experiences and voices of Jewish and conversa women.

This lecture will introduce klezmer music as a kind of Jewish dialogue, or Jewish discourse. Klezmer is Jewish instrumental music from Eastern Europe, and it comes from the same culture as the Yiddish literature of Sholem Aleichem, S. J. Abramovitsh, and others. December 14th, 2020.

How do some standardized tests come to matter more than others? What types of politics are involved in the creation and persistence of standardized tests? What futures can exams promise in times of crisis? Professor Hilary Falb Kalisman will explore these questions by discussing the history of standardized testing in the Modern Middle East.

CU Program in Jewish Studies presents two Zoom webinars in their series Past and Present Israel and Palestine on October 22 and October 27.

We all know that American law protects our privacy within the home, but does it protect our emotions and personalities?

Professor David Shneer will discuss his newly published book, "Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph" (Oxford, 2020), and show how a Soviet photojournalist used the image of a grieving woman to render this gruesome mass atrocity into a transcendentally human tragedy.

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies and cosponsors welcome David S. Koffman as Jewish Studies’ 2020 Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar. Professor Koffman will present a public lecture titled “Toward a History of Jewish – Native American Relations,” on the CU campus on Thursday, February 6, …

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies and cosponsors will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) with a public lecture by visiting scholar Edward B. Westermann, Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.

The Program in Jewish Studies and College of Music welcome Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz of Veretski Pass for a free concert on the CU Boulder campus, September 16.

Professor Elias Sacks has been appointed the new Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, effective January 1, 2020.

The cohort will spend five days in May at Chautauqua in Boulder and will present the results of their residency at the Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library.

The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to announce that Hilary Falb Kalisman, Assistant Professor of History and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies in the Program in Jewish Studies, won a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

The Center for Bioethics and Humanities and the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder present a public lecture titled “Medicine & Morality in Times of War” with Professor Len Rubenstein and Dr. Zaher Sahloul as part of the 2019 Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program.

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies and cosponsors welcome poet and professor Irena Klepfisz as Jewish Studies’ 2019 Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar.

This weekend, Professor Elias Sacks will return to Steamboat Springs to present two talks on August 17 and 18, 2018 at Har Mishpacha.

The new Archive Transformed residency program connecting artists and scholars will hold two public events this month: a performance at Old Main Chapel May 13 and presentations by the inaugural residency cohort at the Boulder Public Library May 17.

Who is She? The Shekhinah, which derives from the Hebrew word for "dwell or settle," is a feminine divine presence, guiding and protecting men and women everywhere. Learn more at the Third Biannual Embodied Judaism Symposium at CU Boulder.

Holocaust Remembrance Week: A community-wide exploration and commemoration of the Holocaust, featuring a keynote presentation, two film premieres, a concert, speakers, and Holocaust survivor testimony. 

The Program in Jewish Studies is pleased to welcome scholar and translator Naomi Sheindel Seidman to serve as the 2016 Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Why does a family save its papers? Find out from Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Visiting Scholar at CU.

The renowned musical troupe Jewlia Eisenberg and Charming Hostess will perform two concerts in Boulder Saturday and Monday.