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Please join us again this year on March 5 for an evening featuring Hebrew songs of hope and joy.

An evening dedicated to the legacy of David Shneer, as a scholar, a mentor, and a builder of institutions.

The next event in the CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies Israel/Palestine Series is "Palestine, American Law, and the State of (Semi)-Permanent Exception," which will take place Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

Barbara Steinmetz, a Holocaust survivor, shares her escape from Europe to the Dominican Republic on March 18, 2025, at CU. All are welcome.

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

Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman discusses the surprising heritage of Blanche Moses' ancestors, revealing their enslaved beginnings and extraordinary journey across the Atlantic.

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.

What is the relationship between anti-Black racism, antisemitism, sexism, and Nazism? This talk addresses this and other questions by looking back at the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and analyzing connections to our own times.

Please join CU Boulder Jewish Studies Program for this year's first Israel-Palestine Series event.

Save the date for CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies' annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program public lecture, by Dr. Brown-Fleming, January 27, 2025.

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.

Dr. Paweł Maciejko will discuss the controversial 18th-century Rabbi Eibeschütz, accused of crypto-Christianity and Sabbatean heresy, at CU Boulder on March 6.

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.

The Program in Jewish Studies along with the Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History will hold a public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust.

Can Jewish text and tradition offer resources for navigating the emotional terrain of climate change? In her presentation, Prof. Watts Belser will examine ancient and contemporary stories about Jonah, the biblical prophet who famously turned away from God’s call.  

Each year, the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder presents a music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public. At this year's in-person concert, the most iconic collection of songs in the Hebrew/Israeli repertoire will be performed.

Co-organized by CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies and the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, the program is co-sponsored by CU Boulder's History Department. 

The CU Program in Jewish Studies is hosting a public lecture on February 15th by Professor Kimmy Caplan of Bar-Ilan University on Religious Zionism and its importance to understanding Israeli society.

The book is described as “an unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds.” 

This year's International Holocaust Remembrance Day speaker is Alan E. Steinweis. Professor Steinweis will examine whether moral outrage over the Holocaust was a motive behind two assassination attempts against Hitler.

CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies and the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History invite the public to a presentation by Zev Harel on October 6, who will give testimony about his struggles for survival at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Ebensee.

How did Yiddish culture become the basis for Jewish life in France during the 1920s and 1930s? How did Jewish emigrants from communist, socialist, and other backgrounds come together in Paris to create a new type of diasporic Jewish nationalism?