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Jewish Studies lecturer featured in Amazon docuseries

Amazon Prime’s new docuseries, ‘‘The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side,” features Elissa Sampson, lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program, in Episode 2.

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Alumna’s film screening to include Q&A with Holocaust survivor

Price Arana ’87 will be on campus April 22 to host a 5:15 p.m. screening of her directorial film debut, “An Undeniable Voice,” in Milstein Hall’s Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium.

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APR 30Overrepresented Minorities? Asians and Jews in the M... Jews have often been compared to other ethnic and religious groups in America, including Italians and Irish but especially African Americans. Above all, these comparisons reveal fundamental...

MAY 06A "Jewish" Joy of Cooking? How a Twentieth Century C... Dr. Nora Rubel of the University of Rochester will deliver a lecture titled “A ‘Jewish’ Joy of Cooking? How a Twentieth Century Cookbook Containing Frog’s Legs, Snails, and...

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Minor in Jewish Studies

We provide instruction and specialization in the fields of:

Semitic languages
Hebrew Bible
Medieval and modern Hebrew literature and film
Ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history
Holocaust Studies
Jewish ethnography
World Jewish literature
Yiddish culture

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