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The Center for Teaching Innovation will host “What Works,” on Oct. 1, featuring presentations, the Canvas Course Spotlight awardees, and a poster showcase that will demonstrate engaged learning approaches from Cornell faculty teaching in a diverse range of courses and fields.
A Cornell historian argues that human historians are vital to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events.
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Maimonides, one of the most significant intellectual figures of the medieval period,worked as a physician, thought like a scientist, and served as a leader of the Jewish community in Cairo.
“This year, we highly recommend that students employ a well-defined strategy of targeting companies and tailoring their resume to applications."
Sam Tanenhaus is the former editor-in-chief of both the New York Times’ Book Review and the Week in Review and was a Times writer at large.
An award-winning essay (1916) on Jewish life at Cornell by Morris J. Escoll.
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
Hyrum Edwards is a Robert S. Harrison College Scholar who also majored in history, Jewish studies & Near Eastern studies.
Columbia University's Khatchig Mouradian will give a lecture, “Ethnic Cleansing in the Long 19th Century: The Native American, Circassian, and Armenian Cases,” on April 24.
On behalf of the Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University, we invite proposals for a forthcoming workshop on April 27-28, 2025, in Ithaca, NY, on the topic of the relationship between state authorities, Jews, and European societies during the Holocaust. The deadline for submission is November 10, 2024.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Nathan Thrall will talk about his most recent book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.”
Cornell researchers have received a $150,000 NEH Digital Humanities Advanced Grant to create a 3D virtual modeling project based on the Casa della Regina Carolina, a large Pompeian house.
Cornell’s “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined” series concludes this semester with a talk by Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University.
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
Enzo Traverso, the Susan and Bart Winokur Professor in the Humanities, has received an honorary doctorate from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Kim Haines-Eitzen, the Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor of Near Eastern studies, and Mostafa Minawi, associate professor of history and director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies, will pursue research projects in residence in Durham, North Carolina.
The collection “Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt” shifts the archaeological perspective from public and elite spaces such as temples, tombs and palaces to everyday dwellings and interactions of families.
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Alain Elkann discusses his literary and journalistic work at library-hosted event.
Students from the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s Cornell in Washington program will have an opportunity to observe in person how policymakers contend with Islamophobia and antisemitism at a White House briefing on March 14.
The Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Associate in Jewish Studies beginning July 1, 2024, with a specialization in Holocaust Studies.
The Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Associate in Jewish Studies, beginning July 1, 2024, with a specialization in modern Israel Studies.
Leading academics from around the country will join Cornell experts in a semester-long series, “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined.”
IES faculty associate Kora von Wittelsbach, senior lecturer in Romance Studies, led the effort to bring the Alain Elkann Collection to the Cornell Library.
Cornell Cinema's spring semester film slate features a mix of contemporary and classic films selected to spark curiosity, inspire understanding, and advance teaching across disciplines.
The award was given for “Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire.”
About 2,000 people gathered in October in Greenwich Village for the Triangle Fire Memorial dedication. The 1911 workplace disaster became a catalyst for worker protections and a defining moment for the nation.
A Nov. 16 talk sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences will shed light on the history of hate movements in the U.S.
Submission deadline is December 15, 2023 for "Making Space: Peopling and Placing the Matter of Jewish Studies," a conference to take place in Spring 2024 at Cornell University.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will offer “Understanding Events in Israel – Palestine” from 5-6:30 p.m. in Room 165 of McGraw Hall.
Jon A. Lindseth’s collection of Jewish fables complements the library’s holdings related to Jewish Studies.
The professorships are possible because of generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
We look forward to seeing where your experiences lead you in life. Congratulations on your graduation.
On April 20, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, David Nirenberg, will give a talk on the history of anti-semitism and how it can help us understand debates about anti-semitism today.
The program now has four endowed faculty positions, 28 affiliated faculty from more than 15 departments and nearly 40 courses offered each year.
Long before Isaac Kramnick joined the Cornell faculty, he was a foster child from a family grappling with poverty and mental illness.
Enzo Traverso critiques a new trend in historical writing, in which historians place themselves in their books.
In recognition of his distinguished scholarly contributions to medieval studies, Brann will be inducted during the academy’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25.
Noah Tamarkin's book "Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa" (Duke University Press, 2020) has recently received two awards.
The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
Pre-enrollment for Spring 2023 begins November 2 for undergraduate students at Cornell.
Israeli archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and his colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter.
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“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”
Mayer Juni, History and Jewish Studies
The Babylonian Talmud, a collection of rabbinic writings produced in ancient Persia, contains a great deal of medical knowledge, according to a recent book by the new director of the Jewish Studies Program.