The Gentile as “Other”
“Gentile Troubles: Saint Paul, the Rabbis, and Us” Adi Ophir (Brown University/Tel Aviv University) Professor Ophir considered the history of the gentile or “goy,” as the Jew’s “other.” Although quite...
View ArticleMazal Tov 2015 Graduates!
Congratulations to our graduating Jewish Studies minors: Samantha Cohen (COM ’15) Andrea Firestone (Questrom ’15) Benjamin Harris (CFA ’15) Robyn Klitzky (COM ’15)
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The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience: Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday In this tribute to Steven T. Katz on the...
View ArticleBook Reviews
Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary and Moral Perspectives reviews: Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews (10/1/13) Jewish Book World Winter (2013/14) Jewish Book Council cover of the week Indiana University...
View ArticleLeo Baeck Essay Award Winner
We are pleased to announce Jonathan Catlin as the winner of our 2015 Leo Baeck Essay Award with his essay entitled “Anti-Semitism” and “Judaism” in Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Jewish Answer to the...
View ArticleRosh Hashanah Student Welcome/Back Party
Students gathered at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies to meet, enjoy Middle Eastern sweets, and listen to live music performed by the Rinat Tregerman Trio. The event took place on September...
View ArticleSinger’s Demons
Alexandra Herzog (Boston University): “Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Demons: A Carnivalesque Journey” Dr. Alexandra Herzog opened her BU Jewish Studies Forum talk on Isaac Bashevis Singer by asking, “Do we...
View ArticleRabin Assassination Commemorated at BU
Boston University commemorated the 20th anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination this year with a lecture by Israeli security expert Efraim Inbar and a panel discussion...
View ArticleQuill of the Soul: A Musical Tribute to Elie Wiesel
On Sunday November 1, the Center hosted Quill of the Soul: A Musical Tribute to Elie Wiesel at the Tsai Performance Center at 7pm. The multicultural performance was also the closing event of the...
View ArticleIsraeli Palestinian Conflict, Kabbalah, and Other New Courses
We are pleased to announce a new course on the Kabbalah, offered this spring semester by Dr. Yair Lior. The course closes a major gap in our curriculum and rounds out other courses we teach on early...
View ArticleMaccabees Project directors speak with Chuck Morse
Professors Andrea Berlin and Yonder Gillihan discuss the BU Maccabees Project on "Chuck Morse Speaks." Follow the link to watch the interview.
View ArticleHow Germany Produced Modern Judaism–Lessons for today
On March 15, from 6:30-7:30, Professor Rabbi David Ellenson will give the Elie Wiesel Center’s third annual Leo Trepp Lecture. Now Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis,...
View ArticleSayed Kashua comes to EWCJS
Best known for Arab Labor, his wildly popular Israeli TV sit-com, Israeli-Palestinian novelist and Haaretz columnist Sayed Kashua was greeted by a standing-room-only audience at the Elie Wiesel Center...
View ArticleErin Miller Featured in CAS Magazine
EWCJS minor, Erin Miller (CAS ’17, SPH ’18), was featured in the College of Arts and Science’s Magazine Spring 2016 for her dedicated research assistance with Dr. Grodin’s project on Rabbinic Responsa...
View Article2016 Leo Baeck Undergraduate Essay Award Winner
This spring marked the second year of The Leo Baeck Institute-NY Essay Prize in German-Jewish History and Culture. EWCJS is pleased to announce Mr. Jesse Gamoran as the winner of our 2016 Leo Baeck...
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CAS Launches New Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Photos of Nazi Holocaust victims at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Study of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis are part of a new CAS minor in Holocaust and genocide studies....
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Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #3
This week marks the first anniversary of Professor Elie Wiesel’s death on July 2, 2016 (26 Sivan 5776). Thus far, our retrospective has taken a chronological approach to the works of Professor Wiesel,...
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Jewish Restitution and Cultural Genocide
Professor Leora Bilsky joined us on March 15 for our third BUJS Forum of spring semester to give a lecture on the challenges in international law when facing restitution for Jewish communities in...
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Beyond Sartre and Adorno: Jean Améry’s Radical Questioning of Jewish Identity...
What the Shoah has left philosophy with is a failed transcendence. The writings of philosopher Jean Améry in response to his experiences of the Holocaust do not focus on ideology, nor do they focus on...
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Elie Wiesel: A Retrospective, Week #4
In 1962, Elie Wiesel published the final part of his Night trilogy, the novel DAY. The book first appeared in French as Le jour and in English as The Accident. Like Dawn, Day addresses the struggle of...
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