Jeffrey Shandler, Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, will discuss his new book, Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum (Indiana University Press, 2024). Shandler tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate the Jewish cultures of Eastern Europe destroyed […]
The Ruth and Alvin Rockoff Annual Lecture Join a discussion between Miriam Herschlag, opinion and blogs editor for The Times of Israel, and Nancy Sinkoff, the Bildner Center’s academic director, one year after the October 7 attack on Israel. Raised in New Jersey, Herschlag has been based in Tel Aviv for decades, working as a […]
The Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health (REACH) in collaboration with the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement, the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity, and the Rutgers Center for Urban Research and Education is hosting a hybrid Housing Conference. The conference will take place at the Edward J. Bloustein School of […]
The Raoul Wallenberg Annual Program, funded by Leon and Toby Cooperman Jonathan Marc Gribetz, Professor of Near Eastern studies and Judaic studies at Princeton University, will speak about his new book on the history of the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, from its establishment in 1965 until its expulsion from Lebanon in 1983. Gribetz examines […]