The 2020 Tobias Lectures were held (virtually) last week, featuring two lectures with Prof. Moshe Halbertal of NYU and Hebrew University. Recordings of both lectures are now available. You find them below or on the …

This fall students can take five new courses through Jewish Studies: Jewish Humor, Israeli Culture in Music and Film, Muslims and Jews, Sexual Violence in the Bible, and Anne Frank. In Sunny Yudkoff’s Jewish Humor, …

On October 7 and 8 please join us via Zoom for two talks by Moshe Halbertal of New York University. Presented through our Tobias Lecture Series, established by Marjorie and Harry Tobias, each talk will …

We are delighted to welcome Professor Sunny Yudkoff in her new role as the director of the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, which is now under the auspices of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. …

In Search of Survivors: A 12,000-Mile Research Trip from Madison to Jerusalem and Back By Chad S.A. Gibbs As a graduate student conducting Holocaust research in Jerusalem last fall, I hardly expected that my findings …

When UW–Madison students returned from winter break on January 21, they poured into lecture halls and dining halls, queued up at their favorite State Street cafes, and resumed their campus routines. The first hint of …

In-person course instruction and most campus activities have been suspended through May 15 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All courses have moved to online instruction and any events we had scheduled for the rest …

In Wisconsin, The New Home of the Jew, Jonathan Z. S. Pollack describes the daily lives, contributions, and challenges of Jewish students, faculty, staff, and alumni at UW–Madison. The early establishment of student Zionist groups, Hillel, …