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Thomas Pegelow Kaplan gave a lecture on November 14th, 2022 to Israeli faculty and PhD students as well as to guests from Germany at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The title of his talk was 鈥淗olocaust Studies in the
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's interview on anti-semitism hate speech was featured in CU 麻豆影院 Today. You can read the November 16th article here.
Brian Catlos' work was featured in the New York Times November 3, 2022. You can find the article, "In Search of a Lost Spain," here.
Samuel L. Boyd has recently published a new article in the Conversation on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. You can find it here.
Hilary Falb Kalisman's new book, Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2022), is featured in Jadaliyya, a Middle Eastern Studies
On October 21, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan will moderate a roundtable for the "Challenging Conversations" series, hosted by North Carolina German Studies. The title of the event is "Historikerstreit 2.0.鈥? The German
Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, has published a new textbook and companion sourcebook, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle. Learn more about
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences at Appalachian State: a symposium for educators on film and photography during the Holocaust, and an academic conference
As we enter the 2022-2023 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at CU 麻豆影院.We are very excited to welcome two new members to Jewish Studies, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the new- Gregg Drinkwater has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Association for Jewish Studies鈥檚 new Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants, which will support his project "Prelude to Pinkwashing: Homonationalism