Participation Level: Grant Center Library Resource
Rottman Family Lecture – In Each and Every Generation: Survivors and Their Descendants with Dr. David Slucki
In this talk, Dr. David Slucki examines the long-term impact of the Holocaust on survivors, and their children and grandchildren and how the ways we think about these impacts have changed over time and generations.
Audrey G. Ratner Series: Jews by Nature: The Summer Camp in American Jewish Culture with Sandra Fox
How did the residential summer camp become an integral part of American Jewish life? Is there something special about the relationship between Jews and camp?
Rottman Family Lecture: The Art of the Jewish Family with Laura Arnold Leibman
WATCH EVENT RECORDING Part of the TAWANI Foundation Audrey G. Ratner Speaker Series In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned
Audrey G. Ratner Speaker Series: Children of the Inquisition Film Screening
Children of the Inquisition: Their Story Can Now Be Told reveals the stories of the families who were forced to convert to Catholicism or flee
“Make me a King” Short Film Screening and Talkback
The Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience screened Make Me a King, a short film about Ari, a Jewish Drag King ostracized by their family,
Rottman Family Lecture: “If I am Only my Genes, What am I? Jewish Identity and the Genetic Self”
Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair of Jewish Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Sociology, and the Director of the
Film Screening: The Lonely Child
The Lonely Child is a forthcoming feature documentary about a little-known Yiddish lullaby “Dos Elnte Kind” (The Lonely Child) written inside the Vilna Ghetto during the
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? Dr. Pamela S. Nadell explores her groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. Dr. Nadell’s book won the National Jewish Book Award–Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year.
A Unique Moment for Jewish Americans? – Beinner Annual Symposium
The annual Beinner Symposium brings together world-renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines – from history to literature, to economics, to sociology and more – to foster innovative collaborations that open new directions for the study of the American Jewish experience.
CULTURE & HERITAGE SERIES – The Jewish Deli: Lecture by Ted Merwin – Author of Pastrami on Rye
For much of the 20th century, the corner Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life—a kind of homeland for the soul, with pickles on the side. As a social space it rivaled the synagogue as the primary gathering place for the Jewish community. At the same time the deli became an icon in popular culture, featured in a plethora of plays, films, TV shows, songs and stand-up routines.
Beinner Annual Symposium
Contextualizing Antisemitism in Today’s American Jewish Landscape (2025) The Annual Beinner Symposium unites leading scholars and practitioners from diverse fields—including history, literature, economics, sociology, journalism,
A Cross-Continental Conversation: Dr. Ilana Horwitz and Dr. David Slucki Discuss Jewish Socioeconomic Diversity
The conversation touches on the role of Jewish institutions in providing social capital and how changes in religious engagement in the U.S. affect these dynamics.