Topic: Education
A Credit to the Nation: The Lost World of East European Jewish Immigrant ‘Bankers,’ 1873-1930 with Dr. Rebecca Kobrin
How different would the central narrative of American Jewish immigration history sound if we invited its commercial practices to center stage? Between 1870 and 1930
American Jewish Literature Working Group
The American Jewish Literature Working Group of the Grant Center at Tulane convened at the suggestion of Michael Cohen, and has been co-organized by Maeera
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.
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
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
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.
Monash University Partnership
The Grant Center looks to deepen its partnership with Monash University’s Australian Center for Jewish Civilisation (ACJC)- the leading home for Jewish Studies in Australia.
Only Miracles
Only Miracles is a 90-minute interactive, theatrical, and educational experience written and directed by Dodd Loomis as his final MFA thesis showing. It is sectioned
Kosher Soul: Black Jewish Identity Cooking with Michael W. Twitty
Michael W. Twitty is an award-winning culinary historian and food writer. His 2017 book, “The Cooking Gene,” traced his ancestry through food from Africa to
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Jewish Education
In this special event, authors from a recent themed issue of Journal of Jewish Education discussed their articles on race, ethnicity, and immigration in Jewish
What Girls Learn in Jewish Families | Professor Ilana Horwitz
“In the past, Jewish families, like many others, offered girls fewer educational opportunities than boys. But that has not been the case for some time
Larry Kanter Lecture Series – Wild Outside in the Night: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context
The late Jewish American gay artist Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) changed the face of children’s literature by depicting emotionally isolated, unruly, and ethnically particular protagonists who
