Leo Baeck Essay Award Winner
We are pleased to announce Jonathan Catlin as the winner of our 2015 Leo Baeck Essay Award with his essay entitled “Anti-Semitism” and “Judaism” in Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Jewish Answer to the Jewish Question. Mr. Catlin is a graduating senior at the University of Chicago, where he received honors in Jewish Studies and the Great Books program, Fundamentals: […]
Book Reviews
Check out these great reviews of Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary and Moral Perspectives, Edited by Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen
Kirkus Reviews (10/1/13)
Jewish Book World Winter (2013/14)
Just Published
The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience: Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 edited by Seán Hand and Steven T. Katz
Mazal Tov 2015 Graduates!
Samantha Cohen (COM ’15)
Andrea Firestone (Questrom ’15)
Benjamin Harris (CFA ’15)
Robyn Klitzky (COM ’15)
Visiting Professor Thomas Meyer in the NY Times
Elie Wiesel Center visiting professor Thomas Meyer is quoted in the NYTimes, offering insight into the revived debate on German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s anti-Semitism. Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” offer clarification for some scholars and perplexity for others.
Environmental studies in Israel, across political boundaries: Arava Institute
The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is an environmental academic and research program in southern Israel, and the only institution which brings together students from around the world, from countries such as America, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan to cooperatively study the region’s environmental challenges. Accredited by Ben-Gurion University, the Arava Institute houses academic programs,research centers, and cross […]
MA in European Jewish History (LBI London)
An opportunity for graduate and undergraduate students to pursue a masters degree in European Jewish History from the Leo Baeck Institute at the School of History at Queen Mary: “The School of History at Queen Mary is a centre for excellence in the teaching of History and in historical research. Its members are known for […]
This summer, study Primo Levi and The Holocaust in Italy
This summer in Padua, Professor Nancy Harrowitz will introduce students to Primo Levi whose writings give us a glimpse of what it was like to experience a Nazi concentration camp.
Savyon Liebrecht in Residence
The EWCJS and Israeli Stage are proud to host award-winning author and playwright Savyon Liebrecht for a two-week residency including lectures and performances – all for free!
Susannah Heschel on “Joy and Obligation”
On Tuesday March 4, the Elie Wiesel Center inaugurated a new lecture series named for Leo Trepp (1913-2010), a rabbi and teacher who fled Nazi Germany and was active in the Boston area before settling in California.