Primo Levi within Holocaust Literature
In the fall of 2012, Professor Harrowitz will be teaching RN459, “Primo Levi within Holocaust Literature”. Primo Levi’s writings employ a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the Holocaust: scientific, literary, theological and philosophical. The course will examine these approaches by reading Levi’s works within the double context of other theorists such as Arendt, Wiesel, […]
Africans, African Americans, and the Abrahamic Religions Symposium
On April 19 and April 20th, BU’s African American Studies Program presented the Africans, African Americans, and the Abrahamic Religions Symposium on the 9th floor of Photonics on BU’s campus. This symposium explored the impact that the Abrahamic Religions have had on Africans and their descendants in the Americas from the period of the slave trade […]
Holocaust Remembrance at BU
This year, Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) began in the evening of Wednesday, April 18th and ended in the evening of Thursday, April 19th. In honor of the event, Boston University hosted a series of educational events in addition to remembrance activities. April 11th A lecture by Sydney Handler, a Holocaust survivor and BU Alum, […]
Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni on Pius XII and Jewish Vatican Relations
On Thursday, March 22nd, Rabbi Riccardo Shmuel Di Segni, M.D., Chief Rabbi of Rome since 2001, introduced an audience of about 100 students and community members to the long-standing debate on the Vatican’s policies in the 1930s and 40s when Italy introduced racial laws and Jews were deported to death camps. Dr. Di Segni, a […]
Voices on Antisemitism: Professor Michael Grodin
Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Michael Grodin recently became part of the podcast series Voices on Antisemitism with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Professor Grodin has written about Nazi doctors and the effect that the Holocaust has had on contemporary medical ethics. In his podcast he discusses the ways that medical ethics can be […]
A Story of the Deaf Holocaust
Little information is known about deaf Jewish life in Germany and Eastern Europe during the 1940’s and the Holocaust. Students joined Ph.D candidate Mark Zaurov (University of Hamburg) as he spoke on his research and findings of deaf Jewish life in WWII Germany. The event was co-sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies […]
An Israeli and a Palestinian Woman Speak at BU
On Thursday, February 16th at 5 p.m., the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic studies hosted a conversation with Ella Kraus and Reem Ghunaim. Ella, a Jewish Israeli woman from Sderot (near the Gaza strip), and Reem, an Muslim Arab woman from Tulkarem (in the northern region of the Palestinian West Bank), shared their experiences living […]
Department of Religion Presents its 16th Annual Lecture
Join Professor Anthony T. Grafton (Princeton University, Henry Putnam University) on Monday, February 27, 6pm, in the Photonics Colloquium Room as he discusses the story of cultural contact between early Christians and Judaic texts in his lecture “Jewish Books and Christian Readers in Early Modern Europe”. Reception to follow lecture. This event is free and […]
Haifa, Hikes & Hummus: BU Study Abroad in Israel
On Monday, February 6th, University of Haifa admissions coordinator Noa Balf met with interested students at the Hillel House to answer questions about the semester abroad in Israel program.
“Sex Segregation in Israel: Where Do You Sit?” Film & Lecture Special Event
The National Center for Jewish Film co-presented “Sex Segregation in Israel: Where Do You Sit?” Film & Lecture Special Event on Monday, January 23, 2012, featuring Boston University professor Pnina Lahav. The event featured Black Bus by filmmaker Anat Zuria (Purity and Sentenced to Marriage), a film which follows the lives of two young women […]