Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies (IIJS)

Join us tomorrow for this very important discussion on Vichy France.

Join us this Sunday to celebrate the legacy of Salo Baron.

Join us a noon today for a fascinating lecture with Miriam Udel.

Join us for a campus-wide discussion of HOW THE IRISH BECAME WHITE, with Interim Provost Ira Katznelson, IIJS co-Director Rebecca Kobrin, June Cross, and Tim McCarthy. https://bit.ly/3nv2AOH

Join us for this fascinating on conversation on Yiddish Children's Literature.

On the latest episode of the College Commons Podcast, Elisheva Carlebach, editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting ...Modernity, 17501880, and Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society and director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies (IIJS) at Columbia University in the City of New York, talks about the history of modern Judaism. See more

Get a sneak peak into The Storm Within: Yiddish Children’s Literature with a review of Miriam Udel's latest book in the Atlanta Jewish Times.

Calling all Undergrads. Join us at our Virtual Open House at 12 pm today. Email [email protected] for the Zoom linkCalling all Undergrads. Join us at our Virtual Open House at 12 pm today. Email [email protected] for the Zoom link

Illuminating analysis of Jewish midwives on Jewish Book Council discussing Roza the Midwife, whose register is in Vol 6 of The Posen Library ed. Elisheva Carleb...ach of Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies (IIJS). https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org//jewish-midwives-in-hist To learn more, register for our virtual lecture on Sep, 10 at 4pm EST ://../

Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, a conversation between Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Columbia's Prof. Clémence Boulouque.

Revisit The Graduate with our 2017 panel celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film.

Rebecca Kobrin looks back to understand the present political climate.

Watch Aleksandra Jakubczak, Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University and author of "Poles, Jews and the Myth of Trafficking of Women" talk about her book with with Prof. Rebecca Kobrin and Prof. Magorzata Mazurek.

Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

Miss our Israeli Film Series? Stuart Weinstock, our film coordinator, is here to share some great Israeli films including The Unorthodox, not to be confused with Netfilx's Unorthodox. http://www.seret-international.org/freepages/uk-2020-promo/

Enjoy our Spring 2020 Magazine. Inside find an essay by Joshua Teplitsky on plagues past, profiles of our students and faculty, and a peek into the Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies.

Prof. Jeremy Dauber explains Jewish humor during dark times.

"This is not the first time a president of the United States involved himself in quarantining New York." Read Prof. Rebecca Kobrin's op-ed in the Washington Post.