Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

“Can a Literary Mafia Affect Your Choice of Books?”: Jews, Publishing, and American Literature Josh Lambert, Wellesley College In the 1960s and 1970s, many American authors, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, complained about a “Jewish literary mafia.” While perniciously circulating antisemitic ideas, such claims also reflected the remarkable success of Jews in the U.S. publishing industry. […]

Jews of Algeria in Light of Modern Studies: Major Trends and New Horizons Amina Boukail, University of Jijel-Algeria Register for this virtual event here: https://myumi.ch/RWq4G In this talk, Amina Boukail outlines the development of contemporary scholarship on Algerian Jews. In doing so, she offers a critical examination of contemporary research on Algerian Jews in several […]

A Jewish Race Scientist in Twentieth-Century Britain Todd M. Endelman, Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan This lecture will explore how Redcliffe Salaman, an eminent Jewish scientist in early twentieth-century Britain, embraced a racial understanding of Jewish peoplehood and how he developed a biological history of the Jews. It will emphasize […]