Closed: February 8, 2018 The Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies invites all up-and-coming young writers to submit their essays for consideration for the CJN (Canadian Jewish News) Young Writers Awards. Once again, we will be hosting these awards at York University this spring and would love to see some submissions from our York community! For […]
This event is sold out A keynote address and day-long symposium devoted to serious discussion of the audacious question: “Has there ever been a better home for Jews… than Canada?” http://150canada.info.yorku.ca/no-better-home-for-the-jews-than-canada/ By certain measures, Canada is and has been the safest, most socially welcoming, economically secure, and possibly most religiously tolerant home for the Jews […]
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards ceremony on Sunday, October 15th, 2017 at 2:00pm in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolades Building East, on York University’s Keele Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets available here. Complimentary parking is available just a few steps […]
It is our pleasure to invite you to the second annual CJN Prize (for Young Writers) Awards Ceremony on February 22, 2017 at 6:30PM at the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, Accolades Building East. Registration and Reception 6:30PM Awards Ceremony 7:30-9:00PM Dessert Reception 9:00PM *Kashrut Observed Free tickets available at: http://bit.ly/CJNPAC Support, […]
It is our pleasure to invite you to a talk with Prof. Dara Horn, entitled “History and Imagination: The Place of Literature in Holocaust Remembrance”. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with Professors Michael Brown, Julia Creet and Sara Horowitz. The event will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 4pm […]
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards ceremony on Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 2:00pm in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolades Building East, on York University’s Keele Campus. Complimentary parking will be available just a few steps away in the Student Services Parking Structure. Passes to the […]
The publication of Irène Némirovsky’s posthumous bestseller Suite Française in 2004, more than sixty years after the author’s death in Auschwitz, has acquired an almost legendary status. Susan Rubin Suleiman will discuss the reality behind the legend, and outline the ways in which Némirovsky’s “rebirth” as an author after being forgotten for many years transformed the lives […]
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming panel “Trudeau: Good for the Jews?” to be held on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 2pm at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolades East Building, York University. The panel will explore a wide range of domestic and international issues that concern Canadian Jews about the recent shift […]
