The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University will host the annual Leonard Wolinsky Lectures in Jewish Life and Education on May 2 at 4 p.m. ET on Zoom. This year's event will explore the theme of "The Lives and Afterlives of Yiddish" with talks from two prominent speakers In “Echoes […]
Dr. Randal Schnoor who teaches ‘Contemporary Jewish Life in North America’ and ‘Church, Mosque, Synagogue in Medieval Spain’ will be participating in a panel discussion on South African Jewish immigrants to Toronto. He will be presenting highlights of his sociological study on this community. Full details below:
When Diana Cooper-Clark began her research about Jewish refugees escaping to Jamaica during the Second World War, she knew she was embarking on a virtually unknown story within the Holocaust narrative. The York University professor focused on Jews who took refuge in Jamaica’s Gibraltar Camp after finding an article referencing the subject, written in 1994 […]
Events at the Centre for Jewish Studies
Prof Weiser - Jewish Tribune Article Feb 25 2014 (PDF)
Jewish identity: in those days, as now CJN article by Prof. Yedida Eisenstat
This year we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Yedida Eisenstat, who received her BA at York and recently completed a PhD at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as an instructor. Among the courses, she will be teaching are Rabbinic Judaism, The Jewish Experience (now a 6 credit 1000-level General Education class, no longer a 9 credit 2000 […]