This is the page of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Join us for talks, lunches, movies, and more!
We are an emerging Jewish Studies Program at the largest public university in South Carolina. Our core faculty consists of Federica Clementi (English), Saskia Coenen-Snyder (History), and Katja Vehlow (Religious Studies), and our head is Stanley Dubinsky (English).
02/02/2024
Come join us this Monday evening for a conversation about the intersections of Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Antisemitism on College Campuses with Dr. Jeffrey Herbst, President of the American Jewish University. He'll be in discussion with Joel Samuels, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at USC. Feb 5 at the Law School auditorium, 6 PM. Registration preferred.
10/24/2023
Join us for the Yaschik Lecture in Jewish Studies next Thursday evening! Dr. Clive Webb (University of Sussex, UK) will present a talk on the impact of the Holocaust on the American Civil Rights Movement. Not to be missed!
08/22/2023
Our first event of the Fall 2023 semester. Come join us!
08/18/2022
First day of a new class at UofSC: "Shalom Y'All: Jewish History in the American South. Engaging History Through Objects." What started out as an NEH Summer Institute at the College of Charleston (thank you Dale Rosengarten and Shari Rabin!) is now a new upper-level history course. We'll be looking at Jewish cookbooks, 18th c. miniatures, the lunch counter (as a space of encounter during the Civil Rights Movement), synagogues, vinyl record covers, and lots more!
05/18/2022
Hi all -- this coming Fall semester I'll be teaching a new course at USC called "Shalom Y'all: Jewish History in the American South" (HIST471). Help spread the word!
03/02/2021
Join us to hear this wonderful writer and researcher talk about children during the Holocaust and the importance of the diaries they left behind. Follow the livestream by clicking here: https://www.facebook.com/AnneFrankCenterforMutualRespect
04/15/2020
The 2020 Supplement of "The Holocaust Remembered" appeared throughout the South Carolina today, including in the Post & Courier. This annual publication chooses a different theme each year, and this time around it appropriately centered on "75 Years Later: What Have We Learned?"
Numerous USC faculty contributed articles, including Federica Schoeman and Saskia Coenen Snyder (Jewish Studies), Doyle Stevick and Meir Muller (both from Education), and Ted Rosengarten (College of Charleston and USC Honors College). Mayor Steve Benjamin also wrote a piece. Many thanks to Lilly Filler for investing an enormous amount of time in this annual edition.
Holocaust Remembered Click here to view this item from Post and Courier.
01/30/2020
75th Anniversary of Liberation of Auschwitz Commemoration 75th Anniversary of Liberation of Auschwitz Commemoration.