In the 20th century, Hollywood films have been central to American popular culture, reflecting and refracting social forces while encapsulating the ambitions, anxieties, and nightmares of American life.
The relationship between holy sites, religion, political conflict, and violence has become a point of great interest and even urgency in scholarship and in the popular press alike.
From child prodigy to the most celebrated composer of his time: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was hailed as a genius, reviled as a sentimentalist, beloved as a model of assimilated thinking and attacked for his Jewish heritage.
The Refugee in the Postwar World was an interdisciplinary conference that explored the causes, consequences, and contemporary interpretations of the refugee crises that followed the end of World War II.
Revival and New Directions?: Jewish Arts in German-Speaking Countries, an international research conference, focused on the revival of Jewish arts in German- speaking countries, and featured leading art historians, cultural historians, writers and theor
The symposium gathered distinguished scholars from the United States and Europe who, together with scholars from ASU, will discuss the relationship between trauma, memory, representation, memorialization and education.
The XV International Research Conference of LAJSA, the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, will be held 12-14 June 2011 at Arizona State University (ASU),
Among the Jewish composers who died in the Holocaust, or whose music was suppressed by the Third Reich, these two stand out for their productivity, the quality of their musical imaginations, and the unusual and fraught contexts in which they worked.
This symposium inaugurated the formal relationship between the Center for Jewish Studies, The Melikian Cen
This international research conference at Arizona State University focused on the richness of Polish-Jewish music from World War I to the decades after World War II and its relationship to the complex problem of Polish Jewish identity.