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Lessons in Capturing the Jewish Bronx: Grad Student and Professional Oral Historian Guide Interviews

Lessons in Capturing the Jewish Bronx: Grad Student and Professional Oral Historian Guide Interviews

A new generation of students at the Bronx Jewish History Project is getting help from those with experience—the group’s student co-founder and a professional historian.  BJHP is a Fordham research …

Center for Jewish Studies Launches Bronx Jewish History Project

Center for Jewish Studies Launches Bronx Jewish History Project

In the first half of the 20th century, the Bronx was home to hundreds of thousands of Jewish residents, many of whom had immigrated with their families in the late …

Ukrainian Scholars Persist In Spite of War

Ukrainian Scholars Persist In Spite of War

When Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies quickly helped to create a fellowship program to support 12 scholars working under unimaginable conditions. Today, the program, …

At Holocaust Remembrance Event, Reimagining How to Retell a Vital Story

At Holocaust Remembrance Event, Reimagining How to Retell a Vital Story

How do you keep alive the memory of something as consequential as the Holocaust when almost everyone with firsthand knowledge of it is gone? This was the challenge that a …

University Unveils the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room

University Unveils the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room

It was an unexpectedly emotional affair on the fourth floor of the Walsh Library when faculty, students, staff, and friends of Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies gathered to inaugurate the …

Fordham Launches Fundraising Drive for Students Affected by Ukraine Crisis

Fordham Launches Fundraising Drive for Students Affected by Ukraine Crisis

Fordham University has launched a fundraising drive to help its students from Ukraine or Russia who are facing financial difficulties stemming from the war begun on February 24 by Russian …

Fordham Launches Lecture Series and Fellowship Program to Help Ukrainian Scholars

Fordham Launches Lecture Series and Fellowship Program to Help Ukrainian Scholars

Millions of refugees are fleeing Ukraine, but many scholars are choosing to stay—not because of the travel ban for Ukrainian men ages 18 to 60 who might be summoned to …