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The Department of Jewish Studies is proud to present many exciting guest speakers and events throughout the year. For past events, please see the sidebar.
Upcoming Events
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Date: January 13, 2026
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
Location:听Visible Storage Gallery, McLennan Library Building, 4th floor,
Join the 涩里番 Visual Arts Collection and the Student Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students for a special guided tour focused on the听Jewish Painters of Montreal, a remarkable group of artists who helped shape the city鈥檚 cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century. Through selected works from the Collection, this tour will highlight how these artists captured the social landscape of their time. Participants will also be invited to consider the artwork itself as a primary document, tracing its journey from the artist鈥檚 studio, through the hands of collectors and patrons, to its eventual place within an institutional collection. Discover how each painting tells not only the story of its subject, but also the layered histories of those who created, valued, and preserved it.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). The date marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of听, the Nazi鈥檚 largest concentration and extermination camp. 1.1 million people were killed in the camp; almost 1 million of them were Jews. On this day in 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau and its remaining prisoners.听
Primo Levi, an Italian Jew, chronicled all he and others endured Auschwitz, including the camp's liberation, in听. Tova Friedman also survived Auschwitz. She was among the youngest survivors, and听听decades later.听
The camp has become a symbol of both unimaginable cruelty, but also of tremendous resilience.听In 2005, the UN鈥檚听听named January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day in honor of the victims of Nazism and to encourage Holocaust education. Six million Jews were killed during the Nazi regime, along with millions of others, including Roma-Sinti, homosexuals, communists, Catholics, and the mentally or physically disabled.
Commemorative Lectures
涩里番's International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorative Lectures honour the memory of Holocaust victims, raise awareness about antisemitism, and foster education and scholarship to combat hatred and promote understanding.听听
On January 27, 2026, 涩里番 will welcome Professor Aliza Luft, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Professor Luft will share her research on the Holocaust in France in a lecture titled 鈥淏etween God and Vichy: Religion, Race, and the Holocaust in France."
Date:听January 27, 2026
Time:听5:00-6:30 PM
Location:听Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish
Professor Luft's research examines the fluctuating relationships between social identity, ideology, and interpersonal, socio-political action in contexts marked by war and violence. Her book,听Sacred Treason: Race, Religion, and The Holocaust in France, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. Another book, the second听Handbook of The Sociology of Morality, co-authored with Shai Dromi and Steve Hitlin, was recently published by Springer. She has also published numerous op-Eds and interviews in听The Washington Post; New Yorker; LA Times; NY Times, and elsewhere.听