News and Events

The Department of Jewish Thought has just received sad news about passing of Mr. Gordon Gross, LLB -- may his memory be a blessing. His philanthropic contributions strongly supported and helped bring to fruition the University at Buffalo vision of creating a nationally and internationally leading Department of Jewish Thought. His legacy of supporting the cutting edge scholarship on the role and importance of intellectual achievements of the Jewish tradition for the humanity at large continues to be exemplary and will have a lasting effect on the advancement of academic scholarship of Jewish Tradition.

Our second blind date with a Jewish book took place in March.  This time, the presentation was by Dr. Theodore Steinberg, distinguished professor emeritus of the faculty of English at SUNY Fredonia, and, since his retirement, a beloved teacher in the local community.

Chaim Elly Moseson of University of Hamburg presents "We Were As Dreamers: Prayer as the Royal Road to the Unconscious in Hasidism"

Professor Shira Weiss, of Ben Gurion University presented a lecture titled: "Free Choice and the Bible: The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart in Philosophical Exegesis"

Professor Noam Pines presented his new book "The Infrahuman: Animality in Modern Jewish Literatures"