Recent News

Professor Sergey Dolgopolski's new book! "The Other Others" puts contemporary political theory and a literary-theoretical exploration of the core text of Rabbinic Judaism, the Talmud, into both a fruitful and tensed conversation one with another. In the words of the book's catalogue description: "Denying legal and moral existence to those who do not belong to a land, while tolerating diversity of those who do stabilizes a political order—or does it? Revisiting this core problem of contemporary political theory, Other Others turns to the Talmud as an untapped resource for a conception of the political and a take on excluded others our philosophical and theological traditions have effaced."

A ceremony on April 4th, 2019 honored twenty-five College of Arts and Sciences seniors for their noteworthy contributions to the College and their individual department or program. Congratulations, Louis!

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"