Skip to content
  • Apply Now
    • Undergraduate Programs
    • Graduate Programs
Baruch college | Baruch College-logo Baruch College-logo City University of New York CUNY-logo

Menu

    Home
    About Weissman
    • Office of the Dean
      • Biography
      • Dean’s Advisory Council
      • Dean’s Office Staff
    • Strategic Plan
    • Virtual Campus Tour
    • Weissman Assessment
    Academics
    • Degree Requirements
    • Graduate Programs
    • Areas of Study
    • Academic Departments
    • Online Bulletin
    • Honors Program
    Student Resources
    • Declare a Liberal Arts Major
    • Declare a Minor
    • Academic Appeals
    • Academic Help
    • Careers and Internships
      • Graduate Careers
    • Advisement
    Faculty & Staff
    • Scholarly Opportunities & Professional Development
    • Weissman Committees
    • Teaching in Freshman Learning Communities
    • Directory
    Arts & Culture
    • Sidney Harman Writer-In-Residence Program
    • Sidney Mishkin Gallery
    • Sandra K Wasserman Jewish Studies Center
    • Baruch Performing Arts Center
      • The Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert Series
      • Aaron Silberman Concert Series
      • The Alexander String Quartet
    • Fine and Performing Arts
    In the Spotlight
    • The Weissman Newsletter
      • Previous Issues of The Weissman Newsletter
    • Destination Weissman
    • Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
    • Arts and Culture at Weissman
    • Sandra K Wasserman Jewish Studies Center
    • Academic Programs
    • Arts and Culture
    • Public Programs
    • Hillel at Baruch
    • Associated Faculty
    • Advisory Board
    • Internships, Fellowships & Awards
    • Contact Us

    Sandra K Wasserman Jewish Studies Center

    Mission

    The Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center (WJSC) in the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College reflects the legacy and heritage of the college, its tradition of educating New York City immigrants, its diverse population, and its special relationship to and place within Manhattan.

    The WJSC is uniquely positioned to take advantage of Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, School of Public Affairs, and Weissman School of Arts and Sciences as well as the Baruch Performing Arts Center. The WJSC is dedicated to teaching and informing the Baruch community and public about the history and experiences of Jews in America, specifically in New York City. Public programs, courses, events, and campus activities will focus on the Jewish immigration to New york City, and address some of the biggest issues and challenges currently facing today’s American Jewish community — Jewish philanthropy, Jewish business ethics, Jewish politics, Jewish identity and continuity, and the changing face of American Jewry.

    Spring Public Events 2023

    Interfaith Initiative: Faith, Conflicts and Coalition Series:

    Antisemitism/Anti-Judaism: a conversation between Professor David Nirenberg, Tenth Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and Professor Magda Teter, Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University

    February 7th at 6:00 pm on Zoom

    An in-person reading and discussion with Jane Saginaw, author of the memoir Because the World is Round

    February 23rd at 6:00 pm

    An in-person conversation about Albert Memmi with Jonathan Judaken and Michael Lejman, editors of The Albert Memmi Reader, following a screening of Margaux Fitoussi and Mo Scapelli’s short film El Hara

    March

    A conversation with Achy Obejas, novelist, poet, translator and journalist, author of Days of Awe, part of our Discovering Crypto-Jewish Identities series

    March 28th at 6:00 pm

    Interfaith Initiative: Faith, Conflicts and Coalition Series:

    In-person discussion with Sander Gilman and Zhou Xun:“I Know Who Caused COVID-19”: Pandemics and Xenophobia

    April 17th at 5:30 pm

    Yom HaShoah poetry event:

    April 18th

    With Baruch’s Mishkin Gallery:
    Artist Aura Rosenberg’s cinematic interpretations of philosopher Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood Around 1900 and Theses on the Philosophy of History
    Screening and Public Conversation featuring:
    Aura Rosenberg, Dr. Susan Buck-Morss, CUNY Graduate Center, Dr. Laura López Paniagua, Bard College Berlin

    April 27th

    An in-person conversation with Ben Moser, Pulitzer-Prize winning author and translator of Susan Sontag: Her Life and Work and Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

    April 27-April 28 (Free streaming)

    The Jewish Experience from Basavilbaso to New Amsterdam, dir. Miguel Kohan, 2019

    May 11th

    Children of the Inquisition, dir. Joseph Lovett, 2019

    Free streaming 5/1-5/2 with Zoom director talk back on 5/4 at 6:00 pm

    2023 Spring Film Series: Discovering Crypto-Jewish Identities:

     Xueta Island, dirs., Dani Rotstein, Ofer Laszewicki and Felipe Wolokita, 2022. Featuring a talk back with the directors, March 15th

    The Last Sephardic Jew, dir. Miguel Angel Nieto, 2004

    Sefarad, dir. Rodrigo Santos, 2019

     

    Fall Public Events 2022

    13 Drivers’ Licenses exhibit and public lecture

    October 24th through October 25th

    Public lecture with Lisa Salko: October 25th at 6:30 pm (reception to follow)

    Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch’s Performing Arts Center (BPAC)

    A tribute to Baruch Distinguished Professor Grace Schulman, on the occasion of her retirement and the launch of her new book: Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2002

    November 3rd at 6:00 pm

    Engleman Recital Hall, Baruch’s Performing Arts Center (BPAC)

    Zikkaron Kristallnacht: A Family Story, dir. Eugene Marlow, 2015

    An in-person talk back with Baruch Professor Eugene Marlow following the screening

    November 10th at 6:00 pm

    A reading with Roslyn Bernstein, Baruch Professor Emerita, and author of the novel, The Girl Who Counted Numbers

    This event will be Professor Bernstein’s first public reading for The Girl Who Counted Numbers

    December 8th at 6:00 pm on Zoom

    2022-2023 Film Series: Discovering Crypto-Jewish Identities

    Fall titles, free 48-hour streaming access 

    Children of the Inquisition, dir. Joseph Lovett, 2019: October 12th and 13th

    Sefarad, dir. Rodrigo Santos, 2019: November 9th and November 10th

    1618, dir. Luis Ismael, 2021: December 7th and December 8th

    Spring Public Events 2022

    Jess Solomon and Eman El-Husseini, the El Salomons: a married Jewish-Palestinian lesbian comedy couple

    February 24th at 7:00 EST pm on Zoom

    Public lecture with Dr. Madga Teter

    Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and Professor of History, Fordham University

    March 30th at 6:30 pm EST on Zoom

    Jewish/Latinx Film Series: Spring titles, free 48-hour streamings

    co-sponsored by Black and Latinx Studies, the Initiative for the Study of Latin America (ISLA) and

    Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC)

    February: El Brindis, Chile, directed by Shai Agosin, 2007

    March: La Amiga, Argentina, directed by Jeanine Meerapfel, 1988

    talk-back with the director following the streaming!

    April: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Brazil, directed by Cao Hamburger, 2006

     *exact dates and times for spring films, TBA

    Co-sponsored with Baruch’s New Media Artspace, Spring Semester visiting artist: Pinar Yolacan

    Public artist lecture by Pinar Yolacan, Tuesday, April 5, 2022 from 6:30 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. via Zoom, RSVP here.

    Born in Ankara, Turkey in 1981, Pinar Yolacan studied fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Fine Art Media in Chelsea School of Art before graduating from The Cooper Union with a BFA in 2004. Yolacan had solo shows at YKY in Istanbul, Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos, and Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm. Since 1997, reviews about her work regularly appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, ArtReview, Bidoun, Dutch, Rolling Stone and i-D magazines. Yolacan’s work is in the permanent collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and International Center of Photography in New York. Yolacan lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

    For More Information

    Contact jewish.studies.center@baruch.cuny.edu

    Dr. Jessica Lang, Co-Director
    jessica.lang@baruch.cuny.edu
    Office: Newman Vertical Campus, 7-24

    Dr. Sarah Valente, Co-Director
    sarah.valente@baruch.cuny.edu
    Office: 136 E. 25th Street, #1008

    Dr. Carina Pasquesi, Managing Director
    carina.pasquesi@baruch.cuny.edu
    Office: 136 E. 25th Street, #1008

     

     

    Give to JS

    Please type “JSC” in the notify section.
    Thank you for your support!



    • Contact Us
    • About Our Site
    • Privacy
    • Site Map
    • Text Only
    Baruch College | One Bernard Baruch Way
    55 Lexington Avenue (at 24th Street) | New York, NY 10010
    646-312-1000
    CUNY logo
    CUNY logo