Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, UWM

08/30/2026

Looking forward to hearing Lisa Silverman, Professor of History & Jewish Studies at UWM, talk about her new book, THE POSTWAR ANTISEMITE: CULTURE & COMPLICITY AFTER THE HOLOCAUST, at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center on September 15th, 7 - 8:15 pm.

From large scale partnered programs to small moments of holiday parties, see what’s coming up at the JCC.

08/04/2026

Check out this wonderful interview with Nora Rubel about her new book and then join us at Boswell Book Company on October 7th, 5 pm, to hear Nora Rubel in conversation with Carroll University Professor Lilly Goren. UWM Library archivist Abigail Nye will also be bringing a few items from UWM's Lizzie Black Kander collection. Sure to be a fascinating event!

Pioneering Jewish social activist Lizzie Kander turned a recipe book she made for new immigrants in Milwaukee into the most successful charitable cookbook in American history. A new book examines the impact of “The Settlement Cook Book” for generations of women.

07/13/2026

Hope to see you on Sunday, July 19th at 4 pm!

We're delighted to be cosponsoring this event at Boswell Book Company. Joel Greenberg will be sharing his latest book, TO LIFE: JEWS EXPLORING NATURE in which he explores the Jewish relationship with nature by illuminating significant Jewish thinkers who changed our understanding of the world around us.

Greenberg’s rich biographical sketches spotlight great Jewish scientists who not only made major contributions to the study of the natural world but also led rich and colorful lives: botanist and spy Aaron Aaronsohn, zoologist Libbie Henrietta Hyman, infamous ornithologist Nathan Leopold, mammalogist Philip Hershkovitz, arachnologist Herbert Levi, herpetologist H***n Marx, public health entomologist Andrew Spielman, and ecologist Joan Ehrenfeld. These individuals manifested different aspects of Jewish identity - some observant, some secular - but all were affected in one way or another by their being Jewish.

Boswell Book Company - 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI

04/07/2026

We are delighted to have Dr. Amanda Ruppenthal Stein teaching a new course for us in Fall 2026! American Jewish Culture & History Through Music. Dr. Amanda Ruppenthal Stein holds a PhD in Musicology from Northwestern University and we can't wait for our students to learn from her! Fully online and open to students from other universities, with permission from the home institution.

04/07/2026

We are delighted to have two new courses for Fall 2026! First up, Q***r Religions, taught by Dr. Max Thornton, who holds a PhD in Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion from Drew University. Taught in partnership with UWM's LGBT Studies program. Fully online and open to students at other universities with permission from their home institution. Don't miss this opportunity to learn with Dr. Thornton!

03/25/2026

We were thrilled to welcome Nicolet High School students to campus last week! Our dual enrollment program with Nicolet Hebrew courses lets students earn college credit while still in high school.

02/23/2026

This Wednesday! Hope to see you there.

Book Launch: Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture & Complicity After the Holocaust"

Lisa Silverman in Conversation with Alan Singer

Decades before the N**i persecution of the Jews would emerge as a master moral paradigm of evil in popular culture, the constructed Antisemite became part of a forceful narrative structure that allowed stereotypes about Jews to persist, even as explicit antisemitism became taboo. In the recently released The Postwar Antisemite, Lisa Silverman examines the crucial development and implications of the figural Antisemite in a range of events in Austria, Germany, and the United States including the trials of N**i star director Veit Harlan for crimes against humanity, the works of authors Anna Seghers and Rudolf Brunngraber, and films including Gentleman’s Agreement. Join us at Boswell for an important conversation about this history and what it reveals about antisemitism.

Register for event: lisasilvermanmke.eventbrite.com
https://uwm.edu/jewish-studies/event/book-launch-lisa-silverman-the-postwar-antisemite-culture-complicity-after-the-holocaust/

02/12/2026

This Sunday! 3:30 PM, Union Cinema. Talkback with Prof. Carolyn Eichner, Dept of History, following the film.

Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released, the film follows seven surviving comrades of the executed members, found guilty of “terrorism”, from the immigrant section of the French Resistance during World War II. The documentary provoked unsettling debates about how the group was captured, and about why the French establishment (and history books) never fully embraced the immigrant and Jewish fighters who were the backbone of armed resistance in Paris. The film provides a powerful corrective to myths concerning the French Resistance.

Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program & co-sponsored by the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies & the Department of History

Sunday, February 15 • 3:30pm Des “terroristes” à la retraite (“Terrorists” in Retirement) Mosco Levi Boucault, DCP, 71 min France, 1983 (French) 1983 Cannes Film Festival & 2020 Cinéma du Réel Too controversial to be shown on French TV when