March 29 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm On March 29-30, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the School of Performing Arts welcome renowned conductor Murry Sidlin for a film screening and lecture as part of the 2022-23 MHC symposium on Recovery, Rediscovery, and Resilience. On Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 pm in Minsky Recital Hall, Murry Sidlin will […]
On March 29-30, the McGillicuddy Humanities Center and the School of Performing Arts welcome renowned conductor Murry Sidlin for a film screening and lecture as part of the 2022-23 MHC symposium on Recovery, Rediscovery, and Resilience. On Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 pm in Minsky Recital Hall, Murry Sidlin will host a screening of the film Defiant […]
Join UMaine Judaic Studies, and Maine Jewish Film Festival for a screening of "My Name is Andrea" followed by a panel discussion with Tamar Perfit Mathieu ( Rape Response Services & Penquis) and Amanda Cost (Partners for Peace), moderated by Derek A. Michaud (UMaine Judaic Studies). "The story of controversial feminist writer and public intellectual […]
Commemorates liberation of Israelites by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under leadership of Moses. * Work is prohibited on first and last two days.
Join us on April 17th as we mark Yom HaShoah with a public lecture by Professor Anne Knowles on "Landscapes of Remembrance." There are now thousands of Holocaust memorials around the world, from the vast grounds of former concentration camps to the palm-size “stumbling stones” that mark where individuals last lived before they were deported […]
FOUR WINTERS: A Story of Jewish Resistance during World War II A film by Julia Mintz "A stunning, heartfelt narrative of heroism and resilience" (Lincoln Center, NYJFF). In this moving documentary, the last surviving Jewish partisans tell the little-known story of their four years in the forests of Ukraine and Poland, who organized to sabotage […]
UMaine Judaic Studies is proud to present an evening with Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, Executive Director of the Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College. The spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville, Maine, and Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond chair in Jewish Studies at Colby, Rabbi Isaacs, was named one of “America’s Most […]