Archived News

• Sinnreich offers insight into story about Oak Ridge man facing deportation for his role as a German concentration camp guard
• Helene Sinnreich is interviewed about her research by WUOT for Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Andrews Invests in Jewish Education
• Helene Sinnreich article on "White House Press Secretary Mangles Holocaust History" (The Commercial Appeal, Sunday, April 16, 2017)
• Judaic Studies faculty member Daniel Magilow's op ed on politics today and Anne Frank
• UT Graduate in Judaic Studies, Lily Dropkin, visits Israel
• Judaic Studies Minor, Taylor Thomas, visits Albright Institute in Israel
• Tina Shepardson named Scholar of the Week
• VIDEO: Webcast of Justin Cammy "Scriptures of Modernity: On Modern Jewish Literature"
• VIDEO: Webcast of Michael Brenner "The Idea of a Jewish State from Herzl to Netanyahu"
• New audio lecture by UT Judaic Studies Committee member
• Gilya Schmidt honored with 2014 Faculty Academic Outreach Award
• Professor of Religious Studies Tina Shepardson named Quest Scholar of the Week
• Erin Darby & Gilya Schmidt create a partnership for community education
• Fern and Manny Steinfeld honored by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum with a National Leadership Award
• Student Tami Newsom honored by the Department of Religious Studies in the 4th Annual Awards Ceremony with the Judaic Studies Award
• VIDEO: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Maestro Lucas Richman lecture
• Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Maestro Lucas Richman lectures on renowned composer Ernest Bloch
• Professor Gilya Schmidt celebrates two decades at helm of Judaic Studies and recent book on rural German Jewry
• NEW FOR FALL 2013 - Modern Hebrew Language Course
• Biblical Hebrew Course available in Fall 2013
• Nancy Henry, Professor of English, receives 2013 Research and Creative Achievement Award
• Professor Andrea Berlin: “New Light on the Period of the Maccabees: Excavations at Tel Kedesh"
• Azizah Y. al-Hibri Lecture, Sept. 21, 7pm: Arabic Civilization and the Founding Fathers: A Fresh Examination
• Ruth Weisberg Lecture, Nov. 1, 7pm: Historical and Contemporary Jewish Identity in Art
• Judeo-Arabic Linguistics Expert, Benny Hari, to Speak at UT Aug. 29
• Nancy Henry’s book, The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography, was published by Wiley- Blackwell in 2012
• The Department of Religious Studies and the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies are the recipients of the third Schusterman Visiting Israel Professor for 2010-2011
• The Department of Religious Studies and the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies received a private gift to fund the Diane and Guilford Glazer and Lea and Allen Orwitz Teaching Fellow in Modern Hebrew for 2010-2011