Register For Events

Below you can find Jewish Studies Program events that can be registered for online. Choose the event you wish to RSVP for and fill out the proceding form. If you have any questions or issues, please contact the Jewish Studies Program via at jstud@uic.edu or 312-413-2102.

• Register for Sergio DellaPergola event. (Click here.) - 10/20/2009
  “Israel and World Jewry in the 21st Century: Close Family or Distant Relatives?” Sergio DellaPergola is the S. Argov Professor in Israel Diaspora Relations at the Hebrew Univer-sity’s Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry and former Institute Chairman. A specialist on the demography of world Jewry, he has published numerous books and over one hundred papers on historical demography, the family, international migration and absorption, Jewish identity and projections in the Diaspora and Israel. In the Jewish Journal of May 15, 2008, DellaPergola stated: “Israel at 60 faces three major challenges: identity, technology and politics. …[T]he main challenge will be whether Israel can strengthen internal and transnational Jewish cultural bonds to preserve some consen-sus among the Jewish people.” Please join the Jewish Studies Program together with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago in welcoming our third annual Visiting Israel Scholar on Tuesday, October 20 at 6:00 PM in the Cardinal Room of the Student Center East at 750 S. Halsted Street.
  
  
• REGISTER FOR: Hasia Diner, PhD (Click here.) - 11/19/2009
  Professor Diner received her PhD in History from the UIC, her MA from the University of Chicago and has strong ties to the Chicago Jewish community. A major contributor of research for and appeared in the PBS Televsion Series, The Jewish Americans, her most recent publication, We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962 explores the controversy surrounding Jewish response or apparent lack of it in the post World War II milieu of the United States.
  
  Please join the Jewish Studies Program, together with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Association in welcoming our distinguished alumna home to UIC for this special event.
  
  
• Register for the Heinz Kounio event. (Click here.) - 11/04/2009
  “Reflections on the Life of the Jewish Community in Thessaloniki and the Holocaust” Heinz Kounio is a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and author of the book A Liter of Soup and Sixty Grams of Bread: The Diary of Prisoner Number 109565. “In Auschwitz and in its satellite concentration death camps more than one million Jews disappeared by unbelievably sadistic methods. Their only crime was that they belonged to the tribe of Israel..” -Heinz Kounio, Prisoner 109565 Please join the UIC Jewish Studies Program together with the Greek Community of Greater Chicago and many distinguished guests to welcome and honor Heinz Kounio to Chicago for this very special memorial event on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 6 p.m. to be held in the Illinois Room of the Student Center East at 750 South Halsted Street.