Latest Past Events

Those Who Returned and Those Who Did Not: Opening Program

Buley Library SCSU, 377 Fitch St, New Haven

The Judaic Studies Program and Buley Library are honored to present this exhibit for Southern Connecticut State University’s Holocaust Memorial. Originally titled “ne(Návraty),” the exhibit was created at the Museum of Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic, where it was first exhibited in spring 2025. The striking exhibit tells the stories of eight Jewish families […]

Free

Meeting the Moment Session 4: “Concealed”

Congregation Or Shalom 205 Old Grassy Hill Rd, Orange

An American-born daughter’s memoir of her Iranian-Jewish parents’ experience emigrating to the U.S. from the Iranian city of Mashhad. Location: Congregation Or Shalom Speaker: Esther Amini, author, painter, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Full Series: $36  |  Individual Sessions: $18 Covers admission for up to 2 household members – Light refreshments will be served   This is […]

Stories of a City: New Haven’s Jewish Writers in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Mitchell Public Library 37 Harrison St, New Haven

Nicole Zador, archivist at the Jewish Historical Society, will present a look at New Haven’s early Jewish writers. Using books, newspaper clippings, and photographs from the archives, she’ll highlight the journalists, poets, and novelists from the mid-1800s to the late 1900s who helped shape Jewish cultural life in the city and beyond. Register here!