GALE LECTURES / 2023-2024

“Contesting Racial Status during the Holocaust: A Survival Strategy?”

Dr. Rebecca Rossen

Department of Theater and Dance, College of Fine Arts

"Moving Memories: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Dance"

The Rapoport Fellows Program is intended to support a wide variety of scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies. Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin appointed as Rapoport Fellows are awarded up to two course releases, spread across two long semesters in a given academic year (reduction to a 1-1 teaching load), during which they conduct research on a topic related to Jewish Studies. All Rapoport Fellows will present some aspect of their work during the year in which they hold the fellowship at an event sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies.

Congratulations to the 2023-24 Rapoport Fellows!

Thank YOU for honoring Bob Abzug!

Update on the campaign to create The Robert H. Abzug Scholarship in Jewish Studies

The Schusterman Center’s campaign to establish a scholarship endowment in honor of Dr. Robert H. Abzug, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies, Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies, and Founding Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies is in its final phase pending approval by the Board of Regents.

A committee of friends and colleagues worked hard to honor Bob and support our students by raising $50,000 to endow this scholarship. Together we met this goal! Mickey Klein has generously agreed to match this amount, enabling us to establish the scholarship at $100,000.

The Robert H. Abzug Scholarship in Jewish Studies will provide scholarship support for undergraduate students, with a preference towards students pursuing a thesis, research project,