Resources for Community
Join us in Intercultural Conversation and Education
At the Center for Judaic Studies, we work with organizations across Colorado to give students and community members meaningful learning opportunities. We regularly partner with campus and community groups on a variety of interfaith programs and initiatives as we work to further our commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and Holocaust Awareness Institute also regularly organize events for the community, on and off campus.
Upcoming Center for Judaic Studies Events
Monday, January 27, 2025
The 22nd Annual Fred & Audrey Friedman Marcus Holocaust Lecture presents "The Return From The Other Planet"
Documentary film screening and discussion with director Assaf Lapid
Survivor and author Yehiel De-Nur shaped the way readers worldwide imagined the Holocaust. Increasingly haunted by his experience in Auschwitz, De-Nur underwent experimental psychiatric treatment with LSD to confront the source of his trauma and find a way to return to life.
- 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. MT
- Elaine Wolf Theatre, 350 S Dahlia St, Denver, CO, 80246
Sunday, February 2, 2025
The RMJHS Book Club is reading "Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream"
Join RMJHS at the Golda Meir House for a discussion of acclaimed author Francine Klagsbrun's biography of Hadassah founder and Zionist trailblazer Henrietta Szold, and a tour of the museum with director Lena Fishman.
RSVP to joshua.furman@du.edu
- 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. MT
- Golda Meir House Museum, Auraria Campus, 1148 9th Street, Denver, CO 80204
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Antisemitism in American History: Perspectives from the Archives with Dr. Britt Tevis
RMJHS welcomes Dr. Britt Tevis (Syracuse University) for a virtual talk with a fresh historical perspective on antisemitism in the United States using archival materials created between 1654 and 2024 from across the country.
- 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. MT
- Attend virtually via Zoom
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Exodus: One Story, Two Communities
CJS and the Spirituals Project present a concert celebrating Jewish and African American faith and freedom, and the importance of the Exodus narrative. Following the concert, RMJHS Director Dr. Joshua Furman will participate in a talkback on the significance of the Exodus story for the Jewish and the African American communities.
- 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. MT
- Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Gates Concert Hall
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin
The Lamont Symphony Orchestra presents Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin. This concert-drama conceived and created by Maestro Murry Sidlin tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) who performed Verdi’s Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. Defiant Requiem combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimony from survivors of the original Terezín chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt. Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Awareness Institute.
- 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. MT
- Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Gates Concert Hall
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Behind the Podcast: The Nightingale of Iran
RMJHS welcomes Galeet and Danielle Dardashti, creators of the award-winning audio documentary The Nightingale of Iran, which explores their family’s musical journey from Iran to Israel to the United States. Presented in partnership with the Mizel Arts & Culture Center.
Registration page coming soon!
- 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. MT
- JCC Elaine Wolf Theatre, 350 S Dahlia St, Denver CO 8024
Learn with us
Interested in exploring Judaic studies? If you're over the age of 60, you can audit undergraduate courses, including our interdisciplinary Judaic Studies courses, through DU's Senior Audit program. The cost to audit a course is $100.
Due to COVID-19, the University has suspended all community audit programs; however, they will resume as soon as it is safe to do so.
You can audit Judaic Studies courses exploring literature, history, philosophy and religious studies.
Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and the Beck Archives Keep the Stories Alive
Resources for Teachers
We know that the Holocaust is a difficult yet critical subject to teach. We partner with Colorado Holocaust Educators (CHE) to offer training and resources to support you as you teach about the Holocaust.
If you want to learn about upcoming education opportunities, email us at hai@du.edu. We also encourage you to access the training at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
We're making Holocaust survivor stories accessible through an interactive educational website to support the new Holocaust and genocide education mandate for Colorado public schools. This website, Witness to History, will feature profiles of survivors who eventually made Colorado their home, and will integrate these profiles into the historical timeline of the Holocaust and into maps for geographic context. Witness to History draws on the archival resources of the Holocaust Awareness Institute and Beck Archives, among other sources.
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