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Support the Bildner Center this Giving Tuesday! Your gift enables us to make a meaningful impact on campus and in the community, fostering engagement with Jewish identity, culture, and history. Gifts of all sizes help to sustain the Center's work as a vital educational and cultural resource.   DONATE NOW     UPCOMING VIRTUAL PROGRAMS Free and open to the public     MINI-COURSE STARTS TOMORROW! Racial Passing: Efforts to Belong and Assimilate in the United States Donavan L. Ramon, Bildner Visiting Scholar Wednesdays, Nov. 29, Dec. 6 & 13, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. From the moment the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they were interested not only in who belonged in the United States, but also in who did not. This mini-course will explore African American and Jewish literary texts that engage issues of racial passing and belonging in the United States. Readings for the first session are now posted on the event webpage.   Register Here     How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook Karina Urbach, University of London Monday, December 4, 1:00 p.m. Alice Urbach, a renowned Viennese chef, was forced to flee to England in 1938 after the German occupation of Austria. When she returned to Vienna in the late 1940s, she discovered that her bestselling cookbook had been Aryranized and published under a non-Jewish name. Eighty years later, her granddaughter Karina Urbach set out to reclaim her grandmother’s work.    Register Here