Ethnic Studies Resources at CUNY

Center for Jewish Studies

The Center for Jewish Studies serves as a scholarly hub for faculty involved in Jewish Studies across academic departments at the Graduate Center and all of CUNY to connect and collaborate on research projects. The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Institute for Sephardic Studies fall under the umbrella of the Center for Jewish Studies. The Institute of Sephardic Studies is home to a notable oral history collection that documents the narratives of Sephardic Jewish immigrants to the United States.

Contact: Center for Jewish Studies

• Address: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, Room 5380, New York, NY 10016
• Email: gccenterjewishstudies@gmail.com

Contact: Jane S. Gerber, Professor Emerita and Director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies

• Address: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, Room 5114.03, New York, NY 10016
• Email: gerberjs@aol.com
• Phone: 212-817-1946

Center for Jewish Studies

The Queens College Center for Jewish Studies creates a space for academic discourse about Judaism and Jewish history and culture. Its work and programming, including film screenings, lectures, and performance, bridge the gap between the formal academic unit dedicated to Jewish Studies at Queens College and the broader Jewish community.

Contact: Arnold Franklin, Professor and Director

• Address (Center for Jewish Studies):Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Jefferson Hall, Room 306–310, Flushing NY 11367
• Email: arnold.franklin@qc.cuny.edu
• Phone(s): 718-997-4530, 718-997-5730

Access: Center for Jewish Studies hours are Monday–Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm.

Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

The Kupferberg Holocaust Center is a “learning laboratory” that transcends the conventional function of a library, archive, or museum. The Center originally housed a library of 5,000 books, audiovisual oral history interviews of more than 300 Holocaust survivors, and other documents and artifacts; their collection has since grown and is now preserved in a dedicated building with exhibit space on the campus of Queensborough Community College.

Contact: Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center

• Address: 222-05 56th Ave, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY 11364
• Email: khc@qcc.cuny.edu
• Phone: 718-281-5770

Access: Circulating and reference collections accessible via Queensborough Community College Library.

• Regular semester hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 A.M.–5:00 P.M.

Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC)

The objective of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center is to stimulate scholarly production about the Middle East and by Middle Eastern Americans. The Center was responsible for developing a Master’s Program in Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2008. MEMEAC also provides research support through workshops and their Dissections seminar series, administers fellowships, and coordinates dissertation writing groups.

Contact: Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center

• Address: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, Room 6304.24, New York, NY 10016
• Email: memeac@gc.cuny.edu

Contact: Beth Baron, Distinguished Professor and Director

• Email: bbaron@gc.cuny.edu
• Phone: 212-817-7574

Contact: Jeremy Randall, Assistant Program Officer (Middle Eastern Studies) and Assistant Director, mestudies@gc.cuny.edu