Recent Events
Saint Leo University Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies and the Florida Holocaust Museum
"Eli's Story and the Catholic Reaction to the Holocaust"
Co-presenter with Dr. Burton Rochelson, Saint Petersburg, Florida, April 27, 2023.
University of Connecticut-Stamford
"Eli's Story: Narrative and Memory Across Two Generations"
April 18, 2023.
Limmud 2023 New Orleans
“Israel Zangwill's The Melting-Pot (1908):
The Play that Tried to Change History”
March 2023
The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton (UK)
Zangwill and his Legacies
Participant and Roundtable Presenter in this all-day Zoom conference, September 14, 2022
Center for Jewish History (online)
Family Affairs: Ashkenazi & Sephardi Personal Histories
Meri-Jane Rochelson and Devin Naar in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun
The link to this program is now available HERE.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:00 p.m.
In a series of discussions with leading scholars of modern Jewish history and the Holocaust, the new "Family Affairs" series at the Center for Jewish History explores researching and writing about Jewish experience from a distinctively personal perspective.
Despite their different disciplinary approaches and geographic scope, what these scholars share is the challenge of life-writing about close relatives. How does this experience change their thinking about Jewish history and their experience of writing it? What do these family affairs reveal to them in different ways?
New York Public Library (online)
Doc Chat: Doc Chat Episode 7: Listening to and Reading Holocaust Testimony
The link to this program is now available HERE.
Thursday, October 22, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
End times are approximate. Events may end early or late.
Doc Chat is a program series that digs deep into the stories behind the Library’s most interesting collections and highlights ways that teachers can incorporate them into the classroom.
In Episode 7, NYPL's Lyudmila Sholokhova is joined by Meri-Jane Rochelson, Professor Emerita at Florida International University, to discuss the oral history of Dr. Rochelson's father, Eli G. Rochelson, part of the American Jewish Committee's Oral History Collection at NYPL. They will approach Dr. Eli Rochelson's interview as an essential primary source documenting the horrors of the Holocaust experience and the strength of spiritual resistance, and they will discuss how Holocaust survivors adjusted to American life.
Educators, scholars, students, and all primary source lovers are welcome to join this lively conversation. Each 30-minute episode takes place online.
Limmud 2020 Miami, February 23, 2020
“The Play that Tried to Change History:
Israel Zangwill's The Melting-Pot "
Miami Jewish Film Festival
At the Festival, Online
In Conversation: Return from the Other Planet
A conversation with Assaf Lapid, director/screenwriter of Return from the Other Planet, January 2024
The link to this program should be available after January 18, 2024.
In Conversation: The Adventures of Saul Bellow
A conversation wtih Asaf Galay, writer/director/producer of The Adventures of Saul Bellow, January 2022
The link to this program is available HERE.
In Conversation: My Dearest Enemy
A conversation wtih Tzipi Trope, writer/director/producer of My Dearest Enemy, April 2021
The link to this program is available HERE.
At the Festival, In Person
Introduced the 1939 Yiddish film Tevya, January 19, 2020
Introduced the film Tevye's Daughters, January 14, 2018
Introduced the film Song of Songs, January 27, 2016
College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Jewish Studies, English, and History
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
“Israel Zangwill's The Melting-Pot (1908):
The Play that Tried to Change History”
March 18, 2019
113 Allen Hall
3:00 p.m.
The English Department at FIU,
the Holocaust Studies Initiative, and
the Center for Women's and Gender Studies
present a book launch with signing and reception for
Eli's Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life
by Meri-Jane Rochelson
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL
Sunday, October 7, 2018
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Miami Book Fair
Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
300 NE 2nd Avenue,
Miami, FL 33132
Saturday, November 17, 2018
5:00-6:00 p.m.
University Press Panel
Building 8, Room 8201
Sunday, November 18, 2018
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Eli's Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life
Centre Gallery, Building 1, 3rd floor
The Chaim Yakov Shlomo College of Jewish Studies
and The Shul
"Israel Zangwill: The First Anglo-Jewish Celebrity," lecture followed by a seminar discussion with CYS students on Zangwill's story "The Jewish Trinity"
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The Shul, Surfside, FL
7:00 p.m.
The Jewish Book Council, sponsored by Michael-Ann Russell JCC, Beth Torah, Temple Sinai, and numerous other Northeast Miami-Dade synagogues and organizations
Meet the Author:
A Talk on Eli's Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life
Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus
Monday, March 4, 2019
7:30 p.m.
I would love to speak at your college, university, or community group. Please contact me at rochelso@fiu.edu.