"Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" Join us as Devin E. Naar, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, traces three key moments in the development of Sephardic Studies libraries and archives in the 1880s, 1930s, and today. Often relying on community members to supply […]

The story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now, historians have ignored the experiences of men and women from France and the French Empire who were not sympathetic to De Gaulle and the Free French, but who […]

The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents: Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem"  The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue, has yielded many unexpected finds, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the […]

Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts, not only on their own, but in conversation with […]

UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo.   Event Photos: by Crystal Birns Join us for "UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie" at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History As we mark the centennial of the […]

This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco from the interwar period though to independence (achieved in 1956) and beyond. It is structured around one central question: how Moroccan Jews see themselves as emancipated citizens in a future independent Moroccan state? From a period of ideological porosity during the interwar period, through the […]

Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the: Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UC Santa Cruz Sunday, January 22, 2017 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served RSVP HERE RSVP by January 6, 2017 Questions? Contact Jessica Guild at (831) 459-1274 or jguild@ucsc.edu   HONOREES Professor Murray Baumgarten […]