Events
Center for Jewish Studies
Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out by anti-Communist forces. A minority of Jews went so far as […]
Todd Presner: “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities" With more than 52,000 testimonies, 100,000+ hours of video footage, and a database of some 6 million records, the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive is the largest archive of Holocaust testimony in […]
Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT PODCAST: This conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and time. We bring together representations of the ghetto in art, literature, and photography while embracing the possibilities of digital methodologies. By conceiving of the ghetto […]
Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
Humanities 2, Room 259Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination. Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment. Katie Trostel,"Shifting Zones of Memory": Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín's Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)” […]
Shaul Bassi: “Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016”
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the work of Jewish Venetian poet Sarra Copia Sullam (1592-1641), as well as contemporary poetry and fiction that reimagines the Ghetto for the global present. Shaul […]
Hedy Rose: “My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. Following her father's arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian samaritan. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y Reception will follow at 8pm. $4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts For […]
Joel Kaminsky: “Does God Play Favorites?: A Dialogue on Chosenness in Genesis”
Porter College, Room 144Professor Kaminsky will explore various motifs surrounding the theme of special divine favor toward certain individuals and groups that pervades Genesis in hopes of illuminating these often troubling narratives. The talk will be conducted as a dialogue prompted by questions raised by Professor Nathaniel Deutsch and the students in his course. Joel S. Kaminsky is […]
Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Wednesday, November 4, Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled "Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer." Professor Lang's many books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (University of Chicago Press, 1990), The Anatomy of Philosophical Style (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Holocaust Representation: Art within […]
Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference." In conflicts over the veil or the return of antisemitism in France today, minority difference is often seen as a threat not only to public order but to the Republic itself. […]
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAn Interactive Panel Discussion and Presentation of Work for Faculty and Graduate Students in Jewish Studies Featuring Rachel Deblinger CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, UC Santa Cruz Ari Y. Kelman Chair in Education and Jewish Studies, Stanford University Francesco Spagnolo Curator, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Lecturer, Department of Music, […]