Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity In conjunction with the University of California, Santa Cruz June 30 – July 2, 2014 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Attending the workshop is by invitation only Summer Workshop Program Contemporary globalization brings to […]

Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, sixty-five years later, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp's Communist-led […]

Professor Kenneth Waltzer  is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University.  His interests cover American social and political history, including urban, labor, and minority history, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere, and modern Jewish history, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current […]

Rabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities, Journal for Jewish Culture & Identity. He also serves as the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Har Adar. His main fields of research are: The wisdom […]

The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography, it pays close attention to a variety of texts, visual images, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment […]

The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents: Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding" Dr. Hedwig C. Rose, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University, was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After her father, his five brothers […]

Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections. UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. The manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at […]

Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, the New School for Social Research and the University of Kansas. Boyarin received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998, after receiving his […]