BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122025 CREATED:20180124T214742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T171107Z UID:10005445-1525363200-1525368600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Devin Naar: “Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility" DESCRIPTION:“Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility” \nJoin 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 source materials\, these archiving efforts have legitimized and rendered more visible the often-marginalized Sephardic experience. Professor Naar’s work demonstrates how digital humanities initiatives can draw upon methods and aspirations of previous generations while also providing new possibilities and opportunities in the 21st century. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Associate Professor in the department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As the founder and chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Naar oversees the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection\, which has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, won a National Jewish Book Award and the Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-diaspora-new-approaches-sephardi-north-african-jewish-studies/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Naar_Webbanner_R3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T133000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20180118T181104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T184337Z UID:10006583-1518696000-1518701400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Daniel Lee: "A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two" DESCRIPTION: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 nonetheless fought in Britain for the allied cause. In the same vein\, existing scholarship has not explored how North African Jews\, persecuted by Vichy antisemitic laws\, sought to re-integrate into the new structures that emerged following the allied liberation of North Africa in November 1942. This talk will re-examine these dual phenomena through the unlikely lens of the village of Elvington in Yorkshire and the diary of a North African Jewish airman stationed there\, whose story reveals a new Sephardi perspective on World War Two. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDaniel Lee is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. Before joining Sheffield in 2015\, Lee was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Brasenose College\, Oxford. His first book\, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime\, 1940–1942 was published with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research\, the European University Institute\, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker\, Lee is a regular broadcaster on radio. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-jewish-studies-daniel-lee/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Daniel-Lee-Poster-2.15.18.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20170918T175243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T204556Z UID:10006537-1510077600-1510084800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Freedom\, Justice\, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now DESCRIPTION:Event Video:\n \nFreedom\, Justice\, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now 11.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nKarin Coonrod\, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari\, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover why Shakespeare’s play about Jews and Christians in Renaissance Italy is a key text for deciding how to be free and just in the global society we inhabit now. With introductory remarks by Mike Ryan (Santa Cruz Shakespeare) and Murray Baumgarten. \nDoors open at 6:00pm \nEvent begins at 6:30pm \nRSVP Appreciated\, Seating is first come\, first serve. Overflow space will be available. \nPlease RSVP for the event here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the IHR at ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nSponsored by Institute for Humanities Research\, Center for Jewish Studies\, Shakespeare Workshop\, Porter College\, and Arts Division. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/freedom-justice-difference-the-merchant-of-venice-now-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Freedom_Final_A.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20170809T175937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T175937Z UID:10005390-1509638400-1509645600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem" DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents:\nMarina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”  \nThe 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 archives of the Fatimid caliphs (969–1171). How did papers from a state archive in Cairo find their way into the hands of the Jewish scribes who reused them as scrap paper for compositions in Hebrew script? Did Jews who handled government documents know what they were looking at? This is a period from which only a tiny number of documents is believed to have survived. The very abundance and ubiquity of documentation in the Geniza suggest otherwise\, and have much to say about the largest Jewish community in the medieval world and about the culture of legal and political rights in the Middle East. \nEvent Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nMarina Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of History at Princeton University\, where she also directs the Princeton Geniza Lab. She is the author of Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (2008). In 2015\, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. \n  \nEvery year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event is made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \n  \nPlease direct any questions or disability accommodation requests to ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-1274. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marina-rustov-the-cairo-geniza-and-the-middle-easts-archive-problem-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Marina-Rustow-11.2.17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20170321T185337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T185337Z UID:10006481-1495720800-1495731600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Radical Jewish Politics Workshop DESCRIPTION: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 one another. Geographically\, these contexts include Iran\, Iraq\, Israel and Palestine\, Egypt\, Russia\, Hungary\, Egypt\, Morocco\, and the United States of America. Thematically\, these contexts include Queer Jewish histories within the left\, the contemporary Orthodox populations of New York City and reactionary politics\, interactions with Zionism and other nationalisms\, historiography and state memory\, and much more. \n2:00-5:00pm \nAfternoon Roundtable 1: Thematic conversation 1 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nAfternoon Roundtable 2: Thematic conversation 2 (including approximately 3-4 panelists) \nConcluding remarks \nDinner \nRSVP required – Please register for the event here \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, History Department\, Center for Cultural Studies\, and Institute for Humanities Research. \nScholar Bios: \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC\, and is the holder of the UC Presidential Baskin Foundation Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies\, and in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her most recent research has been a project on queering the history of the Communist Left in the United States. Her most recent book is a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel. A scholar-activist she was featured in the film Free Angela! and all political prisoners\, (2013). She also does work in Black feminist History\, and recently published a scholarly piece\, “The Pageantry of Shirley Graham’s Opera Tom-Tom” published in the journal Souls\, Fall 2016. \nOrit Bashkin is a historian who works on the intellectual\, social and cultural history of the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004)\, writing a thesis on Iraqi intellectual history under the supervision of Professors Robert Tignor and Samah Selim\, and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. Since graduation\, she has been working as a professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications deal with Iraqi history\, the history of Iraqi Jews\, the Arab cultural revival movement (the nahda) in the late 19th century\, and the connections between modern Arab history and Arabic literature.  Her current research project explores the lives of Iraqi Jews in Israel. Her books (published by Stanford University Press are): The Other Iraq\, Pluralism and Culture and Hashemite Iraq\, New Babylonians\, A history of Iraqi Jews\, and Impossible Exodus\, Iraqi Jews in Israel. At the University of Chicago\, she teaches classes on nationalism\, colonialism and postcolonialism in the Middle East\, on modern Islamic civilization\, and on Israeli history. \nJoel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt\, Palestine\, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East. \nArie M. Dubnov is the inaugural Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at George Washington University. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish and European intellectual history\, with emphasis on the history of political thought and nationalism studies. His current research examines the relationship and exchange of ideas between pre-1948 Zionist activists and British political thinkers. It seeks to place Jewish nationalism within the context of interwar neo-imperial thinking\, acknowledging a wide spectrum of intra-Zionist ideas ranging from pro-imperial\, federalist thinking to radical anti-colonial notions of struggle. \nPeter Kenez is Professor emeritus of history at UC Santa Cruz. He was one of the founding members of Stevenson College andhas taught and published widely on the history of the Soviet Union and related geopolitical questions. \nLior Sternfeld is an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is a social historian of the modern Middle East with particular interests in Jewish (and other minorities’) histories of the region. Sternfeld’s first book manuscript tentatively titled: “Integrated After All: Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Century\,” which examines the integration of the Jewish communities in Iran into the nation-building projects of the twentieth century\, is now under review. This book examines the development of the Iranian Jewish communities vis-à-vis ideologies and institutions such as Iranian nationalism\, Zionism\, and constitutionalism\, among others. His current research project examines the origins of “third-worldism” in the Middle East. \nBob Weinberg  is Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. He teaches Russian and European history and has published on the 1905 Revolution in Odessa\, anti-Jewish pogroms\, blood libel\, antisemitism in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union\, and Birobidzhan \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-jewish-politics-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Radical-Jewish-Politics_-Workshop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20161129T225731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T225731Z UID:10006432-1495648800-1495656000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie DESCRIPTION:UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo. \n  \nEvent Photos: by Crystal Birns\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nJoin us for “UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie” at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\nAs we mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution and the stunning electoral success of Bernie Sanders\, the revival of interest in socialism inspires this discussion of the history of radical Jewish Politics. \n  \nRSVP has closed – Due to an overwhelming response\, we are no longer accepting registrations to this event. However you are welcome to come to the Museum the night of the event and we will do our best to accommodate you if a sufficient number of people who have already RSVP’d are not in attendance. \n  \n6:00pm – Doors open\n6:30pm – Public Conversation with Tony Michels Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History; and Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire\, and the history of social movements. \nSanta Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH)\n705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radical-jewish-politics-2/ LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UC_MAH_Poster_2017_Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20170414T200429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T200429Z UID:10006496-1493222400-1493226000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews\, French Empire\, and Nationalisms in the 20th Century DESCRIPTION: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 anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy regime during WWII\, to the struggle for national liberation\, and finally\, the years of mass Jewish exodus and authoritarianism\, this talk pushes against teleological readings of Moroccan Jewish history and explores a previously obscured narrative of political possibility and radical roads not taken. \nAssistant Professor Alma Heckman\, History \nReception to Follow\nFor accessibitiy concerns\, contact pmreed@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-politics-of-belonging-moroccan-communist-jews-french-empire-and-nationalisms-in-the-20th-century-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Heckman-Talk-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20161209T012136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161209T012136Z UID:10006436-1487779200-1487784600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums DESCRIPTION:Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult\, often traumatic\, histories into museum exhibitions and invite audiences of all ages to contend with narratives of struggle\, oppression\, violence\, and silence. Digital content has connected these museums to audiences beyond Washington and created opportunities for synthesis\, remembrance and reflection. \nJoin us for a discussion between Angel Nieves (consultant for the “Power of Place” exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture) and Michael Berenbaum (project director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) about building museums\, engaging the public\, and representing difficult memories on the Washington Mall. They will examine the role of museums in today’s post-fact world and the potential for digital tools to reimagine how museums speak to their audiences. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nClick here for directions to Kresge Town Hall \nParking attendants will be selling $4 permits in the Core West parking lot. Anyone with an ADA placard should park in lot 142 behind Kresge College. \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies\, IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster\, and Digital Scholarship Commons\, with support from the Koret Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-space-difficult-history-curating-the-african-american-and-holocaust-museums-2/ LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170122T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170122T180000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20161129T211324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T211324Z UID:10006423-1485100800-1485108000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception DESCRIPTION:Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the: \nMurray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies \nInvestiture Ceremony and Reception \nCollege 9/10 Multipurpose Room\, UC Santa Cruz\nSunday\, January 22\, 2017 4 p.m.\nLight refreshments will be served \nRSVP HERE \nRSVP by January 6\, 2017\nQuestions? Contact Jessica Guild at (831) 459-1274 or jguild@ucsc.edu \n  \nHONOREES\nProfessor Murray Baumgarten \n \nProfessor Murray Baumgarten is a research professor of literature and distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at UC Santa Cruz. This chair honors Professor Baumgarten\, the person most responsible for today’s thriving Jewish Studies program and for founding the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. In 1967\, Professor Baumgarten co-founded the world-renowned Dickens Project\, and ten years ago\, with the help of the Helen Diller Family Foundation\, he established the Jewish Studies program. \n  \nProfessor Nathaniel Deutsch \n \nAs the director of the Center for Jewish Studies (CJS)\, Professor Nathaniel Deutsch is the inaugural chair holder of the Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. He is a professor of history at UC Santa Cruz and the director of the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research. His work focuses on the modern Jewish experience and its relationship to tradition. \n \nMurray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception Investiture Ceremony 1.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. \nEVENT PHOTOS: by URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/murray-baumgarten-endowed-chair-in-jewish-studies-2/ LOCATION:College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room\, College Ten\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/unnamed-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161114T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20161103T233040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T233040Z UID:10006419-1479144600-1479150000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clive Sinclair: "One City\, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home" DESCRIPTION:Event Podcast:\n \n  \n“In my time I have seen many Shylocks …..\n But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” \nClive Sinclair is the author of fourteen books; one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award\, another both the PEN Silver Pen and the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His fifteenth – a work in progress – is a collection of stories\, each orbiting the Merchant of Venice. He lives in London with the artist Haidee Becker. On the 21st of October his article on the Ghetto and the performance of Merchant of Venice and the mock trial of Shylock vs Antonio presided over by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was published in the London Times Literary Supplement. \nThe Ghetto of Venice by Clive Sinclair \nFree and open to the public \nSponsored by: Shakespeare Workshop\, Literature Department\, Center for Jewish Studies\, and the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clive-sinclair-one-city-seven-shylocks-venices-most-famous-son-comes-home-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Clive-Sinclair-flyer-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T114500 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20160405T190006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T190006Z UID:10005226-1461232800-1461239100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Tony Michels: "Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life” DESCRIPTION:The 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 to join the American Communist Part with the hope of replicating the Russian Revolution on American soil.   Although only a minority\, Communists put forward a persistently attractive alternative to the dominant model of Americanization\, according to which Jews ought to integrate into a liberal\, political order.   In the decades following the Russian Revolution\, American Jews moved between competing poles of Communism and liberalism and\, simultaneously\,  between competing ideals of universalism and Jewish particularity.  All the while\, Jews wrestled with the question of totalitarianism\, one of the most divisive questions of the twentieth century.   What was Soviet Russia?   Was it a daring social experiment that wedded scientific planning with ideals of equality in all areas of human endeavor?  Or was the Soviet Union a vast prison system built upon ruthless repression of the working class?  Over a four decade period\, from the outbreak of the Russian Revolution until the end of the Second World War\, a period framed by enormous catastrophes yet animated by utopian visions of social justice\, American Jews defined themselves in relation to the Soviet Union. \nTony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in American Jewish history\, with a special emphasis on immigration\, politics\, and comparative ethnic history\, as well as courses in labor history and radical political movements. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of the Jews. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005)\, winner of the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research\, and Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (2012). He is currently working on a book about the relationship of American Jews to Soviet Russia between the 1920s and 1960s. \n  \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tony-michels-soviet-america-the-russian-revolution-in-jewish-life-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tMichels.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20151202T221455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151202T221455Z UID:10005172-1456329600-1456336800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Todd Presner: "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities" DESCRIPTION:2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner\n“The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities” \nWith 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 the world. But more than an archive of eyewitness testimony\, it is also an information management system\, a patented digital library\, and a generalizable database for indexing and cataloguing genocide. This talk examines how forms of computation – specifically databases\, data structures\, algorithms\, and information visualizations – function as specific modes of historical emplotment that raise significant ethical questions. Through an investigation of the entirety of the Shoah Foundation’s database\, Presner shows how computational analysis can be “read against itself” in order to reveal certain assumptions and patterns in the data. In so doing\, he argues for the development of an “ethics of the algorithm” based on insights from the Jewish ethical tradition. The talk will combine his research in Holocaust Studies\, history/memory\, and Digital Humanities. \nTodd Samuel Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA\, where he is also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program. His most recent books are: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture\, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Harvard University Press\, 2016) and HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities\, with co-authors David Shepard and Yoh Kawano (Harvard University Press\, 2014).\nEvery year we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. This event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/todd-presner-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/UC_IHRDillrPoster_2016_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160223T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160223T183000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20151209T223142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T223142Z UID:10006315-1456229700-1456252200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory DESCRIPTION:EVENT PODCAST:\n \nThis 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 as a “memory space that travels” rather than as a static museal site we open up the constellation of representations in which the Ghetto of Venice is situated in the 21st century. \nProgram:\n12:15-1:00 PM – Opening Remarks: by Dean Tyler Stovall presented by Professor Murray Baumgarten\n“The Venice Ghetto at 500: Situating the Conversation” \n1:00-1:30 PM – Skype conversation with Marjorie Agosín\nQuestions and Answers. Closing with Poetry Reading\nKatie Trostel (Ph.D. Candidate in Literature\, University of California Santa Cruz) \n1:30-1:45 PM – Coffee Break\n1:45-3:15 PM – Panel #1: “The Ghetto as Theater”\nDr. Ariane Helou (University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Voice and Theatricality in Leone de’ Sommi’s Dialoghi.” \nDr. Samuel Arkin (Lecturer in Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Hath not a Jew a home? Shylock in Venice\, Venice in Shylock?” \nRespondent: Professor Emeritus Harry Berger\, Jr. (Literature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n3:15-3:30 PM – Coffee Break\n3:30-5:00 PM – Panel #2: “Mapping Liminal Jewish Space”\nAmanda Sharick (Ph.D. candidate in Literature\, University of California\, Riverside)\n“’Beating Vainly at Closed Doors’: Tracing and Transposing the Recurring Ghetto in the Works of Lady Katie Magnus\, Amy Levy and Israel Zangwill.” \nProfessor Alma Heckman (Professor of History and Jewish Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\n“Porosity and Transgression: Modern Understandings of the Moroccan Mellah and Jews Apart.” \nRespondent: Francesco Spagnolo (Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California\, Berkeley) \n5:00-5:15 PM – Break\n5:15-6:30 PM – Round Table Discussion “The Venice Ghetto at 500”: Moderated by Professor Murray Baumgarten\nDr. Rachel Deblinger (CLIR Post Doctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nProfessor Bruce Thompson (Jewish Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nProfessor Emeritus Peter Kenez (History\, University of California\, Santa Cruz)\nProfessor Nathaniel Deutsch (History\, University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n6:30 PM – Reception to follow\nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, the Literature Department\, and the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jewish-studies-conference-liminal-spaces-ii-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LimSpacesII_pstr_R1b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160210T133000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20151209T222735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T222735Z UID:10006314-1455105600-1455111000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer DESCRIPTION:Literature 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. \nSponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment.\n  \nKatie Trostel\,“Shifting Zones of Memory”: Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)”  \nThis digital mapping project centered on Marjorie Agosín’s Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004) stems from larger questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC; the group has undertaken the project of thinking through the meaning of the ghetto in the context of its 500th anniversary. Through digital mapping\, I trace the complexity of ways in which Jewish spaces\, including that of the ghetto\, are revisited\, re-inscribed\, entangled\, and recycled in Agosín’s poems\, as she simultaneously works through her experience of exile in the period of the Chilean post-dictatorship. The space of the ghetto\, as well as globalized Jewish spaces as a broader category\, are ways of thinking through the more expansive themes of exile\, displacement\, national belonging\, and exclusion. Through her prose-poems\, Agosín complicates the idea of a static geography\, weaving personal place-based memories into a complex web of Jewish sites of global significance. Reflecting upon her travels across four continents\, she explores both the category of exile and a certain longing for home. I use this work to think about the re-inscription of meanings of place\, and how sites of memory can come to embody overlapping stories that span both space and time. I question: How do these sites of memory travel? How can a digital representation of literary space help to visualize and make deeper the layers of history and tangled webs of place-based belonging encoded in the pages of Agosín’s text? \n  \nErica Smeltzer\, “Opening Gates and Ghettos: Digitally Mapping the Jewish Spaces of Prague” \nThis project uses a digital mapping platform to represent the many spatial characteristics attributed to Jewish experience: exile\, sequestration\, and diaspora. Beginning with the Jewish ghetto in Prague\, the “Story Map” will begin with Egon Erwin Kisch’s Tales from Seven Ghettos\, following the reportage as it describes place\, space\, and history in the Jewish quarter. This project evolved from the larger theoretical and comparative questions posed by the Venice Ghetto Working Group at UCSC. The group considers the Venice Ghetto “a memory space that travels.” In this spirit the digital map attempts to represent the intersections between stories of the ghetto\, their reiterations\, and the dispersal of their authors. In this way the mapping project begins with Egon Erwin Kisch\, but it does not end with him. The map slowly expands as his text touches on different nodes (legends\, landmarks\, and histories) and begins to oppose a purely insular vision of the ghetto through a specialized and expanding network of intertext. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mapping-liminal-spaces-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20151209T215605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T215605Z UID:10006309-1454083200-1454090400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Shaul Bassi: "Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto\, 1516-2016" DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nShaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and postcolonial literature at Ca’Foscari University of Venice. His research\, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare\, postcolonial studies (India and Africa)\, and Jewish studies. He has published Le metamorfosi di Otello. Storia di un’etnicità immaginaria (Grafis\, 2000) and edited an Italian critical edition of Otello (Marsilio\, 2009). Recent publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (with Laura Tosi\, Ashgate\, 2011)\, Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (with Annalisa Oboe\, Routledge\, 2011); Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place\, ‘Race’\, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming. He is currently involved in multiple literary and cultural projects related to the 500th anniversary of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016).\n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, Shakespeare Workshop\, Italian Studies\, Cowell College\, and the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shaul-bassi-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ShylockVsSophia-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T210000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20151209T204212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151209T204212Z UID:10005175-1453402800-1453410000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hedy Rose: "My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam\, 1942-1945" DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. \nFollowing 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.\nAdmission is free\, but pre-registration is required: http://goo.gl/forms/3Q3LZbYz8y \nReception will follow at 8pm.\n$4 parking; Recommended lot: Performing Arts\nFor more information\, including accessibility\, please contact Beverly Iniguez at binguez@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hedy-rose-3/ LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MyChildhoodInHiding.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151124T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151124T234500 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20151121T002617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151121T002617Z UID:10005171-1448359200-1448408700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Joel Kaminsky: "Does God Play Favorites?: A Dialogue on Chosenness in Genesis" DESCRIPTION:Professor 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.  \nJoel S. Kaminsky is the Morningstar Family Chair in Jewish Studies as well a Professor of Bible in the Religion Department at Smith College in Northampton\, Massachusetts. He has lectured widely at universities and colleges across the globe including Oxford\, Cambridge\, Harvard\, St. Andrews\, UCLA\, Middelbury\, University of the Pacific\, University of British Columbia\, University of Kansas\, and University of Virginia. He has been a Visiting Professor at Duke\, Harvard and twice at Yale Divinity School\, as well as serving as a Visiting Jewish Studies Research Scholar in Residence at Durham University in England three times. He has authored many essays in both scholarly and more popular journals as well as authored and edited several books including\, Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election\, and most recently he co-authored The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction.  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joel-kaminsky-does-god-play-favorites-a-dialogue-on-chosenness-in-genesis-3/ LOCATION:Porter College\, Room 144 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151104T104000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20151008T234221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151008T234221Z UID:10005155-1446629400-1446633600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist\, Survivor\, Writer” DESCRIPTION:On 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 the Limits of History and Ethics (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2000) and Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence (University Press of New England\, 2009). His recently published biography\, Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life (Yale University Press\, 2013)\, is a groundbreaking study of the convergence of the roles of scientist\, humanist\, witness\, and moral philosopher in Levi’s writing. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/berel-lang-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Berel-Lang-Lecture-Flyer-for-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150518T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150518T180000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20150130T215330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150130T215330Z UID:10005037-1431964800-1431972000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference" DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents Maurice Samuels: “French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference.” \nIn 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. Long on the defensive\, universalism has now staged a comeback in current discourse that seeks to guard against excessive communitarianism or the fantasized demon of American-style multi-culturalism. However\, the universal and the particular were not always as opposed as today seems to be the case. In this paper\, I look back at the history of the way the universal was theorized in relation to France’s paradigmatic minority—the Jews—from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. My goal is to show that prior to the hardening of positions during the Dreyfus Affair\, French universalism was far more welcoming to minority difference than is ordinarily assumed today. Recovering this history\, I suggest\, might offer ways around France’s current ethnic and religious dilemmas. \nMaurice Samuels is Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale\, where he also directs the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. He’s is the author of “The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France\,” published by Cornell University Press in 2004\, and of “Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France\,” published by Stanford University Press in 2010\, which won the Scaglione Prize given by the MLA for the best book in French Studies. He also co-edited “Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader\,” published by Stanford in 2013. \nEvery year we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture series on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nThis event was made possible by generous support from the Helen Diller Family Endowment and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nClick here for directions and parking maps: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/\nFor disability related accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or 831-459-5655. \nFacebook \n\n  \nPODCAST: \n \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/french-universalism-and-the-jews-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150419T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150419T140000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20150309T173717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T173717Z UID:10005059-1429441200-1429452000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jewish Studies in the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:An Interactive Panel Discussion and Presentation of Work for Faculty and Graduate Students in Jewish Studies \nFeaturing\nRachel Deblinger\nCLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist\, UC Santa Cruz \nAri Y. Kelman\nChair in Education and Jewish Studies\, Stanford University \nFrancesco Spagnolo\nCurator\, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and\nLecturer\, Department of Music\, UC Berkeley \nModerated by\nNathaniel Deutsch\nCo-Director\, Center for Jewish Studies\, UC Santa Cruz \n\n  \nThe ongoing revolutions in computing power and digital technologies have opened up new modes of understanding and engagement for scholars in all fields. Enhanced computing power has already enabled the collection and analysis of large amounts of data such as pages of Talmud\, narrative themes in diverse bodies of literature\, historical events\, and various forms of quantitative data. For others\, digital tools have provided new modes of access to formerly inaccessible documents\, sites\, and other phenomena – prominent examples include the Shoah Foundation’s work to enable its twenty year history in collecting Holocaust testimonies to be searchable and accessible\, and the efforts of Jewish museums to catalogue and curate large cultural collections online. \nAs the field of Jewish Studies confronts new possibilities for scholarly research\, analysis\, and communication in the digital age\, we take up the challenge of employing digital tools to ask new questions about the Jewish past\, present\, and future and illuminate connections previously unseen or unimagined. In this event\, we seek to explore how these new methodologies and theories can direct future inquiries in Jewish Studies and ask if Jewish Studies has something unique to bring to the Digital Humanities. \nKindly register by Tuesday\, April 14.\nFree of charge. Dairy/vegetarian lunch will be served. \nRegister Now \n  \n  \nThis event is for faculty and graduate students in Jewish Studies programs.\nPlease extend an invitation to others who may also be interested in this event. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jewish-studies-in-the-digital-age-2/ LOCATION:The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150220 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20150120T204822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150120T204822Z UID:10005990-1424217600-1424390399@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference DESCRIPTION:The Venice Ghetto serves as the starting point from which we address questions of modern Jewish spaces –a site that has played a central role in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. Contemporary globalization brings into focus the relationship between identity and spatial location\, and highlights new and cross-cutting transnational allegiances. \n  \nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE \n\nWEDNESDAY\, February 18th (5:00-7:00PM):5:00-5:30PM: Opening Remarks\, “The Importance of the Venice Ghetto for Modern Jewish Studies” by Professor Murray Baumgarten \n5:30-7:00PM: Panel #1: Sculptural and Literary Israeli Space \nAmanda Sharick\, University of California\, Riverside: “Envisioning “Friends” (2011) and “Brotherhood” (2013) in Haifa: Yosl Bergner and Contested Histories of Cooperation/Coercion in ‘Mixed’ City Spaces.” \nChen Bar-Itzhak\, Ben-Gurion University: “The Dissolution of Utopia: Literary Representations of Haifa\, from Herzl’s Altneuland to Later Israeli Writing” (VIDEO TALK) \nRespondent: Professor Bruce Thompson\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n~~~~ \nTHURSDAY\, February 19th (9:30-4:30PM\, Reception To Follow): \n9:30-11:00AM: Panel #2: European Jewish Spaces \nErica Smeltzer\, University of California\, Santa Cruz: “Metamorphosis and Other Stories: Narrating Life on the Borders of a Divided City.” \nProfessor Peter Kenez\, University of California\, Santa Cruz: “Jewish Budapest.” \nProfessor Emily Finer\, University of St. Andrews: “Lev Lunts’ ‘Across the Border.’” \nRespondent: Professor Vilashini Cooppan\, University of California Santa Cruz \n11:00-11:30AM – Coffee Break \n11:30-1:00PM: Panel #3: American Jewish Spaces \nJoanna Meadvin\, University of California\, Santa Cruz: “An Other Jewish America: Henry Roth discovers Sepharad.” \nKatie Trostel\, University of California\, Santa Cruz: “Ceques: Networked Jewish Memory in the works of Tununa Mercado (Argentina) and Karina Pacheco Medrano (Peru).” \nRespondent: Professor Dorian Bell \n1:00-2:15PM: Lunch \n2:30-4:00PM: Panel #4: Virtual Jewish Spaces \nLee Jaffe\, University of California\, Santa Cruz: “The Jewish Anthology: A Space For Negotiating Jewish Identity.” \nCaroline Luce\, University of California\, Los Angeles: “Reconstructing the Landscape of Yiddish Culture in “Dos Durem-Land Baym Yam (The Southland by the Sea).” \nRespondent: Rachel Deblinger\, CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow\, University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n4:00-4:30PM: Concluding Remarks with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch \nPerformance by Michael Alpert\, klezmer musician. \nReception with light food and refreshments held in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n  \n\nSPONSORS:\nCenter for Jewish Studies\, Helen Diller Endowment for Jewish Studies\, and Institute for Humanities ResearchDIRECTIONS & PARKING:\nhttp://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions/ \n  \n\nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n\n  \n  \n\nEVENT PODCASTS: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/liminal-spaces-conference-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141105T203000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20141007T235204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141007T235204Z UID:10005869-1415214000-1415219400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Murray Baumgarten: "The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now" DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College presents\nThe Seventh Annual Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture \nMurray Baumgarten: “The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now”\nMurray Baumgarten directs the program in Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he is Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature. He studies the Holocaust\, Urban Jewish writing and Victorian Literature\, and is the founding director of the Dickens Project. \nHis books include City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing\, and Understanding Philip Roth with Barbara Gottfried. He has edited The Jewish Street: Modern Urban Jewish Writing with Lee Jaffe\, and Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination with H. M. Daleski; he has also written many essays on Holocaust Literature\, Victorian culture and modern Jewish writing. From 1994-2006 he edited JUDAISM: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JEWISH LIFE & THOUGHT\, for the American Jewish Congress. \nHe is a founding member of the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies\, and continues to work on the afterlife of the Venice Ghetto\, in preparation for the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto in 2016. \nMurray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez’s course on the Holocaust was offered on-line through Coursera to 18\,000 people last year. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/murray-baumgarten-the-letters-propelled-me-resisting-kristallnacht-then-and-now-2/ LOCATION:Smith Auditorium / Chapel of DeLaSalle and His Brothers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140630T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140702T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20140703T173259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140703T173259Z UID:10005740-1404115200-1404320400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications: Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity DESCRIPTION:Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications \nSummer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity \nIn conjunction with the University of California\, Santa Cruz \nJune 30 – July 2\, 2014 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute \nAttending the workshop is by invitation only \nSummer Workshop Program \nContemporary globalization brings to the forefront the relation between identity and spatial location; it highlights new and multiple cross-cutting transnational allegiances that bear on central aspects of Jewish identity\, which some contemporary writers and researchers have begun to explore and elaborate. The Venice Ghetto raises a range of questions about Modern Jewish Spaces that have played central roles in Jewish and European culture since the Jews were sequestered in the Ghetto at its founding in 1516. The history of the Ghetto\, its image and its symbolic resonances have generated different models that have become subtexts of several Modern Jewish Spaces\, often implicitly reverted to in desperate Jewish historical moments. A broad range of questions arise from the study of Modern Jewish Spaces\, such as the following: \n• Are there sets of necessary and sufficient conditions that constitute different paradigmatic Modern Jewish Spaces?\n• What do Modern Jewish Spaces mean for those who live in them\, or for those outside?\n• What roles do political\, social and cultural power play in and for these Modern Jewish Spaces?\n• What was/is the influence of the State of Israel on contemporary definitions of Jewish people?\n• What roles do minority cultures in Modern Jewish Spaces assume and fulfill? \nThe summer workshop will provide an opportunity to investigate these and other related questions. \nAcademic committee:\nProf. Shaul Bassi\, Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten\,\nProf. Murray Baumgarten\, Dr. Yotam Benziman\,\nDr. Manuela Consonni\, Prof. Shmuel Feiner\,\nProf. Aviad Hacohen\, Prof. Debra Kaplan\,\nProf. Haviva Pedaya\, Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin\,\nProf. Uzi Rebhun\, Dr. Avinoam Rosenak\,\nRabbi Naftali Rothenberg\, Dafna Schreiber \nThe Van Leer Jerusalem Institute\n43 Jabotinsky St.\, Jerusalem\nwww.vanleer.org.il\nPhotographs taken at the event will be posted on the Institute’s website and on social networks. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/18537-2/ LOCATION:Van Leer Jerusalem Institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20140509T230557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140509T230557Z UID:10004938-1400781600-1400788800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ken Waltzer and Film Screening: Kinderblock 66 DESCRIPTION: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 underground to protect ad save Jewish children who were arriving in Buchenwald toward the end of the Holocaust. Kinderblock 66 also tells the story of Antonin Kalina\, the head of the block who was personally responsible for saving 904 boys in Buchenwald. \nThe Film Screening of Kinderblock 66 will be shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8\, Room 240. \nProfessor 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 project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings. \nSeminar with Ken Waltzer held earlier in the day: A Holocaust Micro-History\nMay 22 @ 12pm in Humanities 1\, Room 210. \nThese events are free and open to the public. \nSponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ken-waltzer-film-screening-kinderblock-66-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\, College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T140000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20140509T225436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140509T225436Z UID:10004937-1400760000-1400767200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ken Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History DESCRIPTION: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 project is a book on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald. His research on the Buchenwald concentration camp has focused on the rescue of children and youths inside the camp and has included some notable findings. \nMoving Together\, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald \nOn January 17\, 1945\, a large group of about ten thousand predominantly Jewish prisoners were evacuated from Auschwitz-Buna (Monowitz) and Birkenau and taken on a death march to the west. A few days later\, approximately four thousand survivors of this ordeal reached Gleiwitz\, a rail head and the site of several Nazi satellite camps\, where the Nazis loaded them onto open coal cars and transported them to Buchenwald\, a huge concentration camp near Weimar in Thuringia. The weather was so cold that some prisoners sat on frozen dead bodies as benches. According to Nazi records\, the transport arrived on January 26\, 1945\, with 3\,784 prisoners. Of this number\, 304 youths\, 16 years old or under\, comprised about 8% of the human cargo. One of them\, Lazar (Eliezer) Wiesel\, later wrote about the ordeal in a remarkable memoir\, Night\, which is now known all over the world. \nThese were mostly Slovak-\, Hungarian-\, and Rumanian-Jewish boys who had survived terrible family losses on entering Birkenau in late May 1944 and were in Buna under atrocious conditions. Then\, eight months later they were in Buchenwald\, where many were relocated to the children’s barrack\, Kinderblock 66. In this group\, there were surprisingly numerous social clusters – boys with their fathers like Elie Wiesel\, boys with other boys\, especially brothers or cousins\, and boys with relatives or friends often from the same towns. Many were acting out deep commitments\, they say in their testimonies\, to stay together and help one another under all pressures. But others were alone. \nA large literature stresses that life in the Nazi camps approximated a war of all against all: social relations among prisoners were egoistic and pathogenic. This seminar seeks to test this hypothesis. Using the techniques of micro-history\, it asks in what ways these youths at Buna and Buchenwald were moving together and also moving alone during their ordeal. It shows how by focusing in a detailed way on a distinctive group within prisoner society\, we can study the remarkable and diverse forms of solidarity that continued to co-exist in prisoner society alongside separateness and aloneness among these tormented young people. In this case\, we can also discover the fates of nearly all boys on the transport – those like Wiesel who were in block 66\, those who were not\, and those who were sent out of Buchenwald to the killing satellites. \nKen Waltzer will also be at the film screening of Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald shown at UCSC on May 22 @ 6pm in College 8\, Room 240. \nThese events are free and open to the public. \nSponsored by: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies and Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ken-waltzer-seminar-a-holocaust-micro-history-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T164000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20140114T000454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140114T000454Z UID:10005597-1394033400-1394037600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion" DESCRIPTION: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. \nHis main fields of research are: The wisdom of love; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Halakha; Democratic education. \nHe has published numerous articles and 12 books. His most recent books are: Unity within Diversity: A Common Core Curriculum for Israeli Schoolchildren\, (With Libat Avishay)\, Jerusalem 2012\, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Wisdom by the week – the Weekly Torah Portion as an Inspiration for Thought and Creativity\, New York 2012: Yeshiva University Press and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Values and Citizens – Civic Democratic Education\, Jerusalem 2011: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Rabbi in the New World: The Influence of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Culture\, Education and Jewish Thought\, (with Avinoam Rosenak) Jerusalem 2011: Magnes Hebrew University Press and the VLJI; and The Wisdom of Love—Man\, Woman & God in Jewish Canonical Literature\, Boston 2009: Academic Studies Press. \nNaftali Rothenberg is the 2011 laureate of the Liebhaber Prize for the encouragement of religious tolerance in Israel. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/naftali-rothenberg-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140228T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140228T164000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20140115T235443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T235443Z UID:10005604-1393601400-1393605600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider \nThis 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 literature\, photographs and films\, poetry\, novels\, and memoirs\, art\, music\, and dance\, textbooks\, children’s literature and memoirs\, etc. By examining how the trope of the Zionist and Israeli hero changed over time\, I seek to enhance our understanding of the strong bond between the Jews of America and Israel as well as help to explain the ideational linkages that inform the contemporary U.S.-Israel relationship.\nMark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati and a Research Associate in the University’s Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Culture. He is also Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. \nDr. Raider’s scholarly articles have appeared in The American Jewish Archives Journal\, American Jewish History\, Jewish Social Studies\, The Journal of Israeli History\, and elsewhere. In 2010 he was awarded the American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman prize for the best article published in American Jewish History (“The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall\, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership”). \nHis books include The Emergence of American Zionism (1998); Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism\, with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ronald W. Zweig (1997); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine–A Critical Edition\, with Miriam B. Raider-Roth (2002); American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise\, with Shulamit Reinharz (2005); and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (2009). He also wrote a book-length history of the American Jewish experience for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (vol. 20\, 2006). \nHe most recently completed an edited and annotated anthology titled Free Associations: Selected Writings of Hayim Greenberg–A Critical Edition\, which is under advance contract with the University of Alabama Press. An excerpt from this volume appeared in the summer 2013 issue of The Jewish Review of Books. He is now working on a full-scale biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise\, one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial American Jewish and Zionist leaders. \nDr. Raider teaches courses on U.S. history\, the American Jewish experience\, modern Jewish history\, and Zionism and Israel. He is married to Dr. Miriam B. Raider-Roth and they have three children–Jonah\, Emma\, and Talia. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-raider-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T114500 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20140115T234737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T234737Z UID:10005602-1392717600-1392723900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents:\nHedwig C. Rose: “Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding” \nDr. 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 and their families were rounded up by the Nazi occupiers in 1942\, she spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar. She came to the United States in 1947. \nA visiting fellow at the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (War Document Archives) in Amsterdam in 2008\, for past eight years she has been visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University\, where she is continuing her research for a book on The Netherlands before and during World War II. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-the-life-of-anne-frank-cjs-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20140115T233738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T233738Z UID:10005600-1391099400-1391103000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:North French Hebrew Miscellany DESCRIPTION:Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections.\nUCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts\, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. \nThe manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at a time of upheaval for the Jews of Europe. Comprising almost 1500 pages with 84 different groups of texts\, this small volume served as a portable library. The texts include scripture\, daily prayers\, mahzor\, the Passover Haggadah\, religious poetry\, blessings\, calendars\, formularies for legal deeds and the earliest known copy of Isaac de Corbeil’s Sefer Mitsvot Katan\, composed in 1277. Three to five artists worked with the scribe to decorate and illuminate the manuscript\, most likely in or near Troyes. It is now housed in the British Library. \nPlease join us on  to welcome this wonderful addition to Special Collections – the facsimile will be on display and Professors Sharon Kinoshita and Gildas Hamel will share their expertise with us. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/north-french-hebrew-miscellany-cjs-2/ LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120417T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120417T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20120214T193005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T193005Z UID:10005052-1334678400-1334683800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster's Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology" DESCRIPTION: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 Ph.D. in Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1984. \nHis research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish to point toward new pathways in the study of Jewish culture. His first book\, as co-editor\, was From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1983 and 1998)\, which served as an introduction for younger\, English-speaking Jews to first-hand accounts of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. This was followed by Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (1991)\, based on his dissertation fieldwork in Paris\, and by a volume on the life history of Yiddish scholar Shlomo Noble. Further ethnographic and critical essays\, including some dealing with the contemporary Lower East Side in New York\, were published in Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory(1992) and Thinking in Jewish (1996). He edited and contributed to The Ethnography of Reading (1993) and Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace (1994). With his brother\, Daniel Boyarin\, he co-edited Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (1997). His interest in Zionism\, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict\, and revaluation of diaspora in contemporary Jewish life is reflected in Palestine and Jewish History (1996) and (again with Daniel Boyarin) Powers of Diaspora (2002). His books in recent years include Jewishness and the Human Dimension (Fordham\, 2008); Time and Human Language Now (with Martin Land; Prickly Paradigm\, 2009); The Unconverted Self: Jews\, Indians and the Identity of Christian Europe (Chicago\, 2009) and Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul: A Lower East Side Summer (Fordham\, 2011). \nThis event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-boyarin-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120403T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120403T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20120214T195424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120214T195424Z UID:10005054-1333468800-1333474200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: "Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives" DESCRIPTION:Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites\, Jews of Ethiopia\, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published a book in French on memory and represention of Jews in Morocco among Moroccan Muslims (Paris\, Publisud\, 2011) \nThis event was made possible by generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation\, and the University of California Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Program. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emanuela-trevisan-semi-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T210000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20120308T210424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120308T210424Z UID:10004678-1331838000-1331845200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Peter Kenez: "The Coming of the Holocaust" DESCRIPTION:University of California\, Santa Cruz\,  \nEmeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by: \n \nPeter Kenez \nProfessor of History\,\nCo-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz \nA Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary\, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently completing a book-length study of the Holocaust-a comparative study of the prerequisites for mass murder in countries occupied by the Nazis during the second world war. Professor Kenez is a founding faculty member of Stevenson College. \n— \nParking is available for $3.00 per car in the Performing Arts lot. For questions or accommodation requirements\, contact UC Santa Cruz Special Events Office at 831. 459.5003 or specialevents@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/peter-kenez-3/ LOCATION:Media Theater\, M110 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20120213T172758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120213T172758Z UID:10004666-1331647200-1331654400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States\, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II" DESCRIPTION:Allen Wells\nInitially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100\,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference\, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the spring of 1940. Only 750 refugees would find their way to Sosúa\, a farming settlement on the island’s north coast. Why did the Roosevelt administration discourage Trujillo from taking in additional refugees\, putting the settlement’s future in jeopardy? This lecture will explore the impact such an abrupt change in policy had for other refugees seeking to flee Nazism and for U.S. policy in Latin America? \nAllen Wells is the Roger Howell\, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history\, especially Yucatán\, the history of commodities\, and U.S.-Latin American relations\, and he offers a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history. Originally from New York\, he received his M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his B.A. (1973) in History and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton. \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies\, with generous support from the Jim Joseph Foundation and the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/allen-wells-lives-in-the-balance-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T140000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20120217T001003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120217T001003Z UID:10005062-1329998400-1330005600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ory Amitay: "Mary\, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus' Antiquities 18.53-84" DESCRIPTION:Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. \nThis event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program\, the Center for Jewish Studies\, the departments of Literature and History\, and the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ory-amitay-mary-paulina-and-fulvia-allegorical-history-in-josephus-antiquities-18-53-84-3/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20111129T223637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111129T223637Z UID:10004644-1328295600-1328302800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq DESCRIPTION:“Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) \nComposer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nDror Sinai is an international performer\, educator\, and guest artist\, as well as the Founder of Rhythm Fusion\, Inc. in Santa Cruz. Dror has performed as a solo artist and has appeared in ensembles of many different musical styles\, with other talented artists\, including Yair Dalal\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Yuval Ron\, Alessandra Belloni. Dror has presented lectures\, clinics\, and workshops to diverse audiences\, including Universities\, schools\, community gatherings\, children\, and adults\, and has taught both professionals and amateurs. He has been a featured instructor for SPECTRA\, a program of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County\, and has given clinics at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). In 2002 he received the Gail Rich Award in Santa Cruz County\, and he is a founding member of the World Music Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n__________ \nHall opens at 7:00 pm\nConcert starts at 7:30pm \n$12 general\n$10 seniors 62+\n$8 youth and students w/ ID \nTickets on sale in December at santacruztickets.com and at the UCSC Ticket Office. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-with-dror-sinai-an-evening-of-jewish-music-from-iraq-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20111220T203748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111220T203748Z UID:10004653-1328198400-1328203800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yair Dalal: "Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music" DESCRIPTION:Composer\, violinist\, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad\, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own\, or with his Alol ensemble\, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. \nOver the last decade he has recorded 11 albums covering wide and varied cultural territory and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. \nHe has played in concerts worldwide\, collaborated with top musicians from all over the world\, from different disciplines\, including: celebrated western classical conductor and Maestro Zubin Mehta\, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI\, L. Shankar\, Hamza El Din\, Omar Faruk Tekbilek\, Michel Bismuth\, Ken Zuckerman\, Alam Khan\, Jim Santi\, Armand Aamar\, Shlomo Mintz\, Maurice El Medioni\, Mustafa Raza\, Cihat Askin\, Nagati Chelik\, Ensemble Kaboul\, Adel Salameh\, Morwan Abado\, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra\, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra\, Melmo symphonic orchestra\, and many more. \nPresented by the Music Department. Sponsored by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation\, the David B. Gold Foundation\, and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/yair-dalal-bridge-to-babylon-lecture-on-jewish-middle-eastern-music-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T122026 CREATED:20111007T194045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20111007T194045Z UID:10004864-1318435200-1318438800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century DESCRIPTION:UCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present\nFrom Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century \nBridges of Reform\n\nShana Bernstien\nSouthwestern University\nAuthor of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011) URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-civil-defense-to-civil-rights-the-growth-of-jewish-american-interracial-activism-in-los-angeles-in-the-20th-century-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR