BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050239 CREATED:20191120T232102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T220749Z UID:10006812-1581532200-1581541200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Free Men” Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Free Men (French: Les hommes libres) is a 2011 French film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi\, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other North African Muslims in Paris played in the French resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944). It features two historic figures: Si Kaddour Benghabrit\, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris\, and Salim Halali\, an Algerian Jewish singer. The film stars Tahar Rahim playing a fictional young Algerian and Michael Lonsdale as the rector. \nFree and open to the public – RSVP appreciated. Seating is first come\, first served.  \nDoors open at 6:30\, film begins at 7:00pm \n \nAfter the film there will be a Q & A with Chris Silver\, Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture (McGill University) and Esther Lassman (Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania)\, moderated by Alma Heckman\, Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nChris Silver serves as Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of awards from the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies\, Silver’s scholarship on Morocco\, Algeria\, and Tunisia has appeared in Hespéris-Tamuda\, History Today\, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the subject of Jews\, Muslims\, and music in twentieth century North Africa. \nEtty Lassman-Hileli is a sabra – born and raised in Israel. In 1978\, she graduated from the Interior Decorating & Construction Drawing program at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa\, Israel. For the last three decades\, Etty has been a research assistant to the visiting fellows at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The ongoing work with hundreds of fellows from all around the world – has enabled her to broaden and deepen her knowledge in many fields in Jewish Studies. Etty uses her graphic design skills to enhance and transform abstract concepts originated in the research material into clear presentations. During her years at the University of Pennsylvania she has worked toward the completion of her degree in Art History. Photography is her hobby\, and she is the in-house photographer for all the Katz Center activities.\nDuring the academic year 2018-2019 whose theme was Jewish Life in Modern Islamic Contexts\, a group of participating fellows encouraged Etty to present her own research about her father’s brother – the singer Salim Halali. Etty’s presentation will include her personal stories along with research she has conducted about her uncle and his unique contribution to world music. \n  \nSponsored by the UCSC Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies \nDirections and Parking:\nThe Nickelodeon Theatre is located at 210 Lincoln St\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Nickelodeon Theatre. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 7\, 2020. Information about the Nick’s accessibility equipment can be found here. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/silver-lassman-free-men-film-screening/ LOCATION:The Nickelodeon Theatre\, 210 Lincoln St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T213000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20191104T230737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T184602Z UID:10006798-1578596400-1578605400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Jessica Guild: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSamuel Torjman Thomas & ASEFA\nASEFA (meaning “gathering”) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas\, Ph.D. Blending vocals\, oud\, violin\, nay\, and plenty of percussion\, with songs in Hebrew\, Arabic\, Spanish\, and Ladino\, this trio ensemble traverses several North African song traditions. Drawing upon a rich intercultural mix of Hebraic and Islamic traditions\, audiences feel the heartbeat of the Maghreb. Thomas is an ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist\, and as artistic director of the New York Andalus Ensemble and ASEFA\, he journeys through a lush Mediterranean garden of songs in Hebrew\, Arabic\, Ladino\, and Spanish\, highlighting intercultural exchange in the expressive cultures of North Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Thomas teaches music\, interdisciplinary studies\, and Sephardic studies at the City University of New York. He is a frequent guest speaker at cultural institutions\, universities\, and in multi-denominational ecumenical spaces worldwide. His formal talks center on historical and cultural topics related to Sephardi-Mizraḥi Jewry. \n \nAdvanced Ticket Price – $26.25 \nDoor Ticket Price – $31.50 (half price for students) \nSponsored by the Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nDirections and Parking:\nKuumbwa Jazz Center located at 320 Cedar St # 2\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center: https://kuumbwajazz.org/about/directions-accommodations/ \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 3\, 2020. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/samuel-torjman-thomas-asefa/ LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Samuel-Torjman-Thomas-Header.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20190911T182747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T201222Z UID:10006772-1570469400-1570476600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Eli Yassif: Before Seinfeld - The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Eli Yassif’s lecture “Before Seinfeld – The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor” \nJewish humor has been described as one of the most outstanding characteristics of the Jewish People\, and its history dates back to Biblical times. But is there really “Jewish Humor”\, and if so\, what are its major characteristics? This talk will explore the earliest collections of Jewish jokes\, from early in the 19th century\, and strive to understand\, by analyzing some exemplary jokes\, the place and impact Jewish humor has had in and on Early Modern history and culture. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nEli Yassif is the Berger Professor of Jewish Folk-Culture in the School of Jewish Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He studies the history of Jewish folklore and the Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages\, and published over 100 studies – books and scholarly articles in these fields. \nHis book: The Hebrew Folktale: History\, Genre\, Meaning was published in 1999 by Indiana University Press\, and was elected as the best Jewish scholarly book for that year. It is used as the basic textbook in Israel and in the US in teaching this field. \nHis latest book was published just this year: The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press\, 2019). \nProf. Yassif served as a visiting professor at UCLA and UC Berkeley\, Oxford University\, University of Michigan\, University of Chicago\, Yale University and Stanford. \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eli-yassif-before-seinfeld-the-early-modern-roots-of-jewish-humor/ 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/2019/09/images.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20190108T203108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T174037Z UID:10005555-1557428400-1557435600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Antisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Paul Schraub: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAs Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week\, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred\, and the planning of violent terror attacks. \nThis year’s UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these technologies and antisemitism\, asking: Is there something new about antisemitism today or is it just a continuation of old images and fears? How do social media platforms create environments for the viral spread of global antisemitism? \nJoin Nathaniel Deutsch and Rachel Deblinger\, co-directors of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC Santa Cruz\, to discuss these questions and explore how scholars of antisemitism can work closely with members of the tech community to fight against this and related forms of hatred toward others. \n\nRegistration Required \nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the THI at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by May 6\, 2019. \nEvent info: \n\nRegistration is required for entrance into this event.\nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.\nDirections to the Computer History Museum are here.\n\nSecurity: \n\nPlease be aware that all attendees must pass through security to enter the event venue. Make sure to carefully review the below information to ensure your entry to the event.\nThere will be no in and out privileges. Once you have passed through security\, if you leave the venue re-entry will not be permitted.\nAll bags are subject to search. Prohibited items include weapons\, drugs\, and knives of any kind. Anything deemed unsafe by the security team will not be permitted to enter the venue.\nAll bags\, including briefcases\, purses\, luggage and diaper bags\, larger than 14” x 14” x 6” are not permitted. Backpacks and hard-sided bags of any kind are also prohibited. Single-compartment drawstring bags and fashion backpack purses that are smaller than 14” x 14” x 6” are permitted. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anti-semitism-online/ LOCATION:CA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/032819_EventsPage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20180921T202129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190918T180746Z UID:10005516-1550685600-1550689200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Loeffler\, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews\, Human Rights\, and Global Democracy" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies \n2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between the Holocaust\, the legal framework of Human Rights\, and the struggle to find justice on the global scale. \n\n\nIn this talk\, James Loeffler draws on his new book\, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century\, to revisit the 1948 moment in which modern human rights was born. This talk will also address the challenges and opportunities for minorities and stateless peoples by focusing on Jewish human rights pioneers who saw the Jewish state as an expression of global democracy. Join THI to ask where Human Rights come from\, how Jews are part of the story\, and if Zionism is in conflict with the modern Human Rights movement? \n\n\n\nRSVP appreciated\, seating is first come\, first served. Reception to follow. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 16th. \nParking and Directions to the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn  \n  \nJames Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow in International Law and Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. At UVa he teaches courses in Jewish and European history\, Russian and East European history\, international legal history\, and the history of human rights. \nHis publications include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press\, 2018) and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press\, 2010)\, and the forthcoming edited volume\, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press). \nThis event is part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, a project of Expanding Humanities\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \n— \nThe Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies \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 on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. \nVisit our lecture archive online > URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jim-loeffler-helen-diller/ LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/trtbh-events_page.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T150000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20180921T163216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T213308Z UID:10005515-1541683800-1541689200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Rachel Gross\, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century\, emphasizing sustainability\, local produce\, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine\, American Jews express their longing for authentic Jewish pasts\, build community in the present\, and pass on their values to future generations. \n \n  \n  \nProf. Rachel B. Gross is the John and Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a book entitled Feeling Jewish: Nostalgia and American Jewish Religion. She received her PhD from Princeton University. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-gross-deli/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, 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/2018/09/pickles_web-events.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20170525T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T170000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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\, 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:20170419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20161129T224751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T224751Z UID:10006430-1492617600-1492624800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During\, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on “Ghetto: Invention of a Place\, History of an Idea” \nLecture at 4:00pm – Humanities 1\, RM 210 \nReception to follow \nParking – Free to attendees – Please follow “Diller Lecture” signs to Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 109 and 110 – Parking attendants will be on hand to issue parking permits URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/diller-lecture-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/UC_IHRDillrPstr_2016_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T170000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20170328T203917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T203917Z UID:10006488-1492009200-1492016400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jewish Studies Open House DESCRIPTION:Come discover what makes the Jewish Studies program at UC Santa Cruz such a unique and vibrant educational opportunity. Meet Jewish Studies faculty and students\, learn about classes\, internship opportunities\, and the Jewish Studies intellectual community. \nWednesday\, April 12\, 3-5pm\nHum 1\, 210 \n  \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jewish-studies-open-house-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:20170222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20160421T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T114500 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 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:20160307T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160307T220000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20160301T174037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160301T174037Z UID:10005209-1457382600-1457388000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Israeli Music Extravaganza! DESCRIPTION:Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! \nMonday\, March 7 at 8:30pm\n@ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall\nDoors open at 8:00pm \nDrums: Gary Kehoe\nGuitars: Nelsen Hutchison\nBass: Etienne David Franc\nSaxophones: Anne Stafford\nKeyboard: Avi Tchamni\nPercussion: Noam Harel \nThe show is FREE for all \nFor more information\, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/israeli-music-extravaganza-3/ LOCATION:Porter/Kresge Dining Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20151124T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151124T234500 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20140522T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20260508T050240 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:20140204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140204T183000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20131210T171235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131210T171235Z UID:10004873-1391533200-1391538600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History" DESCRIPTION:The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents:\nSteven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History” \nKishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot\, leaving 49 dead\, in an obscure border town\, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks\, it intruded on US-Russian relations\, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine\, the NAACP\, and\, most likely\, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much\, and for so long? \nSteven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia\, Poland\, France\, and Israel; for six years\, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford. He is the author and editor of eight books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986\, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame\, Oblivion\, and the Furies of Writing (2008\, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography\, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian\, Hebrew\, and French. He has been awarded the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association\, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University\, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review\, the Washington Post\, The New Republic\, the Jewish Review of Books\, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere. He is an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies\, the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture\, and the Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series. In spring 2013\, he will be the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Zipperstein is Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History\, in New York.\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. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-zipperstein-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:20260508T050240 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:20131205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131205T194500 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20131104T201156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131104T201156Z UID:10004861-1386266400-1386272700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julia Phillips Cohen: "Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era" DESCRIPTION:The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this talk\, Julia Phillips Cohen offers a corrective\, arguing that Jewish leaders who promoted this vision did so in response to a series of reforms enacted by the nineteenth-century Ottoman state: the new equality they gained came with a new set of expectations. Ottoman subjects were suddenly to become imperial citizens\, to consider their neighbors as brothers and their empire as a homeland. Yet the process was not seamless: as they sought to teach each other how to become modern citizens of their state\, Ottoman Jews soon learned that their patriotic project could entail uncomfortable choices and disturbing consequences. \nCharting Ottoman Jews’ responses to these developments\, this talk provides new perspectives for understanding Jewish encounters with modernity and citizenship in a centralizing\, modernizing Islamic state and an imperial\, multi-faith landscape. \nJulia Phillips Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, and\, together with Sarah Abrevaya Stein\, editor of Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History\, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2014). \nPresented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julia-phillips-cohen-becoming-ottomans-sephardi-jews-and-imperial-citizenship-in-the-modern-era-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:20131113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20131104T191328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131104T191328Z UID:10005560-1384365600-1384371000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with Peter Kenez\, Murray Baumgarten\, and Lee Jaffe DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebration of two recently published books: The Coming of the Holocaust: From Anti-Semitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez\, and The Jewish Street: The City and Modern Jewish Writing by Murray Baumgarten and Lee Jaffe. The authors will discuss their books\, copies of which will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be served. \nPeter Kenez is Emeritus Professor of History\, UCSC\nMurray Baumgarten is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies\, UCSC\nLee Jaffe is the Librarian for Jewish Studies\, Philosophy & Theater Arts\, UCSC \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and the University Library. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-peter-kenez-murray-baumgarten-and-lee-jaffe-2/ LOCATION:Silverman Conference Room\, Stevenson\, Stevenson College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131104T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131104T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20131018T055207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131018T055207Z UID:10005541-1383584400-1383591600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Debarati Sanyal: "Camus's Afterlives: From the Holocaust to the Age of Terror" DESCRIPTION:Debarati Sanyal is Associate Professor of French at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author of The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire\, Irony and the Politics of Form (John Hopkins University Press\, 2006) and a forthcoming book titled Dangerous Intersections: Complicity\, Trauma and Holocaust Memory. She has recently published articles on Alain Resnaiss\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Albert Camus\, Jonathan Littell\, Giorgio Agamben\, the memory of World War II\, and Holocaust memory. She has also co-edited a 2-volume issue of the Yale French Studies issue titled Noueds de mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in French and Francophone Literature (2010). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debarati-sanyal-camuss-afterlives-from-the-holocaust-to-the-age-of-terror-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130508T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130109T215449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130109T215449Z UID:10004766-1368028800-1368034200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Helen Diller Family Endowment Lecture with Ari Kelman: "Learning to be Jewish" DESCRIPTION:For most Americans\, the phrase “Jewish education” summons images of Hebrew School. But\, Hebrew School\, or even what we might call “formal Jewish education” amounts to only a very small percentage of where and how people learn to be Jewish. The landscape of Jewish learning might include those sites\, but it certainly includes a much broader spectrum of settings like worship\, film festivals\, popular music\, literature\, home-based rituals (like Passover seders)\, technology\, and encounters with the news. By focusing on the places where and how people learn to be Jewish\, a dramatically different image of Jewish education comes into focus. Building on cutting edge research into educational cultures\, we will explore the variety of ways in which people learn to be Jewish in the 21st century and ask how this new understanding might inform how we understand what it means to be Jewish. \nAn alumnus of UC Santa Cruz (Stevenson\, 1994) Ari Y. Kelman is the inaugural Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies in the Stanford University Graduate School of Education\, where he also serves as an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program\, the Center for Comparative Race and Ethnicity\, the American Studies Program\, and\, by courtesy\, a professor of Religious Studies. He is the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio\, (University of California Press\, 2009) and the editor of a volume of the work of cartoonist Milt Gross (NYU Press\, 2009). He is also the co-author of Sacred Strategies (Alban Institute Press\, 2010)\, a study of synagogue transformation efforts in the United States and winner of the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish Education and Identity. In collaboration with Steven M. Cohen\, Ari has authored a number of studies of contemporary American Jewish culture addressing issues from Israel to the internet. Ari recently finished a book entitled Shout to the Lord: Worship and Music in Evangelical America\, and is currently writing about Fiddler on the Roof\, the Jewish Catalog\, Jewish cultural festivals and other extra-scholastic loci in which people learn to be Jewish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/helen-diller-family-endowment-lecture-with-ari-kelman-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:20130428T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130428T163000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130212T184706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130212T184706Z UID:10005365-1367161200-1367166600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC DESCRIPTION:Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication’s 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted to Jewish themes in the United States. Over the years\, its articles and artwork have explored contemporary questions of Jewish identity\, the role of Israel\, local Jewish issues\, and a wide range of cultural and historical topics. Many of it editors\, writers\, and artists have gone on to distinguished careers in publishing\, journalism\, education\, and other fields. \nThe event\, to be held in the Fireside Lounge of Stevenson College at 3 p.m. on Sunday\, April 28\, will include a panel discussion with former and current Leviathan staff members\, the official launch of the newly created digital archive of past issues of the publication going back to the 1970s\, and a festive reception with food and beverages. \nCo-sponsored by Leviathan\, the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and Stevenson College. Administrative support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/leviathan-celebrating-40-years-of-jewish-journalism-at-ucsc-2/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130416T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130416T154500 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130226T223835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130226T223835Z UID:10004800-1366120800-1366127100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Adriana M. Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice\, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)" DESCRIPTION:The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities\, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews\, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity\, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi\, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin\, and usually married ‘within’\, as the twentieth century progressed and new spaces for interaction of Jews from different origins became available choosing a marriage partner outside of the ‘group’ became more common. The presentation will suggest that loyalties to communities of origin slowly evolved into a stronger sense of belonging to the Argentine nation. \nAdriana M. Brodsky\, Associate Professor of Latin American History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland\, obtained her PhD from Duke University in 2004. She is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Becoming Argentine Jews: Sephardim and the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities\, 1880-1960\, which focuses on the Sephardic communities that settled in Argentina from the end of the 19th century to mid-20th century\, and has co-edited with Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) a book titled The New Jewish Argentina (Brill\, 2012). She has published on Sephardi schools in Argentina\, and on Jewish Beauty Contests. Her new project explores the experiences of Argentine Sephardi youth in the 1960s-1970s\, which has received support from the Hadassah- Brandeis Institute. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adriana-brodsky-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:20130308T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130308T104000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130123T181003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T181003Z UID:10005330-1362735000-1362739200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Young: “Stages of Memory: In Berlin & New York” DESCRIPTION:Reception following lecture. \nJames E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, where he has taught since 1988\, and currently Chair of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He has also taught at New York University as a Dorot Professor of English and Hebrew/Judaic Studies (1984-88)\, at Bryn Mawr College in the History of Religion\, and at the University of Washington\, Harvard University\, and Princeton University as a visiting professor. He received his B.A. in 1973 from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, his M.A. in 1976 from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1983. \nProfessor Young is the author of At Memory’s Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (Yale University Press\, 2000)\, The Texture of Memory (Yale University Press\, 1993)\, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994\, and Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (Indiana University Press\, 1988)\, which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1988. He was also the Guest Curator of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City\, entitled “The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History” (March – August 1994\, with venues in Berlin and Munich\, September 1994 – June 1995) and was the editor of The Art of Memory (Prestel Verlag\, 1994)\, the exhibition catalogue for this show. \nIn 1997\, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany’s national “Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews\,” dedicated in 2005. He has also consulted with Argentina’s government on its memorial to the desaparacidos\, as well as with numerous city agencies on their memorials and museums. Most recently\, he was appointed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition\, now under construction. \nHis articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Inquiry\, Representations\, New Literary History\, Partisan Review\, The Yale Journal of Criticism\, Annales\, SAQ\, History and Theory\, Harvard Design Magazine\, Jewish Social Studies\, Contemporary Literature\, History and Memory\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Forward\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Prooftexts\, The Jewish Quarterly\, Tikkun\, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Chicago Tribune\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, and Slate\, among dozens of other journals and collected volumes. His books and articles have been published in German\, French\, Hebrew\, Japanese\, and Swedish. \nProfessor Young is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, ACLS Fellowship\, NEH Exhibition planning\, implementation\, and research grants\, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grants\, an American Philosophical Society Grant\, and a Yad Hanadiv Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, among others. \nIn 2000\, he was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization\, a ten-volume anthology of primary sources\, documents\, texts\, and images\, forthcoming with Yale University Press. He is also currently completing an insider’s account of the World Trade Center Memorial process\, entitled The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror’s Report on the World Trade Center Memorial Process. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-young-stages-of-memory-in-berlin-new-york-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130225T184500 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130118T180945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130118T180945Z UID:10005324-1361811600-1361817900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Myers: "A Hasidic Town in New York? As American as Apple Pie?" DESCRIPTION:David Myers is professor of Jewish history and chair of the UCLA History Department. He is currently at work with Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) on a book on the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel\, New York. This project represents a significant departure from his work in the fields of German-Jewish intellectual history\, the history of Jewish historiography\, and the history of Zionism. In his current work\, he is combining historical\, ethnographic\, and legal approaches to examine the rise to prominence of a self-contained and legally recognized municipality in the State of New York that consists entirely of Hasidic Jews. His research shows that the creation of such a homogeneous shtetl has had few parallels in Jewish history\, though it is not nearly so unusual in American history\, which has an identifiable tradition of permitting strong forms of religious sub-communities to take root.\nReception to follow talk. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-myers-a-hasidic-town-in-new-york-as-american-as-apple-pie-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:20130213T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130213T104000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130123T180505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T180505Z UID:10005328-1360747800-1360752000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dora Sorell: “Tell the Children” DESCRIPTION:Reception following lecture. \nDora Sorell grew up in the small town of Sighet in Northern Romania between the two World Wars. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz along with most of the town’s 10\,000 Jewish inhabitants. She survived the ordeal\, but her parents\, two of her brothers\, and some 40 members of her extended family perished in the gas chambers. Dora returned to Sighet\, married her high school sweetheart\, and built a career and raised a family before emigrating to the West to be with her surviving brothers. More information about her autobiography\, Tell the Children\, Letters to Miriam\, is can be found on her website: http://www.letterstomygrandchildren.com/index.html URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dora-sorell-tell-the-children-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130211T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130211T104000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130123T180247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130123T180247Z UID:10005326-1360575000-1360579200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Thaler: “Role of Bio-Science and Medicine in Nazi Radical Policies and the Holocaust” DESCRIPTION:Reception to follow lecture. \nMichael Thaler is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Medicine\, UC San Francisco\, and a Lecturer in History\, UC Santa Cruz. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-thaler-role-of-bio-science-and-medicine-in-nazi-radical-policies-and-the-holocaust-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130128T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130128T134500 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20130108T003558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130108T003558Z UID:10005294-1359376200-1359380700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Clive Sinclair: “Zion Down Under\, or Israel through the Looking Glass” DESCRIPTION:Photo of Melech Ravitch with a young Aboriginal woman in the outback. Photo courtesy of Monash University.\nDr. Sinclair will tell us how Melech Ravitch – poet\, traveller\, and (until 1934) Executive Secretary of the Fareyn fun Yidishe Literatn un Zhurnalistn in Varshe – got wind of the approaching catastrophe of the Holocaust\, and scanned the globe for a place of refuge. With this in mind he set out for Australia in 1933\, and upon arrival mounted an expedition to the Kimberleys in the Northern Territory. \nHis account of the journey – written in Yiddish – and his numerous photographs\, display a remarkable and unusual sympathy for the aboriginal people. Indeed\, he saw in them a reflection of the suffering of his own people he had left behind in Europe. \nRavitch is an engaging companion. And if it weren’t for the historic tragedies that befell both Jews and Aborigines his journey would be the stuff of comedy. \nIn the 1980s his journey and experience was recreated on canvas by his famous son\, Yosl Bergner. Still only seventeen\, Bergner had followed his father to Australia\, where he soon established himself as the conscience of Australian art. Like his father he felt a kinship for the Aborigines\, magnified by the awareness of what exactly had befallen European Jewry. In 1950 Yosl Bergner arrived in Israel\, where he eventually became one of the country’s most distinguished artists. Just as his father saw Australia as a sort of double-exposure – Europe over-laid upon Australasia – so Bergner juxtaposes Israel and Australia\, producing a looking-glass image of the Promised Land. In short\, the father presents a version of What-Might-Have-Been\, while the son offers a portrait of a dreamer disappointed.\nClive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction\, travel\, and autobiography\, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career he was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists. His most acclaimed collection of stories – The Lady and the Laptop – won both the PEN Silver pen for fiction\, and the Jewish Quarterly award for fiction. An earlier collection\, Bedbugs\, was recently republished by Syracuse University Press in its Library of Modern Jewish Literature. In 2008 he published Clive Sinclair’s True Tales of the Wild West\, an exercise in Dodgy Realism. He also leads a double-life as an academic and critic: he has published a study of Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua Singer – The Brothers Singer – and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. His association with UCSC began in 1969\, when he arrived from England as a graduate student; it continued in 1980-81\, when he returned as a Visiting Lecturer\, as he did again in 2003. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/clive-sinclair-zion-down-under-or-israel-through-the-looking-glass-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:20121203T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121203T164000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20121129T171922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121129T171922Z UID:10005253-1354548600-1354552800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ethan Michaeli: “Between Memory and History: Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust” DESCRIPTION:The children of survivors must navigate between the intimate legacy of their parents’ experiences and their own encounter—via books\, films\, and other sources—of the Holocaust as a historical event. As the last survivors pass away and lived memory of the event disappears with them\, what special role—if any—should their children play in representing and interpreting the Holocaust? Professor Nathaniel Deutsch\, the Neufeld-Levin Endowed Chair of Holocaust Studies\, whose father was saved by a righteous gentile during World War II\, will participate in a public conversation with Ethan Michaeli\, a journalist and author\, whose mother survived Auschwitz as a teenager. \nEthan Michaeli is an award-winning journalist and publisher whose writing has appeared in The Nation\, The Forward\, The Chicago Tribune\, Chicago Magazine and In These Times\, among other publications. He is the founder and director of We The People Media/Residents’ Journal\, a non-profit dedicated to working with Chicago Housing Project residents. Michaeli is currently writing The Defender: How Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America\, from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, forthcoming)\, a book about the Chicago Defender\, the country’s most important African American newspaper\, where he worked as a reporter and editor from 1991 to 1996. Michaeli’s work is inspired by his parents\, both of whom are Holocaust survivors. \nEthan’s work is inspired by his parents\, both of whom are survivors of the Holocaust. He lives in Chicago with his wife and son. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ethan-michaeli-between-memory-and-history-growing-up-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-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:20121115T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121115T154500 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20121023T195302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121023T195302Z UID:10004721-1352988000-1352994300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:William Wells: "Keeping Faith in Word and Spirit: Translating the Work of Two Jewish/Italian Poets" DESCRIPTION:Will’s most recent book of poems\, Unsettled Accounts\, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis\, he was chosen as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry for the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and as 2010 Ohio Poet of the Year (selected by the State Library of Ohio). He has previously won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council (1996)\, an N.E.A. Fellowship in poetry\, and four scholarly fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, most of which have involved translation of various Italian poets. Most recently\, this involved translating the sonnets of Sara Coppia Sullam during the NEH Summer Institute on “Venice\, The Jews and Italian Culture” in 2006. Subsequent presentations and articles have focused upon the translation of Sullam’s sonnets. Other N.E.H. experiences included a summer Institute on Literary Translation at the University of California\, Santa Cruz in 1988. His previous volume of poems\, Conversing with the Light\, was chosen by Henry Taylor for the 1987 Anhinga Prize and published by Anhinga Press of Tallahassee. He has also translated Umberto Saba’s first volume of poems\, Trieste and a Lady\, and that volume is currently in circulation with publishers. His current poetry manuscript\, tentatively\, titled Scraps and Damaged Lots\, is nearly finished. He serves as Professor of English and Dean of Arts & Sciences at Rhodes State College in Ohio. \nThis event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/william-wells-keeping-faith-in-word-and-spirit-translating-the-work-of-two-jewishitalian-poets-3/ LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T170000 DTSTAMP:20260508T050240 CREATED:20121026T214248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121026T214248Z UID:10004726-1352302200-1352307600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anat Gilboa: "Rembrandt's Depictions of Jewish Themes" DESCRIPTION:Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories\, based on pictorial and literary sources\, was formed early in his career. Male figures from the Bible such as Moses\, Abraham or Jeremiah are represented as heroic protagonists. Female figures\, essential to the Bible and the narrative of ancient Israel\, are prominently depicted in various roles: as mothers and wives or lovers of patriarchs\, heroes and kings. Reflecting moralistic attitudes in art of the time\, Rembrandt often portrayed these women in the context of corrupting influence or precipitating fatal events. Yet in the master’s late depictions of biblical histories\, we discover a deep understanding of human nature\, especially noticed in his late portrayals of biblical heroines. \nDr. Anat Gilboa is an art historian\, specializing in early modern art\, Jewish and Israeli visual culture. She has taught at universities in Israel\, Canada and the US. Her research has resulted in a book and in various publications in American and European journals and conferences. \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies\, with cosponsorship by the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anat-gilboa-rembrandts-depictions-of-jewish-themes-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR