“Sephardic Archives from Analog to Digital: Three Tales of Memory and Visibility” Join us as Devin E. Naar, founder of the Sephardic Studies Program at the University of Washington, traces […]
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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 […]
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1 November 2017 / 27 July 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
Since it was first performed in 1605, The Merchant of Venice has been one of Shakespeare’s most controversial works. For the past 400 years, a debate has raged among critics and scholars […]
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Event Video: Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now 11.7.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: Karin Coonrod, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will join Nathaniel Deutsch […]
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents: Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem” The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript […]
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 […]
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.” […]
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: by Crystal Birns Join us for “UCSC Night at the […]
Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the: Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UC Santa Cruz Sunday, January 22, 2017 4 p.m. Light […]
Event Podcast: “In my time I have seen many Shylocks ….. But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” Clive Sinclair is the author of […]
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, […]
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16 February 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
By Scott Rappaport The Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz will present a one-day conference, The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory, on campus February […]
15 January 2016 / 8 May 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis in 1942, six-year-old Hedwig Rose, her mother, and sister spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian friend until the […]
EVENT PODCAST: This conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and […]
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. […]
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 […]
Please join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam […]
2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities” With more than 52,000 testimonies, 100,000+ hours […]
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 […]
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, […]
20 August 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz has launched a new version of its free online course, The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, through the Coursera platform. The course was developed and is […]
An Interactive Panel Discussion and Presentation of Work for Faculty and Graduate Students in Jewish Studies Featuring Rachel Deblinger CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, UC Santa Cruz Ari Y. […]
17 February 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Jessica Guild | Leave a Comment
The Center for Jewish Studies presents a two-day conference, “Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination” on February 18-19 with panels on: Sculptural and Literary Israeli Space, European Jewish Spaces, American Jewish Spaces, and Virtual Jewish Spaces.