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.” In conflicts over the veil or […]
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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 […]
The Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College presents The Seventh Annual Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture Murray Baumgarten: “The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now” Murray […]
Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity In conjunction with the University of California, Santa Cruz June […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from […]
The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents: Hedwig C. Rose: “Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding” Dr. Hedwig […]
Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections. UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the […]
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 […]
University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by: Peter Kenez Professor of History, Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz A Holocaust survivor and […]
Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. This event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, the […]
Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of […]
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, Dartmouth […]
Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a […]
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International composer, violinist, oud player, and singer Yair Dalal to present concert and lecture on campus, February 2-3, 2012. “Living in Conflict” is a recent documentary film about five Israeli […]
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Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether […]
“Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came […]
UCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century Shana Bernstien Southwestern University […]