UC Santa Cruz Launches New Legacy Course on the Holocaust with Coursera
By Scott Rappaport. 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...
View ArticleCFP: Summer Workshop on The Ghetto of Venice: The Future of Memory in the...
Summer Workshop for Early Career Scholars on Liminal Spaces and Jewish Identity Tuesday, June 28 – Sunday, July 5, 2016 | Venice, Italy The ghetto—the stereotype and the iconic image of the Jews who...
View ArticleBerel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer”
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | 9:30-10:40 AM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information On Wednesday, November 4, Professor Berel...
View ArticleJoel Kaminsky: “Does God Play Favorites?: A Dialogue on Chosenness in Genesis”
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 | 10:00-11:45 AM | Free & Open to the Public Porter College, Room 144, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Professor Kaminsky will explore various motifs...
View ArticleHedy Rose: “My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945”
Thursday, January 21, 2016 | 7:00-8:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose,...
View ArticleShaul Bassi: “Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto,...
Friday, January 29, 2016 | 4:00-6:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Cowell Provost House, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information The Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been...
View ArticleMapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | 12:00-1:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities Building 2, Room 259, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Literature graduate students, Katie...
View ArticleTodd Presner: “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital...
2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Wednesday, February 24, 2016 | 4:00-6:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public 210 Humanities Building 1, UC Santa Cruz...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivor and Scholar Hedwig Rose to Give Public Talk at UCSC on...
By Scott Rappaport. 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...
View ArticleLiminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | 12:15-6:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public 210 Humanities Building 1, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information This conference addresses the complexity of the...
View ArticleJewish Studies Conference to Examine Venice Ghetto and the Future of Memory
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 23, at the Humanities 1...
View ArticleCall for Applications: UCSC Center for Jewish Studies Summer Fellowship at...
Organization: Digital Heritage Mapping (DHM), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, specializes in virtual documentation of global cultural heritage sites. DHM is partnered with the American Sephardi...
View ArticleISRAELI MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA!
Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! DRUMS: Gary Kehoe GUITARS: Nelsen Hutchison BASS: Etienne David Franc SAXOPHONES: Anne Stafford KEYBOARD: Avi Tchamni...
View ArticleTony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
Thursday, April 21, 2016 Humanities Room 210, UCSC 10am-11:45am Directions and Parking The Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the...
View Article‘Venice Ghetto at 500’ explores its legacy on Jewish life
by patricia corrigan , j. correspondent “Il Ghetto: The Venice Ghetto at 500,” a new exhibit at the Jewish Community Library, explores the history of the Venice ghetto and the centuries of Jewish life...
View ArticleCall For Applications: Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards
The Jewish Studies Program invites submissions for the 2015-2016 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards. To encourage and reward outstanding research and writing on Jewish themes by...
View ArticleA historic anniversary: 1516-2016 Beit Venezia for the Ghetto Quincentennial
For eight years now BEIT VENEZIA (previously known as The Venice Center for International Jewish Studies) has honored and continued the legacy of the Ghetto of Venice as a center of Jewish life, art,...
View ArticleSummer Workshop in Venice for Early Career Scholars on Liminal Spaces and...
Venice, Italy June 28th – July 5th, 2016 Generously Supported by the Delmas Foundation The Ghetto of Venice: The Future of Memory in the Digital Age The ghetto – the stereotype and the iconic image of...
View ArticleUC Santa Cruz alum named executive director of largest international society...
UC Santa Cruz alum named executive director of largest international society of Jewish Studies March 16, 2017 By Scott Rappaport UC Santa Cruz alumnus Warren Hoffman has been named the next Executive...
View ArticleThe Politics of Belonging: Moroccan Communist Jews, French Empire, and...
April 26th, 4:00pm April 26th, 4:00pm Location: Stevenson Fireside Lounge Reception to Follow For accessibitiy concerns, contact pmreed@ucsc.edu This talk examines the place of Jews in colonial Morocco...
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