Center for Jewish Studies

Negotiating French, Maghreb-French and Jewish Identities Through Literature and History

Denis Cohen-Tannoudji, Société d’Histoire des Juifs de Tunisie: The Cohen-Tanoudji Family, A Historical Itinerary Through North African Jewry This talk is the last one in the series seeking to enhance a new dialogue between different plural voices writing about multiple Jewish identities originating from France and the Maghreb. Special focus on conflicting and co-existing identities [...]

Clive Sinclair: “The Jew in the Crown”

Clive 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 [...]

Peter Kenez to Deliver Annual UCSC Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture

History professor and co-holder of Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies to share his research A Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on a book-length study of the Holocaust–a comparative study of the prerequisites for mass murder [...]

Peter Kenez: “The Coming of the Holocaust”

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 native of Hungary, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is currently [...]

Brian Catlos winner of the 47th Webb-Smith Essay Competition (University of Texas-Arlington)

The Department of History at the University of Texas-Arlington has announced the winners of the 47th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Essay Competition: Dr. Brian Catlos (History: University of California Santa Cruz/ Religious Studies: University of Colorado at [...]

• June 5, 2012 4:00 pm
  Robert Weinberg: "Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: Popular Antisemitism, the Occult and the Trial of Mendel Beilis"