May 10, 2010
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Cowell 131
David Biale, the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis, will deliver a public lecture entitled: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought.” He will discuss Zionism as a movement of Jewish secularism and its roots in the tradition of Jewish secular thought going back to Spinoza.
May 13, 2010
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
J. Baskin Engineering, Room 372
Courtney Bender, Associate Professor of Religion at Columbia University, will engage in a public dialogue with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch on her new book The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination.
2010 The Helen Diller Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture
June 2, 2010
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Nathaniel Deutsch’s book Inventing America’s Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael, (UC Press) received an Honorable Mention by the 2010 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians.
May 3, 2010, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Humanities 1, Room 210 | This talk will deal with a number of issues related to the theme of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Center for Jewish Studies visiting scholar from Ben-Gurion University, Shira Stav, will give a talk entitled “Father-Daughter Relationships in Modern Hebrew Women’s Poetry.”
Saturday, April 17
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Professor Peter Kenez will discuss the recent book Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse edited by Kenez and two of his UCSC colleagues, Professors Baumgarten and Thompson.
