October 5, 2010 12:00 – 2:00 PM 210 Humanities 1 On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Jewish Studies will welcome Ruth Gruber to discuss two European trends as analogous phenomena: the “virtually Jewish scene” and codification of what “Jewish” means in physical, mass cultural, and touristic contexts, and the parallel, multi-faceted, “Imaginary Wild West,” which also [...]
Anna Sapir Abulafia: “Doing the King’s Service: The Jews in Medieval Europe”
October 8, 2010 Humanities 1, 202 5:30-6:30 AM Dr. Anna Sapir Abulafia is a specialist in Jewish-Christian relations in the European Middle Ages at the Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include: Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Routledge, 1995); Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise [...]
Galia Benziman
Visiting Scholar 2009-2010. In 2009-10 Galia Benziman, of Tel Aviv University, was a Fulbright and Dan David Postdoctoral fellow at UCSC’s Dickens Project, and a visiting lecturer in Literature. Her main fields of interest are Victorian literature and culture, and the history of childhood. She has completed a book entitled Figuring Out the Child’s Voice: [...]
Nathaniel Deutsch Appointed as IHR Director
Nathaniel Deutsch appointed as the director of the Institute for Humanities Research Nathaniel Deutsch is an American religious scholar. He is a specialist in Judaism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity and is on the faculty of University of California, Santa Cruz. He attended the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. as well as his [...]
