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Joel 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 surrounding the theme of special divine favor toward certain individuals and groups that pervades Genesis in hopes of illuminating these often troubling narratives. […]
Berel 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 Lang of Wesleyan University, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled “Primo […]
CFP: Summer Workshop on The Ghetto of Venice: The Future of Memory in the Digital Age
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 lived there—was and still is today one of the most misunderstood of modern Jewish spaces as well as one of […]