The Humanities Division is pleased to announce an online component for the Literature/History course, “The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry.” Co-taught for over 20 years by Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus, History, this hybrid course offers both online and on-campus elements and resources. Students on […]
January 28, 2013 | 12:30-1:45 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Dr. Sinclair will tell us how Melech Ravitch – poet, traveller, and (until 1934) Executive Secretary of the Fareyn fun Yidishe Literatn un Zhurnalistn in Varshe – got wind […]
November 29, 2012 | 12:00-1:45 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Center, Room 131, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information On November 29, Phaedon Sinis will give a lecture on music in the Ottoman empire: its history and development, the interaction between Jewish and non Jewish musicians, and introduction to […]
December 03, 2012 | 3:30-4:40 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information The children of survivors must navigate between the intimate legacy of their parents’ experiences and their own encounter—via books, films, and other sources—of the Holocaust as a historical event. […]
November 15, 2012 | 2:00-3:45 PM | Free & Open to the Public Stevenson Fireside Lounge, Room 177, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Will’s most recent book of poems, Unsettled Accounts, won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published in February of 2010 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. On its basis, […]
November 7, 2012 | 3:30-5:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories, based on pictorial and literary sources, […]
It is with great enthusiasm that the Center for Jewish Studies announces that the following undergraduates have received Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards for the 2011-2012 year: Savyonne Steindler, “Being Baal Yeshivah” Sarah Edelstein, “Spielberg’s Holocaust: A Critical Analysis of Schindler’s List” Pamela Ong, “The Land of Exile and Humanity” Alicia Barnett, “Keep It In […]
Sam Ball Will Present His Work With Two Graphic Novelists: Joann Sfar Draws from Memory and Ben Katchor: Pleasures of Urban Decay May 31, 2012 | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Sam Ball’s documentaries have been exhibited […]
Professor Weinberg will explore the nature of popular antisemitism in the Russian Empire during the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Kievan Jew accused of ritual murder in 1913. Concerned citizens sent letters to the prosecution during the trial in order to buttress the […]
Two weeks ago, author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) went on the Stephen Colbert show to promote his latest book New American Haggadah. Edited by Foer and translated by acclaimed writer Nathan Englander, the book is a new, alternative version of the Passover book used by Jews to celebrate […]
