Prof. ChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies.
Events
Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: "Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives"
Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published […]
Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster’s Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology"
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish culture to point toward new […]
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: "Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement"
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. […]
Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II "
Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the […]
Yair Dalal: "Bridge to Babylon Lecture on Jewish Middle Eastern Music"
February 2, 2012 | 4:00-5:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to Israel from Baghdad, and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. […]
Yair Dalal with Dror Sinai: “An Evening of Jewish Music from Iraq”
February 3, 2012 | 7-9 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information “Bridge to Babylon” with visiting artists Yair Dalal (oud and violin) and Dror Sinai (percussion) Composer, violinist, oud player and singer Yair Dalal was born in 1955. His family came to […]
Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
November 30, 2011 | 5:00-7:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove” Professor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about […]
Gershom Gorenberg: Distinguished Alumni Lecture
November 14, 2011 | 7-9 PM | Free & Open to the Public Stevenson Event Center, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information UCSC alumnus Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published […]
A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
November 16, 2011 | 1-3 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 202, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as “custom.” Historically, minhag […]