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.
Why was there no Holocaust in Soviet Russia? There were killings, but the killings did not take on the same meaning as in the West, where the Holocaust emerged as a unique and paradigmatic set of events. Official Soviet history is part of the reason for the absence of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union. The term “Holocaust” itself did not have broad currency in the West during the 40s and it was not used in Russian until the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s. Nonetheless, Soviet literature, almost completely neglected by scholars and critics, confronts the impossible history of the destruction of the Jews, but not in the same terms as Holocaust literature in the West.
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.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
5:00PM – 6:30PM
Humanities I, Room 202
March 23, 2010 | 7:30-8:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris Par Nathaniel Deutsch, directeur du département d’études juives de l’université de Santa Cruz (Californie), spécialiste du hassidisme et de la pensée gnostique, auteur de The Maiden of Ludmir, […]
For hundreds of years, the shtetls of Eastern Europe were home to much of the world’s Jewish population. Today, most American Jews can trace at least some of their ancestors to a shtetl. But what exactly was a shtetl? Who lived there? How did women and men experience the shtetl differently?
Professor Shaul Magid will give a public lecture on “Hasidism and Second Wave Neo-Hasidism: From Jewish Exclusivity to a Globalized Judaism.” The talk will take place on Friday, February 26, from 11:00 to 12:10 in Baskin Auditorium (Baskin 101). The talk is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies with support from the David B. Gold Foundation.
For almost 50 years, Yiddish American actress Molly Picon spent her life on stage and screen performing in trousers. Why did Picon spend so much time in cross-dressed roles and what might such roles reveal about Jewish American identity in the first half of the 20th century?
