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November 9, 2017 – Rescue in Latin America: Refuge From The Holocaust

CVHEN & KOH Library & Cultural Center are proud to present Kristallnacht Rescue in Latin America: Refuge From The Holocaust with honored guest speakers Dr. Murray Baumgarten Hillel Salomon November 9, 2017 at 6:30pm KOH Library and Cultural Center 2300 Sierra Boulevard Sacramento, CA 95825

Najat Abdulhaq

November 1, 2017 @ 12pm – Najat Abdulhaq, “Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature”

For decades, two official nationalist narratives, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere, with documentaries, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? Najat Abulhaq is the author of […]

Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now

November 7, 2017 @ 6pm – Freedom, Justice, & Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now

  Karin Coonrod, the Founding Director of Compagnia de’ Colombari, will join Nathaniel Deutsch and Sean Keilen for a public discussion of her path-breaking production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venice Ghetto (2016). Join us to discover why Shakespeare’s play about Jews and Christians in Renaissance Italy is a key text for deciding […]

2016 – 2017 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards

The Jewish Studies Program invites submissions for the 2016-2017 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards. To encourage and reward outstanding research and writing on Jewish themes by undergraduates at UCSC, the Awards Committee will select four outstanding essays or senior theses that represent distinguished examples of undergraduate scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies. Students should […]