November 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm | Humanities 1, Room 210 “In my time I have seen many Shylocks ….. But never before have I seen seven […]
Events
Summer Workshop in Venice for Early Career Scholars on Liminal Spaces and Jewish Identity
Venice, Italy June 28th – July 5th, 2016 Generously Supported by the Delmas Foundation The Ghetto of Venice: The Future of Memory in the Digital Age 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 […]
Tony Michels: “Soviet America: The Russian Revolution in Jewish Life”
Thursday, April 21, 2016 Humanities Room 210, UCSC 10am-11:45am Directions and Parking The Russian Revolution of 1917 radically altered American Jewish politics. Whereas most Americans viewed the revolution as a threat to western civilization, Jews wished for the success of the Bolsheviks, who offered the only possibility of rescue from the mass slaughter carried out […]
ISRAELI MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA!
Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! DRUMS: Gary Kehoe GUITARS: Nelsen Hutchison BASS: Etienne David Franc SAXOPHONES: Anne Stafford KEYBOARD: Avi Tchamni PERCUSSION: Noam Harel Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall The show is FREE for all Doors open at 8:00pm For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.
Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | 12:15-6:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public 210 Humanities Building 1, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information This conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and time. […]
Todd Presner: “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities”
2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Wednesday, February 24, 2016 | 4:00-6:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public 210 Humanities Building 1, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information With more than 52,000 testimonies, 100,000+ hours of video footage, and a database of some 6 million records, the […]
Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | 12:00-1:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities Building 2, Room 259, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and […]
Shaul Bassi: “Shylock vs. Sarra Copia Sullam: Reframing the Venice Ghetto, 1516-2016”
Friday, January 29, 2016 | 4:00-6:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Cowell Provost House, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information The Ghetto of Venice, founded 500 years ago, has been long haunted by the ghostly presence of Shylock, the most famous imaginary Jew. The lecture will consider Shakespeare alongside the […]
Hedy Rose: “My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945”
Thursday, January 21, 2016 | 7:00-8:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian Samaritan. Please join us for […]
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. […]