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, […]

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 […]

  April 4, 2012 | 5:00-7:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Clive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction, travel, and autobiography, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career he was selected as one of the […]

University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by Peter Kenez, Professor of History, Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz   March 15, 2012 | 7:00-9:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information A Holocaust survivor and […]