Monday, April 14, 2014 | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Social Sciences 2 Building, Room 121, UC Santa Cruz Questions? ihr@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5655. The winding way to peace in Israel and Palestine requires addressing challenges in the intersection between leaders, society and the political context. […]
Morris Ratner is best known for prosecuting Holocaust-era private law claims against Swiss, German, Austrian, and French entities that profited from Nazi atrocities. These organizations profited by retaining dormant bank accounts, failing to pay on life insurance policies, and benefitting from the use of slave labor. Ratner’s litigation resulted in a series of settlements that, together, yielded payments in excess of $8 billion to victims of Nazi persecution.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | 3:30-4:40 PM | Free & Open to the Public Social Sciences 2, Room 75, UC Santa Cruz Questions? ihr@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-3527 Rabbi Professor Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of […]
Friday, February 28, 2014 | 3:30-4:40 PM | Free & Open to the Public Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Questions? ihr@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5655 This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography, it pays close […]
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 | 10:00-11:45 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Dr. Hedwig C. Rose, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University, was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After her father, his five brothers and […]
Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections Thursday, January 30, 2014 | 4:30-5:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Special Collections, McHenry Library (3rd floor), UC Santa Cruz Questions? ihr@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5655 UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of […]
Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks, it intruded on US-Russian relations, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine, the NAACP, and, most likely, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much, and for so long?
Thursday, December 5, 2013 | 6:00-7:45 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Julia Phillips Cohen is Assistant Professor in the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi […]
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 | 6:00-7:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College, UC Santa Cruz Questions? ihr@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5655 Please join us for a celebration of two recently published books: The Coming of the Holocaust: From Anti-Semitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez, and The Jewish Street: […]
For most Americans, the phrase “Jewish education” summons images of Hebrew School. But, Hebrew School, or even what we might call “formal Jewish education” amounts to only a very small percentage of where and how people learn to be Jewish.
