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.
Events
Adriana M. Brodsky: “Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)”
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | 2:00-3:45 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type […]
Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC
Sunday, April 28, 2013 | 3:00-4:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Stevenson College, Fireside Lounge, UC Santa Cruz Questions? ihr@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-5655 Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication’s 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted […]
“Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” Screening and Q&A with Director Duki Dror
February 25, 2013 | 7:30-9:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Theater Arts Center, Media Theater (M110), UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Watch the Trailer Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn, whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the […]
James Young: "Stages of Memory: In Berlin & New York"
March 8, 2013 | 9:30-10:40 AM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Reception following lecture. James E. Young is Professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught since 1988, and currently Chair of […]
Dora Sorell: "Tell the Children"
February 13, 2013 | 9:30-10:40 AM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Reception following lecture. Dora Sorell grew up in the small town of Sighet in Northern Romania between the two World Wars. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz […]
Michael Thaler: “Role of Bio-Science and Medicine in Nazi Radical Policies and the Holocaust”
February 11, 2013 | 9:30-10:40 AM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Reception to follow. Michael Thaler is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Medicine, UC San Francisco, and a Lecturer in History, UC Santa Cruz.
David Myers: "A Hasidic Town in New York? As American as Apple Pie?"
February 25, 2013 | 5:00-6:45 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information David Myers is professor of Jewish history and chair of the UCLA History Department. He is currently at work with Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) on a book on the Satmar […]
Clive Sinclair: "Zion Down Under, or Israel through the Looking Glass"
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 […]
Phaedon Sinis to Lecture on the Music of the Ottoman Empire
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 […]