Award-winning documentarian Duki Dror in-residence at UCSC this winter as visiting artist By Scott Rappaport. UCSC’s Film and Digital Media Department will present a free public screening of award-winning Israeli documentarian Duki Dror’s acclaimed film Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions on February 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Media Theater. The screening will be followed by a Q&A […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The Humanities Division is pleased to announce an online component for the Literature/History course, “The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry.” Co-taught for over 20 years by Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus, History, this hybrid course offers both online and on-campus elements and resources. Students on […]
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. […]
