Peter Kenez

Peter Kenez: "The Coming of the Holocaust"

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 […]

Music of the Holocaust, Exile, and Resistance: Class Concert

  February 29, 2012 | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Center, Room 131, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Quartet for the end of times, 5th movement (1941) Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Irene Herrmann – cello Ittai Rosenbaum – piano S’bernt (1938) Mordekhai Gebirtig (1877-1942) Liz Baseman – voice […]

Hagi Kenaan

Hagi Kenaan: "What Makes an Image Ethical?"

  February 27, 2012 | 7:00-9:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Communications Building, Studio C, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Hagi Kenaan (Ph.D, Yale University 1995) is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. He specializes in continental philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art. In […]

Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: "Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives"

Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published […]

Iraqi-Born Israeli Bringing Jewish Mid-East Music to UCSC

International composer, violinist, oud player, and singer Yair Dalal to present concert and lecture on campus, February 2-3, 2012. “Living in Conflict” is a recent documentary film about five Israeli Jewish and Palestinian people, who use art, science, music and poetry as a way of surviving conflict in a region full of constant tension, violence, […]