May 10, 2010
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Cowell 131
David Biale, the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis, will deliver a public lecture entitled: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought.” He will discuss Zionism as a movement of Jewish secularism and its roots in the tradition of Jewish secular thought going back to Spinoza.
May 13, 2010
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
J. Baskin Engineering, Room 372
Courtney Bender, Associate Professor of Religion at Columbia University, will engage in a public dialogue with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch on her new book The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination.
Nathaniel Deutsch’s book Inventing America’s Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael, (UC Press) received an Honorable Mention by the 2010 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians.
May 3, 2010, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Humanities 1, Room 210 | This talk will deal with a number of issues related to the theme of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Center for Jewish Studies visiting scholar from Ben-Gurion University, Shira Stav, will give a talk entitled “Father-Daughter Relationships in Modern Hebrew Women’s Poetry.”
Saturday, April 17
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Professor Peter Kenez will discuss the recent book Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse edited by Kenez and two of his UCSC colleagues, Professors Baumgarten and Thompson.
The development of art and popular music in Israel, the complexity of national identity inherent in the study of immigrant and refugee societies, and the power struggle between the different forces involved in the process: the state and its institutions, the people, and the outside world.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
5:00PM – 6:30PM
Humanities I, Room 202
March 23, 2010 | 7:30-8:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris Par Nathaniel Deutsch, directeur du département d’études juives de l’université de Santa Cruz (Californie), spécialiste du hassidisme et de la pensée gnostique, auteur de The Maiden of Ludmir, […]
The Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that following a national competition, it has received a grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation to fund a two-year long teaching fellowship in Jewish studies.
