December 2, 2010 / 2:00-5:00 PM
Humanities I, Room 620
Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust.
News & Events
Jael Silliman: "Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope"
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora stretched from Basra to Shanghai, with Calcutta acting as an important trading center on that route. During that time Calcutta was home to a thriving Jewish community that played an important role in the City’s mercantile development. […]
Alon Tal: “War, Peace and the Environment in the Middle East”
February 7, 2011 / 7:00-8:00 PM / Humanities 1, Room 210
The history of the Israeli- Arab wars has had environmental implications which are often overlooked.
Marcelo Dimentstein & Alejandro Dujovne: “A fragmented tradition: Jewish studies in Argentina”
February 1, 2011 / 4:00-5:45 PM / Humanities 1 Room 210
Compared with other Jewish Communities in the diaspora, the Argentine Jewish community presents a remarkable paradox.
Joshua Schreier: "Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria"
January 13, 2011 / 12:00-1:45 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210
Joshua Schreier is an Associate Professor of History at Vassar College. He received is BA from the University of Chicago and his MA and Ph.D. from New York University. […]
Professor Dorian Bell awarded Malcolm Bowie Prize
Professor Dorian Bell has been awarded the Malcolm Bowie Prize for the best article in French studies published in 2009 by an early- career scholar. This prize is given by the Society for French Studies; the article is “The Jew as Model: Anti-Semitism, Aesthetics, and Epistemology in the Goncourt Brothers’ Manette Salomon,” Modern Language Notes […]
Ruth Ellen Gruber: “Sauerkraut Cowboys and Klezmer Cafes: Europe’s Real Imaginary Spaces”
October 5, 2010 | 12:00-2:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Jewish Studies will welcome Ruth Gruber to discuss two European trends as analogous phenomena: the “virtually Jewish scene” and codification of what “Jewish” means […]
Anna Sapir Abulafia: “Doing the King’s Service: The Jews in Medieval Europe”
October 8, 2010 | 5:30-6:30 PM | Free & Open to the Public Humanities 1 Building, Room 202, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Dr. Anna Sapir Abulafia is a specialist in Jewish-Christian relations in the European Middle Ages at the Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include: Christians […]
Nathaniel Deutsch Appointed as IHR Director
Nathaniel Deutsch appointed as the director of the Institute for Humanities Research Nathaniel Deutsch is an American religious scholar. He is a specialist in Judaism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity and is on the faculty of University of California, Santa Cruz. He attended the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. as well as his […]
UCSC Approves New Major in Jewish Studies
Students at UC Santa Cruz will now have the opportunity to work toward a B.A. degree in Jewish Studies, beginning this fall. The Jewish Studies major will provide knowledge of Jewish thought, literature, art, and history–with classes taught by faculty across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences divisions. UC Santa Cruz dean of humanities Georges […]