May 19, 2010
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
The talk will connect the poems of Halevi with a narrative of Professor Mann’s own journeys toward Jerusalem and Torah.
News & Events
David Biale: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought”
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.
Courtney Bender: “The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination”
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.
Harriet Murav: “Poetry After Kerch: Representing Jewish Mass Death in the Soviet Union”
Why was there no Holocaust in Soviet Russia? There were killings, but the killings did not take on the same meaning as in the West, where the Holocaust emerged as a unique and paradigmatic set of events. Official Soviet history is part of the reason for the absence of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union. The term “Holocaust” itself did not have broad currency in the West during the 40s and it was not used in Russian until the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s. Nonetheless, Soviet literature, almost completely neglected by scholars and critics, confronts the impossible history of the destruction of the Jews, but not in the same terms as Holocaust literature in the West.
Inventing America’s Worst Family Awarded Honorable Mention
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.
Benjamin Lapp: “Jews in Germany or German Jews?”
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.
Shira Stav: “Father-Daughter Relationships in Modern Hebrew Women’s Poetry”
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.”
Peter Kenez: “The Holocaust and Modern Antisemitism”
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.
Avi Tchamni: Music of Modern Israel Course
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.
Carolina López-Ruiz: “The Orientalizing Phenomenon: A Western Mediterranean Perspective”
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
5:00PM – 6:30PM
Humanities I, Room 202