Featured Past Events

“UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie”

Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception

Morris Ratner: “A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust”

Shaul Bassi, “From Shakespeare to Erica Jong: Jewish Women and Cultural Politics”

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference Part 1

Maurice Samuels: “French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference”

Murray Baumgarten “Mattering Map” Dan Jacobson and the Mapping of Heshel’s Kingdom: A Split / Screen Family Album

Dan Jacobson and the  Mapping of Heshel’s Kingdom: A Split / Screen Family Album

“Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums”

Murray Baumgarten: “The Letters Propelled Me: Resisting Kristallnacht Then and Now”

Dora Sorell: “Tell the Children” – Holocaust Survivor Tells Her Story

Clive Sinclair: “One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home”

Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination Conference Part 2

Steven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History”

Murray Baumgarten “Primo Levi, the Ghetto, Exile, the Lager, and The Periodic Table ”

Primo Levi