CFP: Summer Workshop on The Ghetto of Venice: The Future of Memory in the Digital Age
Summer Workshop for Early Career Scholars on Liminal Spaces and Jewish Identity Tuesday, June 28 – Sunday, July 5, 2016 | Venice, Italy The ghetto—the stereotype and the iconic image of the Jews who lived there—was and still is today one of the most misunderstood of modern Jewish spaces as well as one of […]
UC Santa Cruz Launches New Legacy Course on the Holocaust with Coursera
By Scott Rappaport. UC Santa Cruz has launched a new version of its free online course, The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, through the Coursera platform. The course was developed and is taught by professors Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez, based on their acclaimed UC Santa Cruz class that they taught in-person on campus for […]
2015 Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards
It is with great enthusiasm that the Center for Jewish Studies announces that the following undergraduates have received Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards for the 2014-2015 year: Noah Barerra-Stanford, “Jewish Folk Medicine from the Baal Shem Tov to An-sky and Beyond”—drawing on primary sources in Yiddish, this paper demonstrated that the Hasidic movement, from its […]