Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History"
Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks, it intruded on US-Russian relations, and it left an imprint on an astonishingly diverse range of institutions including the nascent Jewish army in Palestine, the NAACP, and, most likely, the first version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that incident came to define so much, and for so long?
Professor Deutsch Receives Book Award
Professor Nathaniel Deutsch’s book The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press, 2011), has received the 2013 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore. The book offers the first complete translation of a little known but invaluable ethnographic questionnaire–and the story of an ambitious attempt […]
Celebration of Two New Jewish Studies Books November 13
By Scott Rappaport UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies and University Library will present a celebration of two new books on Jewish Studies–featuring emeritus history professor Peter Kenez; professor of English and comparative literature Murray Baumgarten; and librarian Lee Jaffe–on Wednesday, November 13, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at UCSC’s Stevenson College (Silverman Conference Room) The authors and […]