THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES AT UC SANTA CRUZ
An intellectual and programming hub for public events, research projects,
and collaborations devoted to the exploration of Jewish culture and history
Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster’s Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology"
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish culture to point toward new […]
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: "Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement"
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. […]
Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II "
Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the […]