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
Ethan Michaeli: “The Holocaust and The Defender: Two Generations of Jewish Reporters at a Black Newspaper”
December 2, 2010 / 2:00-5:00 PM
Humanities I, Room 620
Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust.
Jael Silliman: "Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope"
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora stretched from Basra to Shanghai, with Calcutta acting as an important trading center on that route. During that time Calcutta was home to a thriving Jewish community that played an important role in the City’s mercantile development. […]
Alon Tal: “War, Peace and the Environment in the Middle East”
February 7, 2011 / 7:00-8:00 PM / Humanities 1, Room 210
The history of the Israeli- Arab wars has had environmental implications which are often overlooked.