UCSC Approves New Major in Jewish Studies
Students at UC Santa Cruz will now have the opportunity to work toward a B.A. degree in Jewish Studies, beginning this fall. The Jewish Studies major will provide knowledge of Jewish thought, literature, art, and history–with classes taught by faculty across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences divisions. UC Santa Cruz dean of humanities Georges […]
Paul Mann: "Reading Yehuda Halevi: A Personal Response"
May 19, 2010
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
The talk will connect the poems of Halevi with a narrative of Professor Mann’s own journeys toward Jerusalem and Torah.
David Biale: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought”
May 10, 2010
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Cowell 131
David Biale, the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis, will deliver a public lecture entitled: “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought.” He will discuss Zionism as a movement of Jewish secularism and its roots in the tradition of Jewish secular thought going back to Spinoza.