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Congratulations to the 2013 Don Kunitz Award Winners for your excellent work in Jewish Studies!

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is pleased to announce the three 2013 Don Kunitz Award prize winners, they are: Rachel Nim-chi Pevsner (1st Prize, Short Essay), Brittany Gatchell (2nd Prize, Short Essay) and Hannah Goldner (Creative Work). Congratulations Rachel, Brittany, and Hannah on your excellent work in Jewish Studies!

All are welcome to attend our end-of-the-year event and celebration.The Don Kunitz Award for Academic Excellence in Jewish Studies Award Ceremony & Reception will take place on Wednesday, May 29th from 3-5pm in Sproul 912. Please check the "Awards" page for more information on Mr. Don Kunitz.

Fall Quarter 2013 Courses are posted!

We have an exciting line-up of course offerings to start off the 2013-2014 academic year, please check the courses page for full course descriptions and schedules.

Jewish Studies Faculty in the News!

Watch an interview with Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History David Biale:

With a resurgence of anti-Semitism across Europe, promoting Jewish culture can be a powerful vehicle for confronting anti-Semitism and strengthening a positive Jewish identity. Here in Germany, the Jewish Studies Department at Frankfurt University continues its highly respected conference series on the cultural history of the Jews with American historian David Biale, a leading international expert on Jewish history and culture. With Jewish communities now present in 75 countries, Jewish culture and Jewish identity are beginning to play an increasingly larger role in a globalized, multicultural world.

Featured Spring 2013 Courses

Visiting Professor Ela Bauer is offering 2 exciting courses during her final quarter here at UC Davis:

HIS 102X: Comparative History: Eastern European Jewry

Until 1939, Eastern European Jewry was a large and vivid Jewish center. Throughout the hundreds of years of existence, this Jewish center sprawled on several geographic regions that were under different political regimes. This center was the house of different political, cultural, religious, and ideological movements. Some of these movements, such as Hassidism, Bund, and the Zionist movement, changed the nature of Judaism in the modern era. In this class, we will study the cultural, political, social and economic history of this Jewry, through intensive reading, discussion, and writing on selected topics that will extend our understanding of this Jewry from comparative perspectives.

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HIS 142B: Memory of the Holocaust in Israel

The memory of the Holocaust, one of the most traumatic events in the 20^th century, was already constructed by the end of the 1940s in different parts of the world. Since then, it has continued to change and re-form throughout the years. In different Jewish centers around the world, to remember and not to forget the Holocaust had become a new ‘religious’ commandment. For the State of Israel, this traumatic event had an essential place in political and cultural discourse, and for the formation of modern Israeli identity. Through an examination of the different responses to the Holocaust (via literature, films and media), this class will study how the memory of the Holocaust in Israel is constructed-- by whom and for what purpose.

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WELCOME!

Congratulations to the 2013 Don Kunitz Award Winners for your excellent work in Jewish Studies!

Fall Quarter 2013 Courses are posted!