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February 10, 12 pm PST: "California Reds: Young Jewish Communists in the 1930's," with Caroline Luce

1/12/2021

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Luce will focus her presentation on a cohort of young Jewish activists raised in the Yiddish-speaking immigrant milieu of Los Angeles who came of age in the Young Communist League in the 1920s and 1930s, including Dorothy Ray Healey (née Dorothy Rosenblum), Ben Dobbs (née Ben Isgur), and others who became prominent leaders of the California Communist Party by the 1940s. Placing emphasis on their earliest years in the YCL as teenagers, she will explore how they negotiated the place of Jews and Jewishness within the radical movement and without as a means of revealing a long and oft-overlooked history of Jewish racialization and resistance in interwar California. 

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Also be on the lookout for other upcoming events in the New Directions in Jewish Studies 2021 Lecture Series!
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january 12, 12 pm: "zipporah's knife: a jewish reckoning with race," with elliot ratzman

12/23/2020

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Is antiracism a Jewish virtue? After 1967, Jewish conditions in the U.S., Israel, and Europe have been shaped by new frameworks for understanding racism. Projects articulating critical race theory, anti-Zionism, and decolonization have challenged Jewish self-conceptions as an antiracist community. Jewish thought—ethics, theology, political philosophy—has not sufficiently addressed these challenges. Using the curious case of Zipporah, Moses’ Midianite wife, my lecture addresses ways in which Jewish thought should reckon with the ethical and political issues of racism in the Jewish tradition and in societies where Jews have power and capacity.

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Nittel Nacht Party: December 24, 4 pm PST

12/14/2020

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Join UC Davis Jewish Studies and Prof. Rebecca Wollenberg to discover a 500-year old Jewish Christmas Eve tradition!

Christmas has long been a fraught time for Jews. On Christmas Eve, European Jews would avoid Torah study (still practiced in some communities today), and instead hold loud parties where they would stay up late, gamble, eat garlic, and sometimes read Jewish legends about Jesus. Why? At the time, many Jews AND Christians believed that powerful spiritual forces were at work on Christmas Eve: demons, talking animals, and even a shared Jewish AND Christian folk belief that on this day, Jesus would come back from the dead--sometimes, oddly, to haunt latrines and outhouses, and sometimes to visit Jewish homes. Gathering for a loud party - and eating lots of garlic, a known mode of protection from supernatural forces - was one way Jews got through a holiday that was alienating and sometimes even dangerous, but utterly unavoidable in the Christian world around them.

Prof. Rebecca Wollenberg of the University of Michigan will introduce this tradition and how it draws on spooky Jewish AND Christian Christmas lore, we'll look at some risque Jewish texts (definitely NOT the Torah), and we'll invite guests to share other Jewish Christmas traditions. Bring your own garlic and dice! 

Please register here:  https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdeyuqTkqGNCmHfxxSJs00D-cvmskKLD8

Please find Prof. Wollenberg's article on Nittel Nacht at this link if you'd like to read ahead - not required!! https://www.academia.edu/16775699/The_Ghost_in_the_Privy_The_Origins_of_Nittel_Nacht_and_Modes_of_Cultural_Exchange
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New directions in Jewish studies 2021 calendar

12/7/2020

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The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is pleased to announce the calendar for the New Directions in Jewish Studies 2021 Lecture Series. Please find more information below, as well as registration links.
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Elliot Ratzman, “Zipporah’s Knife: A Jewish Reckoning With Race”
Tuesday, January 12, 2020, 12 PM PST
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Caroline Luce, “California Reds: Young Jewish Communists in the 1930’s”
Wednesday, February 10, 12 PM PST
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Moyagaye Bedward, “Narrating Belonging: Haratin Performance of Indigeneity Through Moroccan Jewish History and Artifacts, 1934-1956”
Tuesday, March 2, 12 PM PST
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Deborah Forger, “The Embodied God in Ancient Jewish Tradition”
Wednesday, April 14, 12 PM PST
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Maxwell Greenberg, “A Palestine on the Pacific: Four Decades of Jewish Territorial Dreaming in Baja California”
Tuesday, May 4, 12 PM PST
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Announcing the uc davis new directions in jewish studies lecture series

11/3/2020

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The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is happy to announce the lineup for the inaugural New Directions in Jewish Studies Lecture Series. Please find more information below and be on the lookout for these upcoming events!
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October 20, 12pm: Using  Embodied  interviews  to  understand nature  experiences

9/25/2020

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In recent years, researchers have come to recognize the importance of understanding the cultural significance of nature for people. However, methods to evaluate those services and values often miss the authentic and complex nature of experiences and relationships that people have with nature. For the past several years, Dr. Yael Teff-Seker has employed an embodied approach to the evaluation of cultural ecosystem services, as she interviewed people while walking with them in nature. The study took place in a variety of places and landscapes, including the Negev desert (Israel), the island of Texel (Netherlands), an old growth sub-arctic forest (Finland), and the Scottish Highlands (UK). An analysis of these cases has highlighted the benefits of the embodied approach, and its ability to bring forward what was previously disregarded as mere background. Finally, the study findings suggest certain common, potentially universal, aspects of nature experiences.
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sep 24, 12 pm - a teach-in on jewish studies, race, and anti-racism

9/22/2020

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Oct. 8, 12 pm:   judaism  and  the  black  experience                                                                                                          with   bruce  d.  haynes

9/15/2020

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Myths of Meritocracy and the Hebrew Bible with Eva Mroczek - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 , 5PM  PST

9/1/2020

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Contact: Prof. Rachel Gross, rbgross@sfsu.edu
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March 6, 12:00pm--"Between fauda and Shtisel: Minorities and the Re-shaping of Israeli TV"

1/27/2020

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