The Department of Religion, Culture and Society at the University of California, Davis invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level beginning July 1, 2027 in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Religion with additional competency in Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish history, thought, and practice more broadly. Knowledge of the different texts of the Hebrew Bible in its ancient context and of the history and cultures of ancient Israel and Judaism is required.
Please join us in welcoming Na'ama Rokem, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, in presenting her book Zionism in Translation, for our fall quarter Books and Bagels event.
Please join us and Yonatan Binyam, Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean and Ethiopic Studies at UC Berkeley, in his talk titled "Out of Egypt: The Origins of Civilization in American Ethnology and the Against Apion".
Please join us in congratulating our very own Professor Sven-Erik Rose on winning the Eva-Reichmann-Book Prize!
Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos, Professor Rose's prize-winning book, examines the work of Yiddish writers who produced literature in Nazi-era ghettos. The jury recognized Rose's thoughtful approach to these texts and his attention to the ways these writers and their experiences have been remembered, bringing renewed attention to these authors and the circumstances in which they wrote.
Please join us in congratulating Alma Gur and Riley Martin, the recipients of the 2026 Kunitz Award!
Alma’s paper, “Reproductive and Sexual Regulation in the Tanakh,” combines contemporary conversations surrounding women’s bodies with an in-depth analysis of the Hebrew Bible. Through careful textual analysis, she constructs a compelling account of fertility, barrenness, and virginity as tools used by divine and patriarchal authority to regulate and define women. Her paper offers a thoughtful and insightful examination of gender and power in biblical texts.
Professor Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss (Tel Aviv University) in conversation with Sven-Erik Rose about her book, The People’s Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942–June 1943 (Brandeis University Press, in association with Yad Vashem, 2026)
Please join us for our Spring Books and Bagels event. Professor Carey Seal, UC Davis Professor in Classics, will be presenting on "Philo of Alexandria and Philosophy as a Way of Life".
CONTESTING COSMOGRAPHIESMuslim Views of the Cosmos from Late Antiquity to Modernity A public lecture by Dr. Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) Monday, May 114:30 – 6:00 PM (lecture & Q&A)Everson 157Open to the public · All are welcome ------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE TALKFrom the Qur'anic commentaries of the second/eighth century to theeventual triumph of Copernicanism, Muslim thinkers held — andcontested — radically different visions of the cosmos.
Sven-Erik Rose, Book Talk in the series “Flight or Fight: Stories of Artists under Repression,” hosted by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, New York, February 25, 2026. This lecture focuses on Leyb Goldin’s autobiographical Warsaw Ghetto story “Khronik fun a mes-les” (“Chronicle of 24 hours”).
