The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program would like to announce the 2024-2025 Don and Charlene Kunitz Award for Excellence in Jewish Studies and the Jewish Studies Minor Scholarship Award! Both vary from $200-$500. Applications are due by Tuesday, April 15, 2025.
There will be an online Roundtable ‘Writing Experiences of Ghettos, Killing Centres, and Camps in Eastern Europe’, with Sandra Alfers, Erin McGlothlin, and Sven-Erik Rose, hosted by the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, and chaired by Stuart Taberner.
A wonderful interview with Drs. Sven-Erik Rose and Mairaj Syed has been published by the Letters and Science Magazine about their collaborative work to critically understand and counter antisemitism and islamophobia. Promoting Critical Thinking and Context Amid Conflict Read it here
Please join the German Department, Department of Cinema Studies, and Jewish Studies on March 6, 5:10-6:30pm in Olson 18A for a talk by Brad Prager from University of Missouri entitled "A Filmmaker and Refugee: Kurt Gerron's Time in Amsterdam and Westerbork." More information can be found on the attached flier. We hope to see you there!
We are excited to announce our upcoming talk, given by Dr. Hannah Pollin-Galay, Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University and Director of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture. Her talk is entitled “Sex, Violence and Speech in the Holocaust: The Case of Yiddish”. Please find the information below and the flier attached. We look forward to seeing you there! Monday, November 18 Sproul Hall 912, 4:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Bagels & Books returns! Dr. Itay Eisinger kicks us off with his talk, “‘Haifa, Which Is Like a Ratty Looking Bronx’: Allen Ginsberg's Visits to Israel.” This talk explores Allen Ginsberg's complicated relationships with Israel, Jewishness, and his family.
