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The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program and the Department of History are happy to announce the 2024 Emanuel Ringelblum Lecture, "Heretics and Crypto-Christians: The Controversies of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz" with Professor Pawel Maciejko (Johns Hopkins University), Thursday, May 2 at 12 pm in the Andrews Conference Room. Please find more information on the flyer below.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is pleased to share an audio recording of "A Conversation on Antisemitism and Islamophobia" held February 29, 2024 at the International House Davis and co-sponsored by Jewish Studies, Middle East and South Asia Studies, and the Department of Religious Studies.

Congratulations to Susan Gilson Miller, Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Davis, on being inducted into the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco!

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is pleased to share a recording of 70 Faces Media's panel discussion on Jews of color for Black History Month on February 29, 2024. This event was moderated by Bruce Haynes, Professor of Sociology at UC Davis and core faculty member in Jewish Studies! 

The recording can be viewed via the embedded video below or at this link.

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is proud to present a workshop:

Texts and Imaginations: A West Coast Jewish and Christian Antiquity Workshop

March 3, Andrews Conference Room

March 4, Putah Creek Lodge

What can we know about the imaginative lives of Jews and Christians in antiquity? West Coast scholars will share their works in progress in a two-day workshop, modeling how stretching our own scholarly imaginations can unlock new insights into ancient texts.

All are welcome! Please see the schedule below.

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program, Middle East and South Asia Studies, and the Department of Religious Studies invite you to a conversation on Islamophobia and antisemitism, Thursday, February 29 at 4 pm at the Davis International House. This event will feature Sahar Aziz, Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University, and Ethan Katz, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies and Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Please find more information below.

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program and Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies are pleased to present "Environmental Peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine" with Tareq Abu-Hamed, Executive Director of the Arava Insititute for Environmental Studies, on Thursday, February 22 at 3 pm in the Andrews Conference Room SSH 2203. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Please find a flyer and more information below.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program and the Department of Comparative Literature invite you to a screening of the Coen brothers' 2009 film A Serious Man on February 8 at 5:30 pm in the School of Education 174. Refreshments and snacks will be provided. Please find a poster and more info below. We'd love to see you there!

The UC Davis Department of Religious Studies and the Jewish Studies Program invite you to "A Critical History of Zionism and Disability" with Sarah Imhoff, Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University on Thursday, January 18, 2023 at 12 noon in Garrison Room, MU. Vegetarian lunch will be served. 

The German Program and the Jewish Studies program invite you to A Film Evening in Commemoration of the Reichsprogromnacht of November 8-9, 1938 (“Kristallnacht”) on November 9, 2023 at 5pm in Sproul 912. We will be screening Robert Thalheim’s Am Ende kommen Touristen/ And Along Come Tourists (2007, 1 hour, 25 minutes). Sandwiches will be served. Please find more information below, and we look forward to seeing you there.