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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.

The Jewish Studies Program invites you to join us for Books & Bagels!

Presenters in this series—who can be faculty members, undergraduate or graduate students, librarians, staff members, or anyone else in the UC Davis community—will offer some informal remarks, oriented toward our undergraduate students, on a Jewish book (in any way they define "Jewish book") that they find interesting and significant personally or professionally, or both.

Abstract: This lecture will explore the connections between Vienna and Vilna, the homeland of psychoanalysis where its Jewish character was anxiously debated, and the Eastern European offshoot where "Jewish Science" was openly embraced. In particular, we will explore the relationship between Freud and Max Weinreich, his "authorized" Yiddish translator and the researcher who attempted to use psychoanalytic tools to understand what Jewishness might mean in the modern moment.

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program cordially invites you to “Recovered Voices,” a two-day event held exclusively at the UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on April 10 and 11, 2023. This event is a product of the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices, a unique Colburn School of Music program that encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were disrupted—or worse—during the years of the Nazi regime in Europe.

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is pleased to announce the final event in the New Directions in Jewish Studies 2023 Lecture Series: "'We are also Iranians and we have rights in this home': Jewish Identity and Belonging in Twentieth-century Iran" with Daniella Farah and Lior Sternfeld, responding, Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 12 PM PDT via Zoom. Please find a poster, abstract, and registration link below. 

We look forward to seeing you there!