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.
The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program, Department of German and Russian, and Department of History invite you to a talk by Dr. Claire Aubin, Lecturer in History at UC Davis: "'A Nazi's Day of Judgement': The Immigrant Holocaust Perpetrator in the American Media Landscape." This event will be held May 28 at 4 pm in Sproul 912. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Please find a flyer and more information below.
The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Department of German & Russian are pleased to present a talk by Professor Wolf Gruner (USC) based on his book Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany. This event will be held May 16 at 5pm in Sproul 912. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Please see the flyer and more information below.
The Department of Religious Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, Middle East/South Asia Studies, and the Program in Human Rights Studies at UC Davis invite you to the following event:
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.
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.
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.
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.
The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is pleased to announce the second event in the New Directions in Jewish Studies 2023 Lecture Series: "Our Rosenzweig, Ourselves: Or, What Does Gender Critique Want?" with Larisa Reznik and Mara Benjamin, responding, Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 12 PM PDT via Zoom. Please find a poster, abstract, and registration link below.
