News and Events

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program is pleased to announce the first event in the New Directions in Jewish Studies 2023 Lecture Series: "(Sex)worker, Migrant, and Daughter: Migratory Prostitution and Jewish Economy in Eastern Europe, 1870-1939," with Aleksandra Jakubczak and Naomi Seidman, responding, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 10 AM PST via Zoom. Please find a poster, abstract, and registration link below.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Launched in 2020, the "New Directions in Jewish Studies" Lecture Series at UC Davis is a one-of-a-kind program that aims to promote the work of scholars doing cutting edge research in Jewish Studies outside the tenure track. This year's three lecturers were selected from a large pool of applicants of extraordinary range and quality, and each will present their research in a virtual talk in 2023. Congratulations to Dr. Aleksandra Jakubczak, Dr. Larisa Reznik, and Dr. Daniella Farah!

January 18, 2023, 10 AM PST

Aleksandra Jakubczak

The UC Davis Jewish Studies program and the Department of Classics are please to present "Christian Nationalism and the Making of the White Evangelical Bible," with Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon. The event will occur in two parts:

October 6 at 5 pm PST, Sproul Hall 912: "Christian Nationalism and the Making of the White Evangelical Bible"

Jill Hicks-Keeton (Oklahoma) and Cavan Concannon (USC) will speak about the complex intersection of politics and religion in contemporary American culture.

This lecture is free and open to all

Dear Friends of Jewish Studies at UC Davis, 

The Jewish Studies Program at UC Davis invites applications for the third annual New Directions in Jewish Studies Lecture Series.

The lectureship carries an honorarium of $1000 and is open exclusively to scholars who do not currently hold a tenured or tenure track position. 

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program invites you to the final lecture of David Biale before his retirement on Thursday, June 2 at 12 pm PDT. The event will be streamed via Zoom.

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program invites you to celebrate our students and faculty! 

Please join us for a reception and presentation of the Don Kunitz Awards for Excellence in Jewish Studies and a celebration of our faculty's achievements this academic year! 

Thursday, May 12, 4-5:30 pm 

Andrews Conference Room 

Social Sciences & Humanities Building 

Hope to see you there! 

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program along with New Lehrhaus and the JFCS Holocaust Center are pleased to present, "Susan Gilson Miller in conversation with David Biale: Years of Glory: Recovering the History of the Holocaust in North Africa," April 28 at 7:00 pm PDT. 

This event is occurring as part of Yom HaShoah 2022 presented by the the JFCS Holocaust Center in partnership with San Francisco synagogues, schools, and community organizations. Please find more information and a registration link below. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

As scholars from the field of disability studies have argued, the category of “disability,” like gender, presents a fundamental category of analysis for historians to examine power relations and identity formation. Drawing on theoretical framework from disabilities studies and the sociology of stigma, this paper examines the negative representations of chronically ill bodies in late antique Palestinian rabbinic literature.

Please register here.

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program invites you to a talk presented by the Departments of German and Russian: 

"Crime and the Experience of the Everyday in Jewish and Non-Jewish Relations"

Klaus Hödl, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor 

Thursday, March 3 | 4 pm | Sproul Hall 912

The UC Davis Jewish Studies Program presents: The Annual Emanuel Ringelblum Lecture 

The Last Days of Emanuel Ringelblum: Hunting Down the Jews in Hiding, Warsaw, 1943-44

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 | 12 pm PST 

In person: Storer Hall 1322 | Virtually: Register here. 

This lecture will examine life stories of individuals who lived on the margins of late medieval German-Jewish societies to re-examine the definition of "belonging" to the Jewish community through its boundaries. After the persecution that followed the Black Death (1348-1351), the legal status of Jews in the German lands had weakened. Many cities chose to expel the Jews, others recanted the privileges granted in earlier centuries. What roles did the fifteenth-century Jewish community play in legal procedures regarding Jewish criminals and transgressors?