Professor Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss (Tel Aviv University) in conversation with Sven-Erik Rose about her book, The People’s Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942–June 1943 (Brandeis University Press, in association with Yad Vashem, 2026)
Please join us for our Spring Books and Bagels event. Professor Carey Seal, UC Davis Professor in Classics, will be presenting on "Philo of Alexandria and Philosophy as a Way of Life".
CONTESTING COSMOGRAPHIESMuslim Views of the Cosmos from Late Antiquity to Modernity A public lecture by Dr. Omar Anchassi (University of Bern) Monday, May 114:30 – 6:00 PM (lecture & Q&A)Everson 157Open to the public · All are welcome ------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT THE TALKFrom the Qur'anic commentaries of the second/eighth century to theeventual triumph of Copernicanism, Muslim thinkers held — andcontested — radically different visions of the cosmos.
Sven-Erik Rose, Book Talk in the series “Flight or Fight: Stories of Artists under Repression,” hosted by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized, and Banned Art, New York, February 25, 2026. This lecture focuses on Leyb Goldin’s autobiographical Warsaw Ghetto story “Khronik fun a mes-les” (“Chronicle of 24 hours”).
Please join us for our Winter Books and Bagels event. Professor Joshua Shanes, Emanual Ringelblum of Jewish History, will be presenting and discussing his book Orthodoxy: A Modern Denomination.
After a screening of the short film Mazel Tov Cocktail (directed by Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch, 2020), Professors Jenny Kaminer and Sven-Erik Rose facilitated a lively discussion. Naturally over bagels.
Please join us in congratulating Sasha Lehrer and Ronnie Ottaway, the recipients of the 2025 Kunitz Award!
Sasha's paper was entitled "Time and Timelessness in Solomon Maimon’s Autobiography." The panel reviewing papers said that Sasha's paper is remarkable as she writes adeptly about Maimon’s different uses of temporal simultaneity and juxtaposition, on the one hand, and linear chronology, on the other, to emphasize continuities and discontinuities between different periods in his life and intellectual journey.
Thursday, May 22 12:00pm Sproul Hall, 912 Please join us for our Spring Books & Bagels event. Dr. Naomi Janowitz, Professor of Religious Studies here at UC Davis will be giving a talk on Thursday, May 22 at noon in Sproul Hall 912. The talk is entitled "Inscrutable Meanings: What the Book of Daniel Teaches us about Text Interpretation" We look forward to seeing you!
Join us in celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month! Chancellor May and Dr. Sven-Erik Rose, director of the UC Davis Jewish Studies Program, invite everyone to honor the culture, history, and contributions of the Jewish American community.
Join us for a discussion panel on Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Israel-Palestine in the Context of Current Attacks on Academic and Political Freedoms, examining how these issues are influencing public debate, academic spaces, and political expression.
Speakers:
Professor David Myers, Distinguished Professor & Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History University of California, Los Angeles
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!
