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!
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!
