UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Calendar of Events 2014-2015

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ANNUAL CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2014 - 2015

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Open HouseLearn about the Center’s projects and programs and find out about Jewish studies classes. Meet our majors, minors, faculty, and alumni. Open to the public.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 314 ROYCE HALL • 4 PM

Democratic and Jewish? Religion and State in Israel TodayYuval Sinai (Bar-Ilan University/ Yale)Sinai will explore the way Judaism, as a religion and culture, and its legal tradition–the halakhah–is incorporated into the secular legal system of the state of Israel and, more broadly, the role of Judaism and Jewish values in Israel. Whereas most other ancient legal systems are no longer relevant, Jewish law continues to have great vitality and adaptability, allowing it to contribute to the solution of contemporary legal problems.

Sponsored by theUCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Cosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesFor more information contact [email protected]

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014 10383 BUNCHE HALL • 4:30 PM

Transforming 20th Century Culture into 21st Century Idioms: Israeli Art and the Work of Marc ChagallAnat Gilboa (UCLA)This talk will discuss how Chagall’s iconic representations of Jewish weddings, music, and theater have been reimagined to create an idiosyncratic new reality for Israeli art.

Sponsored by theCalifornia Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language UCLA Department of Germanic Languages Cosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesFor more information and to RSVP contact [email protected]

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2014 314 ROYCE HALL • 4 PM

Ladino’s Controversial HistoryOlga Borovaya (Stanford)For more than a century, everything related to the history and use of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) has been a matter of disagreement among scholars. In this talk on the Ibero-Romance language used by Sephardi Jews in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean in the 16th through mid-20th centuries, Borovaya will offer a history of the Sephardi vernacular and elucidate some of the myths and misconceptions surrounding the language.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies

306 ROYCE HALL • 12 PMTUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014

Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies

It Started in SighetPhotography by Louis Davidson This amazing exhibit presents a sample of the more than 300 synagogues documented in 360° virtual reality at www.Synagogues360.org. The project began with a visit to Sighet, Romania in 2003 by architect-photographer, Louis Davidson, and his wife Ronnie. Seeing that magnificent relics of their Jewish heritage were deteriorating after the Holocaust and dwindling Jewish population, the Davidsons decided to photographically preserve European synagogues for posterity. The project soon expanded globally and now represents buildings in 36 countries.

Sponsored byUCLA HillelCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesFor more information and to RSVP visit www.uclahillel.org

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 UCLA HILLEL • 7 PM

A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New YorkLiana Finck (Author)The original “A Bintel Brief” (“A Bundle of Letters”) was an advice column for Jews fresh off the boat in The Jewish Daily Forward, a.k.a. The Forverts, a feature regarded by many as the prototype for “Dear Abby.” This seminar will discuss Liana Finck’s new, widely acclaimed graphic novel, A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York (Ecco, 2014), which brings a selection of these letters to life and includes an imaginative conversation with the paper’s editor, Abraham Cahan.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Germanic Languages Forward HarperCollins

306 ROYCE HALL • 12 PMTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Ross Seminar in Yiddish Studies

Languages of Everyday Writing in the Medieval Islamic World: History, Methodology, Digital Prospects

The Cairo Geniza consists of over 380,000 fragments of writing composed between 870 and 1896 CE. While most are biblical, Talmudic, and rabbinic texts, the Geniza’s 8,000-18,000 ‘documentary’ fragments offer a unique window on daily Jewish life. However, since the contracts, doctors’ prescriptions, shopping lists, and business letters are written in dialects of medieval vernacular Arabic in Hebrew characters, often interspersed with Hebrew and Aramaic, very few scholars have direct access to them. This academic workshop, intended by invitation for faculty and graduate students, is part of an effort to develop a research website to make these remarkable primary sources more accessible. In conjunction with the workshop, Marnina Rustow (Johns Hopkins) will give a public talk on her research on the medieval Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate using documentary texts from the Cairo Geniza.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic StudiesUCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish StudiesUCLA History DepartmentUCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

314 ROYCE HALLDECEMBER 7-8, 2014

International Workshop on the Digital Geniza

The Holocaust in FarsiAri Babaknia (Author)The Holocaust has not been taught in schools in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Indeed, in recent years, some Holocaust revisionist history and even neo-Nazi ideology has been offered to university-level students. Holocaust, the first Farsi-language nonfiction work on the subject, describes the rise of Nazism in Germany to the final days of World War II in three volumes, featuring graphic photographs from the era as well as U.S. and European government documents. The fourth volume chronicles other 20th century genocides.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Department of Germanic Languages

306 ROYCE HALL • 12 PMTUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015

The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies

The Holocaust in FarsiAri Babaknia (Author)The Holocaust has not been taught in schools in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Indeed, in recent years, some Holocaust revisionist history and even neo-Nazi ideology has been offered to university-level students. Holocaust, the first Farsi-language nonfiction work on the subject, describes the rise of Nazism in Germany to the final days of World War II in three volumes, featuring graphic photographs from the era as well as U.S. and European government documents. The fourth volume chronicles other 20th century genocides.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Department of Germanic Languages

306 ROYCE HALL • 12 PMTUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015

The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies

Jewish Refugees in ApuliaFabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce, Italy)At the end of WWII, more than 250,000 Jewish refugees lived in DP camps in Germany, Austria and Italy which were set up under the aegis of the UN and the Allied Forces, with the support of international Jewish organizations. Since 2000, Fabrizio Lelli has been collecting documents and personal testimonies from former refugees in the Apulia region of southern Italy. Traumatized, unable or unwilling to return to their former homes, many were stuck in a Mediterranean limbo, trying to recover from the war but without knowing where they would—or could—go next.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Italian Cultural Institute Cosponsored by theUCLA Department of Italian

TBA • 6PMWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015

Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies The Late Agnon and the Re-Imagining of Galician JewryAlan Mintz (JTS)During the fifteen years before his death in 1970, S. Y. Agnon wrote an epic cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town in which he grew up. This project represents a unique response to the Holocaust and an unprecedented effort to re-imagine the inner life of Polish Jewry during its golden age.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Comparative Literature With the generous support of Milt & Sheila Hyman

314 ROYCE HALL • 4PMTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies

They Were Promised the SeaKathy Wazana (Film Director), Alma Heckman (UCLA), Gil Hochberg (UCLA)They Were Promised the Sea is an intimate journey shot in Morocco, Israel-Palestine, and New York about Arab Jews struggling with a hybrid identity. Kathy Wazana’s research into her family origins in Morocco unleashes a complex web of questions about dual identity, political opportunism, and the challenges faced by those torn between Homeland and Promised Land.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies UCLA Department of History

314 ROYCE HALL • 4PMWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Film Screening

HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital HumanitiesTodd Presner (UCLA), David Shepard (UCLA), Yoh Kawano (UCLA)HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities describes the ethics of mapping the past and present. The authors examine the time-layers of Jewish Berlin, the media archaeology of Google Earth, the cultural–historical meaning of map projections, and explore recent events—such as the “Arab Spring” and the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster—through social media mapping that incorporates data visualizations, photographic documents, and Twitter streams. http://thebook.hypercities.com

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Digital Humanities Program UCLA Institute for Digital Research and EducationUCLA LibraryUCLA Department of Comparative LiteratureUCLA Department of Germanic Languages

11360 CHARLES E. YOUNG RESEARCH LIBRARY • 4 PM

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Book Launch

For the Good of Tomorrow, Preserve YesterdayDr. Piotr Cywiński (Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum)Twenty years ago, the International Auschwitz Council confronted this harsh reality: the ravages of time were devouring every barrack, building, shoe and suitcase remaining from the twisted world that was Auschwitz-Birkenau under the Nazis. Join Piotr Cywiński, a historian with a background in inter-religious dialogue, for a stimulating and provocative presentation of how the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum, a pilgrimage destination for 1.5 million annual visitors from around the world, functions in contemporary Poland, and what is needed to maintain it.

Sponsored byUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesUCLA HillelCosponsored by theUCLA Department of History

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 UCLA HILLEL • 7 PM

It Did Happen Here: Anti-Nazi Activism in Los Angeles Concurrent with the Skirball Cultural Center exhibition:Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933–1950October 23, 2014–March 1, 2015

Caroline Luce (UCLA), Laura Rosenzweig (San Francisco State)Hitler’s ascent to power in Germany in 1933 gave rise to a wave of shocking, public displays of anti-Semitism in Los Angeles and the formation of several local fascist organizations, including the German American Bund. While some responded to these developments with indifference, Jewish residents actively mobilized their community, forming new organizations to combat both Hitler’s murderous campaign abroad and his local supporters. Historians Laura Rosenzweig and Caroline Luce will discuss their forthcoming digital exhibit on this little known chapter in Los Angeles history.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of History

314 ROYCE HALL • 4PMTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Mapping Jewish Los Angeles Lecture

The Book of Genesis in the Western Imagination Ronald Hendel (UC Berkeley)The book of Genesis has had a surprising and momentous life in Western culture, from its birth in the ancient Middle East to current controversies about sex and science. The ways that people read Genesis and the ways that they understand the world have long been intertwined. Hendel will explore some of these byways, including Genesis as apocalypse, allegory, mysticism, and literature.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

306 ROYCE HALL • 12PMMONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2015

Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series

Was Ancient Israel a Patriarchal Society? Carol Meyers (Duke)The answer to this question, surprisingly, is not an automatic “yes.” This presentation will examine the origins of this designation, which assumes a hierarchical male-dominated structure for Israelite society. Recent research using archaeological and ethnographic data in addition to biblical texts challenges the patriarchal-hierarchical model and proposes another one that may be more appropriate for the complexities of Israelite society.


306 ROYCE HALL • 12PMTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015


How to Accept German ReparationsSusan Slyomovics (UCLA)In a landmark process after the Holocaust, Germany created the largest sustained redress program in history, amounting to more than $60 billion. When human rights violations are presented primarily in material terms, acknowledging an indemnity claim becomes one way for a victim to be recognized. At the same time, indemnifications provoke difficult questions about how suffering and loss can be measured. Slyomovics, daughter of a survivor, maintains that we can use the legacies of German reparations to reconsider approaches to reparations in the future.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Anthropology’s “Culture, Power, Social Change” Group

306 ROYCE HALL • 12 PMTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

Book Launch

A DybbukA play reading by 10 actors from Theater DybbukTelling the story of a bride possessed by the dislocated soul of a tormented former suitor, the original play by S. Ansky is a landmark work in the history of Jewish and Yiddish theatre. Filled with poetic language, passionate examples of desire and probing investigations of faith, this adaptation by Tony Kushner is a moving look at the choices we make, the beliefs we hold and the complexities inherent in human nature.

Sponsored by theCalifornia Institute for Yiddish Culture and LanguageUCLA Department of Germanic Languages Cosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies For more information and to RSVP contact [email protected]

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2015 314 ROYCE HALL • 4PM

Jewish Life in Germany TodayThrough photos, text, audio clips and videos, the exhibition explores the varied experiences of Jews living in modern Germany, including stories of survivors, entertainers, educators, journalists, business people, teenagers, entrepreneurs, and rabbis who are reshaping Jewish life.

Sponsored byUCLA HillelCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies With the generous support ofE. Randol Schoenberg For more information and to RSVP visit www.uclahillel.org

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015 UCLA HILLEL • 7PM

David’s Divided HeartRabbi David Wolpe (Sinai Temple)Of all the figures in the Bible, David arguably stands out as the most perplexing and enigmatic. He was many things: a warrior who subdued Goliath and the Philistines; a king who united a nation; a poet who created beautiful, sensitive verse; a loyal servant of God who proposed the great Temple and founded the Messianic line; a schemer, deceiver, and adulterer. Rabbi Wolpe takes a fresh look at David in an attempt to find coherence in these contradictions. Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

306 ROYCE HALL • 12PMTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015


Anti-Nazi Parade in Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 22, 1938

UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections

Interpreting the Family of Abraham: Political Uses and AbusesCarol Bakhos (UCLA), Diane Winston (USC)The term “Abrahamic religions” has gained considerable currency in both scholarly and ecumenical circles as a way of referring to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Bakhos steps back from this convention to ask a frequently overlooked question: What, in fact, is Abrahamic about these three faiths? Exploring diverse stories and interpretations relating to the portrayal of Abraham, she reveals how he is venerated in these different scriptural traditions and how scriptural narratives have been pressed into service for nonreligious purposes.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Center for the Study of Religion

6275 BUNCHE HALL • 12PMTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Book Launch

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306 ROYCE HALLWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014


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When Jews Speak Arabic: Jewish Languages in Colonial MoroccoOren Kosansky (Lewis & Clark College)The Jews of Morocco have long used multiple languages, including Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Berber, and Arabic. Yet, the early twentieth century marked a significant language shift that captured the interest of the French colonial forces occupying Morocco from 1912—1956. Colonial linguists focused predominantly on Arabic as the language of a receding Moroccan Jewish past and French as the language of more promising future. This presentation considers how such studies represented Moroccan Jews of the time and how that research continues to inform the study of modern Judeo-Arabic today.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies

6275 BUNCHE HALL • 12PMTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies

Folksongs of Modernity: A Judeo-Spanish PerspectiveEdwin Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Folksongs of modernity: is it an oxymoron? If tradition is all that preceded modernity and folksongs a characteristic feature of traditional societies, then how are folksongs still among us and why? Seroussi suggests that modern touristic excursions, pilgrimages and edifying fieldtrips to ruins’ sites are experiences analogous to the performance and modern consumption of folksongs. The sonic excursion, substitutes the spatial-visual experience of the tour for the museum or ruins’ park. “Modern” folksongs from the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) repertoire will buttress these theoretical postulates.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies UCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music

314 ROYCE HALL • 4PMWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing FieldsWendy Lower (Claremont)This stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. Drawing on twenty years of research that included access to post-Soviet documents and interviews with German witnesses, Wendy Lower makes an incisive case for the massive complicity, and worse, of the 500,000 young German women she places, for the first time, directly in the killing fields of the expanding Reich.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Germanic LanguagesUCLA Department of Sociology

UCLA FACULTY CENTER • 4PMTHURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015

The 1939 Society Distinguished Lecture in Holocaust Studies

Capital, Culture, and the City: German Jews and the Other Weimar RepublicEmily J. Levine (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)Berlin may have been the capital of Weimar, Germany, but Hamburg, the port city 200 miles northwest, emerged in interwar Germany as a unique setting for intellectual life. Through the interconnected lives of three German-Jewish scholars Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky, Emily J. Levine tells the forgotten story of this commercial city’s transformation into a cultural center and the significant role that the city played for the German Jewish experience.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of History UCLA Department of Art HistoryUCLA Department of Germanic Languages

UCLA FACULTY CENTER • 4PMTHURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2015

The Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: A Conference in Honor of Abraham Joshua HeschelCurated by: Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA), Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth)

Keynote Speaker: Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary)Not only a theologian of extraordinary eloquence and poetic vision, Abraham Joshua Heschel was also a key figure in social justice movements in the United States in the 1960s and early 70s, including the civil rights movement, the movement against the war in Vietnam, and the transformations of the Catholic Church known as Vatican II. Heschel was close friends with Martin Luther King, Jr., and took part in the 1965 march on Selma. The conference will feature talks by key figures in contemporary Jewish thought and practice, as well as Christian scholars and public figures.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesNatalie Limonick Program on Jewish Civilization in Memory of Miriam Nisell RoseCosponsored by theUCLA Department of EnglishUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Center for the Study of Religion Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA

314 ROYCE HALLMAY 3-4, 2015

The Natalie Limonick Conference on Jewish Civilization

Deuteronomy as Scripture and Deuteronomy as TraditionBenjamin Sommer (JTS)There are several respects in which Deuteronomy straddles the line between what scholars of religion call “scripture” and what they term “tradition.” These include Deuteronomy’s pronounced interpretive character and its emphasis on its own orality. Sommer will discuss surprising similar views of modern biblical critics and of some traditional Jewish interpreters (especially in the Jewish mystical tradition) regarding these characteristics of Deuteronomy. He shows that Deuteronomy not only embodies a central Jewish concept of scripture but helps to construct it.


306 ROYCE HALL • 12PMMONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015


Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700–1950Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt), Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews. Designed for use in the classroom, these documents offer students an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major regional and world events of the modern era. They also provide a vivid exploration of the quotidian lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as well as the émigré centers which Sephardim settled throughout the twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Department of ItalianUCLA Center for European & Eurasian StudiesUCLA Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages & CulturesUCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese

UCLA FACULTY CENTER • 4PMTUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies / Book Launch

Music and Identity: The Musical Lives of Shlomo Carlebach and Mickey KatzMark Kligman (UCLA)Jewish music has always responded to its environment. Jews often negotiate utilizing music of the Jewish tradition and developing new sounds influenced by the music of their surroundings. This presentation of the music of legendary Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and comedic entertainer Mickey Katz will highlight both their European Jewish rooted traditions and recent developments in America.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish MusicUCLA Department of MusicologyUCLA Department of Ethnomusicology

UCLA FACULTY CENTER • 4PMTHURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015

The Annual Naftulin Lecture in Jewish Identity

Kol Nidre on Broadway: New Perspectives on the Success of the Jazz SingerJudith Thissen (Utrecht University)Based upon extensive research on the marketing and reception of The Jazz Singer, the first “talking picture” and the hit movie of 1927-28, Judith Thissen sheds a different light on its enormous success at the box-office. She positions the Warner Bros. production in the broader context of the commercialization of the High Holidays and the efforts of Broadway picture palaces to attract Jewish holiday-makers by integrating Jewish elements into their shows around Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.


306 ROYCE HALL • 12PMTUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

Ross Seminar in Yiddish Studies

Thinking Beyond the Canon: New Themes and Approaches in Jewish StudiesConvened by:

Jason Lustig (UCLA), Anat Mooreville (UCLA), Taly Ravid (UCLA)Modern Jewish studies emerged in 19th century Germany from the study of a distinct Jewish canon—the history and meaning of biblical and rabbinic literature—and Semitics, the study of the languages and literatures of the Ancient Near East. More recently, the research topics of Jewish studies scholars have broadened to the point that young scholars are asking if there is still a canon, a boundary line between what is and is not Jewish studies. Panels featuring graduate students from across the world will focus on newly discovered or understudied shapers of Jewish history and culture, and highlight those who approach Jewish studies research and teaching in innovative ways. Conference intended for faculty and graduate students by invitation only.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theJewish Federation of Greater Los AngelesUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Department of English

314 ROYCE HALLMARCH 8-9, 2015

Joy and Jerry Monkarsh Graduate Conference in Jewish Studies

Documenting Judeo-SpanishGraduate students, professors, scholars, and community activists from a variety of disciplines will present research geared to this year’s theme, “Documenting Judeo-Spanish.” Avner Perez, Founder and Director of the Ma’ale Adumim Institute for the Documentation of Judeo-Spanish and Sephardic Culture (Israel), and Marie-Christine Bornes Varol, Professor of Judeo-Spanish Studies at the National Institute for Oriental Languages & Civilizations (INALCO- France) will be the keynote speakers. For location and schedule please visit www.ucladino.com

Sponsored byucLADINOCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesUCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies

YOUNG RESEARCH LIBRARY MARCH 3-4, 2015

4th Annual ucLADINO Symposium

The Wherewithal: A Novel in VersePhilip Schultz (DePaul University)Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Schultz will speak about The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse (Harcourt, 2014). This is the astonishing story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.

Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Department of Germanic LanguagesUCLA Department of English

314 ROYCE HALL • 4PMTHURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015

The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies

The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish HistoryDavid N. Myers (UCLA)From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Freud’s Moses, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932-2009) earned recognition as perhaps the greatest Jewish historian of his day. The collected essays represent the range of Yerushalmi’s writing, from his research on early modern Spanish Jewry and the experience of crypto-Jews, to varied reflections on Jewish history and memory, and his enduring interest in the political history of the Jews.


306 ROYCE HALL • 12PMTUESDAY, MAY 19, 2015

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