ucla cjs annual calendar 2012 - 2013
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Center for Jewish StudiesAnnual Calendar of Events 2012 - 2013
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM
JEWISH STUDIES OPEN HOUSEFor everyone interested in learning about the Center and meeting affiliated faculty.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
SEPHARDIC PHILANTHROPY AND THE ORIGINS OF A MODERN JEWISH NATIONMatthias B. LehMann (UC irvine)Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies
Sephardic Jews have been noticeably absent from one of the central chapters of modern Jewish history, the rise of Jewish nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is certainly the case that Zionism as a political movement and a secular, nationalist ideology was largely a product of the European, Ashkenazi experience. This paper argues, however, that in the 18th century, the traditional Sephardic elites of the Eastern Mediterranean established a new type of relationship linking the Jewish communities of the Diaspora to the Holy Land that was crucial for the subsequent success of modern Zionism.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic StudiesUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
Thursday, October 11, 2012 • 10383 Bunche Hall • 12 PM
FROM ENEMY TO BROTHER: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965John ConneLLy (UC BerkeLey)
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for European and Eurasian StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies For more info, please contact CEES at 310-825-4060 or [email protected]
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 • 348 Humanities • 3:30 PM
AFTER SECULARIZATION: Configurations of the Post-Secular in Goethe, Heine, and SpinozaWiLLi GoetsCheL (University of toronto)
Sponsored by theUCLA Department of Comparative LiteratureCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies For more information, please contact Michelle Anderson at 310-825-7650 or [email protected]
Sunday, October 21, 2012 • Fowler Museum • 12 PM
LIGHT AND SHADOWS: The Story of Iranian JewsExhibition Opening Celebration
Sponsored by theUCLA Fowler MuseumCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies For more information, please contact The Fowler at 310-825-4361
Monday, October 22, 2012 • 306 Royce Hall • 9 AM
AUTHORITATIVE TRADITIONS AND RITUAL POWER IN THE ANCIENT WORLDA Colloquium
The aim of this colloquium is to explore how authoritative texts, culture heroes, and authors were invoked ritually for cursing, protection, and divination in the ancient and late antique Near Eastern and Mediterranean world. The speakers represent a wide range of specializations in ancient ritual practice, including Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian materials.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for the Study of ReligionCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and CulturesUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Department of ClassicsFor more information, please contact CSR at 310-825-8472 or [email protected]
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 • 314 Royce Hall • 6:30 PM
HASIDIC COURTS: A Talk with Photographer Gil Cohen-MagenGiL Cohen-MaGen (PhotoGraPher)Gil Cohen-Magen’s photographs are part of the current exhibition on Hasidic life at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His recent book, Hasidic Courts, is a photographic exposé of moments, surprises and impressions from the lives of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox, mostly anti-Zionist communities such as the Satmar Hassidic sect. It provides a no-holds barred look at ceremonies and gatherings which have never before been photographed by outsiders.
Sponsored by theUCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies For more information, please contact Maura Kleeman Resnick at 310-825-9646 or [email protected]
Thursday, October 25, 2012 • UCLA Hillel • 7 PM
WHERE THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE:The Art of Fay Grajowerfay GraJoWer (artist)An Exhibit Opening Fay Grajower’s paintings provide insight about the second generation of Holocaust survivors. The artist uses her acquired memories of her mother’s and siblings’ experiences to work through issues of the past. The installation is made up of 140 vivid mixed-media works on wood (9.5” each). Arranged to form mosaic walls, the pieces suggest the scope of Jewish experience over the centuries, and up to the past 50 years.
Sponsored by theDortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA HillelCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesFor additional information, please contact Perla Karney at 310-208-3081 or [email protected]
Thursday, October 25, 2012 • UCLA Hillel • 7 PM
WHAT REMAINS: The Iranian Jewish Experience in LAsoraya nazarian • sheLLey Gazin • JessiCa shokrian krista nassi • tess haLavyA satellite show of the Fowler Museum exhibition Light and Shadows presenting Jewish Iranian
artists
Sponsored by theDortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA HillelCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesIranian Jewish Women’s OrganizationJanis and Avi RojanyFor additional information, please contact Perla Karney at 310-208-3081 or [email protected]
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 • 6275 Bunche Hall • 12 PM
KISHINEV’S POGROM IN MYTHOLOGY AND HISTORY: The Transmutation of the 1903 Riot in Hebrew Poetry, Jewish Politics, and the Protocols of the Elders in Zionsteven ziPPerstein (stanford)Faculty/Student Seminar Series Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead in an obscure border town, dominated headlines of much of the western press for weeks; it intruded upon US-Russian relations, and made an imprint on an astonishing array of institutions: the nascent Jewish army in Palestine, the NAACP and, most likely, the first version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. How was it that this particular incident – devastating, to be sure – came to define so much, and for so long?
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Center for European and Eurasian StudiesUCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Thursday, November 8, 2012 • UCLA Hillel • 4 PM
BULGARIA AND THE HOLOCAUST: The Fragility of GoodnessKeynote: steven saGe (Us hoLoCaUst MUseUM)
Film Screening: The OpTimisTsA Symposium, Exhibition, and Cultural Event This exhibition tells the story of how the Bulgarian Jews survived the Holocaust. In February 1943, Bulgaria and Germany signed an agreement to deport Bulgarian Jewry to camps in Poland. First Bulgarian police detained over 11,000 Jews of Thrace and Macedonia, then under Bulgarian occupation, and sent them to death camps. Then they proceeded to round up 9,000 Jews within Bulgaria itself. An intense public reaction ensued. Significant and public protest involving key political leaders and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church moved King Boris III to cancel the deportation on the very day of its planned execution. While expelled from their homes and persecuted, Bulgaria’s 48,000 Jews nonetheless escaped total destruction with the help of civic society.The exhibit will run from Sept. 10 to Nov. 30 at UCLA Hillel.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies The “1939” Club Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA HillelCosponsored by theBulgarian Jewish Heritage Alliance of AmericaUCLA Center for European and Eurasian StudiesUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 • UCLA Faculty Center • 4 PM
JEWISH STUDIES IN CHINA: The New Frontier Jewish Studies is a small but growing field in China. The Glazer Institute of Jewish Studies at Nanjing University, founded in 1992 and renamed in 2007 for Los Angeles philanthropists Diane and Guilford Glazer, offers regular courses on Judaism, Jewish history and culture, and Holocaust studies. What kinds of issues may Chinese scholars in Judaic Studies encounter in a land which is neither Christian nor Muslim, and where Judaism and the animus against it are not deep-seated? The talk will address the current situation and future prospects of Jewish studies in China.
LihonG sonG (nanJinG University)Faculty/Student Seminar Series
Thursday, November 15, 2012 • 314 Royce Hall • 12 PM
CHINESE AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KAIFENG: Towards a Fusion of Horizons The Jewish past in Kaifeng, China stretches back more than a thousand years. Most scholars agree that a Jewish community existed in Kaifeng, once an important stop on the Silk Road, since the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127). Some experts date the arrival of Jews to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) or even earlier. Since the discovery of the community by the Jesuits in the 17th century, it has triggered legions of scholarly activity. Working on the same historical evidence, however, Chinese and western scholars usually drew drastically different conclusions. Reflections on the differences will not only lay bare the orientations of Jewish studies in China, but also shed light on the worlds in which we live.
LihonG sonG (nanJinG University)Faculty/Student Seminar Series
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryUCLA Confucius InstituteUCLA Department of Asian Languages & CulturesUCLA East Asian LibraryUCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 • 314 Royce Hall • 12 PM
THE COLOR OF MARRIAGE: Jews, Race, and Intermarriage in AmericaJennifer GLaser (U of CinCinnati)Faculty/Student Seminar Series This paper looks particularly at Hettie Jones’ memoir of her marriage to the poet LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka, How I Became Hettie Jones (1990), Lore Segal’s novel Her First American (1985), and Gary Shteyngart’s recent Super Sad True Love Story (2010) to show the conjoined histories of gender and race in Jewish American culture during the period.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Center for the Study of Religion UCLA Department of English
Thursday, November 29, 2012 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
FROM THE SHAHS TO LOS ANGELES: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish WomensaBa sooMekh (LoyoLa MaryMoUnt University)Faculty/Student Seminar Series Prof. Saba Soomekh will present an ethnographic portrait of life for three generations of Iranian Jewish women who lived in Iran and now live in America, exploring the political and social changes that have affected these women in regards to their rituals, religious observances, sexuality and their self-concept as Iranian Jewish women in Iran and now in Los Angeles.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and CulturesUCLA Department of Sociology
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 • Young Research Library • 4 PM
MAPPING JEWISH LAWonder what Jewish LA was like more than a century ago? Go back in time with Dr. Karen Wilson, head curator for Mapping Jewish LA, the Center’s five-year initiative to create a multimedia digital archive. She will share the first exhibits for this intriguing project.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA LibraryWith Support from theSady and Ludwig Kahn Endowment in German Jewish Studies
Thursday, December 6, 2012 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM
THE JEWISH ORIGINS OF CULTURAL PLURALISMdanieL Green (neWBerry LiBrary, ChiCaGo)Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity
The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism (Indiana UP, 2011) traces the emergence of the idea of cultural pluralism to a group of Jewish college students and public intellectuals, including the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. At Harvard, they founded an influential student organization known as the Menorah Association in 1906 and later the Menorah Journal, which became a leading voice of Jewish public opinion in the 1920s. In response to the idea that the American melting pot would erase all cultural differences, the Menorah Association advocated a pluralist America that would accommodate a thriving Jewish culture while bringing Jewishness into mainstream American life.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Library UCLA Department of History
Thursday, January 17, 2013 • UCLA Hillel • 4 PM
FORBIDDEN ART: A Symposium and Exhibition on Camp Art from the Collections of the Auschwitz MemorialThis exhibition from the Auschwitz Memorial features twenty works of art made illegally and under the threat of death by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. At once a unique historical document and testament to the fight for one’s own humanity, the art is also a record of each prisoner-artist’s inner life. The photographs are accompanied by historical commentary and excerpts from archival accounts, and include drawings depicting the plight of inmates, scenes from camp life and portraits. They also include excerpts from fairy tales that inmates wrote for their children left at home, and in some cases, information about the artists themselves.Exhibit will run from December - January at UCLA Hillel
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesThe “1939” ClubDortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA HillelCosponsored by theConsulate General of the Federal Republic of Poland German Consulate General in Los Angeles UCLA Department of Germanic Languages UCLA Department of HistoryExhibition was made possible through the partnership of The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Polish Mission
Thursday, January 24, 2013 • 314 Royce Hall • 12 PM
BIRTHRIGHT VEGAS: Wandering the Desert in Search of JewishnessdanieL itzkovitz (stonehiLL CoLLeGe)Faculty/Student Seminar Series
Since World War II there has been a growing sense among many that anti-Semitism would not destroy the Jews after all; rather, it would be through assimilation, intermarriage and general indifference. By the 1990s, when the Jewish population survey noted an alarming drop in the number of American Jews, a full-scale panic set in among those concerned with the future of the Jews. Birthright Vegas will look at one moment in this panic and its aftermath: a moment in which the Jewish relation to Israel, to religion, and to Las Vegas is wildly in flux.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by the UCLA Department of History
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 • UCLA Faculty Center • 4 PM
WHY THIS NEW FASCINATION? Islam in the Modern Jewish ImaginationsUsannah hesCheL (dartMoUth CoLLeGe)Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies
Why have so many Jewish scholars been drawn to the study of Islam? From the 1830s to the 1930s, Jewish scholars came to dominate the field of Islamic Studies in Europe, particularly in Germany, Hungary, and France, concentrating primarily on the Qur’an and the life of Muhammad, but also painting a broad canvas describing the nature of Islam as a religion. They presented Islam as derived from Judaism, and under whose aegis, especially in medieval Muslim Spain, Jews enjoyed not only religious tolerance, but cultural and economic flourishing. This talk will discuss the contributions of these Jewish scholars to the nascent field of Islamic Studies; the very different kind of “Orientalism” their work promoted; and what their studies of Islam contributed to modern Jewish self-understanding.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and CulturesUCLA Department of History
Thursday, January 31, 2013 • 365 Humanities • 12 PM
WOMEN IN THE BIBLE: Now That We Are Out of the Garden, Where Do We Go?taMMi J. sChneider (CLareMont GradUate University)Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Monday, February 4, 2013 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
VIENNA’S JEWISH GEOGRAPHY: Beyond the LeopoldstadtLisa siLverMan (University of WisConsin-MiLWaUkee)Inaugural Seminar on Vienna in Los Angeles
“Jewish space” immediately conjures up images of urban sites bearing visible evidence of Jews or Jewish culture, such as Vienna’s traditionally Jewish Leopoldstadt district. But other spaces can also be implicitly perceived as Jewish, for a variety of reasons. Through historical analysis of Vienna’s built environment and its depiction in the testimony of Austrian Jews forced to leave after 1938, this talk will explore how a complex coding of Jewish difference translated onto space affected how all Vienna’s residents navigated – and imagined – their city.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesCosponsored by the UCLA Department of Germanic LanguagesUCLA Department of History
CJS Events are free and open to the public. ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To RSVP: call (310) 267-5327 or email [email protected] maps and parking information please visit www.transportation.ucla.edu. Please note that events are subject to change without notice.
For an up-to-date schedule, please visit www.cjs.ucla.edu
From the Shahs to Los Angeles
SABA SOOMEKH
THREE GENERATIONS OF IRANIAN JEWISH WOMEN
BETWEEN RELIGION AND CULTURE
Center for Jewish Studies
Monday, February 11, 2013 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
CONVERSION AND CONVERGENCE: Transcontinental Latina/o Sephardic/Muslim NarrativesdaLia kandiyoti (CoLLeGe of staten isLand)Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies
This comparative talk will examine tropes and themes in cultural discourses and fictions about the legacies of conversion from the Americas to Europe and Turkey. In the contemporary imagination, conversion and “returns” are characterized by both sharply differentiated and convergent identities in highly imbricated Catholic, Sephardic, and Muslim cultural worlds. At the center of these representations are changing contemporary perceptions of Sephardic cultures and histories as well as global ideas about religion and ethnicity.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic StudiesUCLA Department of History
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 • 6275 Bunche Hall • 4 PM
RE-VISITING “THE RINGWORM AFFAIR”:X-Rays and the Jewish Question in Early IsraelMiChaeL BerkoWitz (University CoLLeGe London)Prof. Berkowitz will address the “Ringworm Affair” in modern Israel (an effort by the State of Israel in the 1950s to combat the scourge of ringworm especially among children who arrived in the massive migration of Jews from North Africa and the Middle East). When it was realized later that many of these children died from (apparently) excessive exposure to radiation, their treatment became a scandal and the subject of an award-wining documentary film, The Ringworm Children.
Sponsored by theUCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish StudiesUCLA Department of HistoryFor more info, please contact Maura Resnick at 310-825-9646 or [email protected]
Thursday, February 21, 2013 • 314 Royce Hall • 12 PM
THINK YIDDISH, DRESS BRITISH: Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the Ivy League Style at Yale in the 1950sdan horoWitz (aUthor)Faculty/Student Seminar Series
This talk will illuminate major changes in the relationships between social class, sartorial style, and entrepreneurship, as well as the relationships between Jews and others in the opening up of American society.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theUCLA Department of History
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
TITLE TBAJoeL Baden (yaLe)Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
DELEUZE, SPINOZA, AND SCHOLASTIC THOUGHTeLeanor kaUfMan (UCLa)Faculty/Student Seminar Series
The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a contemporary thinker engaged with Scholastic thought, above all with Duns Scotus’s notion of univocity, which Deleuze famously links to Spinoza. By contrast, Prof. Kaufman’s Deleuze, the Dark Precursor suggests that Deleuze should be thought more directly alongside Aquinas, his avowed enemy, and Aquinas’s notion of analogy. This presentation will link Deleuze’s thought not only to Christian philosophy but also to a strain of “apostate” Jewish thought arguably represented by Spinoza.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theUCLA Center for the Study of Religion UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
TITLE TBAJ. edWard WriGht (University of arizona)Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Thursday, March 7, 2013 • 314 Royce Hall • 7:30 PM
FUTURITY: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and the Quest for the PastaMir esheL (stanford)The Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. Prof. Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century’s catastrophes at the expense of literature’s prospective vision. Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues that by grappling with watershed events of modernity, these works display a future-centric engagement with the past that opens up the present to new political, cultural, and ethical possibilities—what he calls futurity.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies With the Generous Support ofMilt & Sheila Hyman
Monday-Tuesday, March 18-19, 2013 • 314 Royce Hall
JACOB AND SUSAN TAUBES AND THEIR CIRCLESAn International Conference Organized by
kenneth reinhard (UCLa)This conference looks at the lives and brilliant careers of Jacob and Susan Taubes. They were strikingly original, and often controversial Jewish intellectuals in New York after World War II, and key figures in some of the most important philosophical, political, theological, and artistic discussions of their times.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies UCLA Program in Experimental Critical TheoryZentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung (Berlin)
Thursday, April 4, 2013 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM
SIMONE WEIL’S ANTI-SEMITISMMary Gordon (Barnard CoLLeGe)The life, character, behavior, and ideas of Simone Weil shed light on the painful contradictions lived out by a kind of Jewish intellectual. Ordinary, or garden variety self hatred was sometimes masked by a assertions of cultural, rather than ethnic, tribal, religious self identification. Simone Weil, whose life was devoted to witnessing oppression and injustice, and was almost silent about the persecution of Jews by Nazis — chose to instead focus on the fate of France at the hands of the Germans. In a woman of such high intellectual and ethical standards, such blindnesses are shocking and deeply distressing. Her supporters want to pretend the problem wasn’t there; her detractors want to deny her brilliant contributions to the intellectual history of the 20th century.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theUCLA Center for the Study of Religion
(Picture: Emma Dodge Hanson)
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 • 6275 Bunche Hall • 12 PM
NEW BABYLONIANS: The Farhud and Iraqi Jewryorit Bashkin (University of ChiCaGo)Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies
The talk will explore the Farhud, a series of urban riots against Iraqi Jews during which nearly 180 Jews were killed (June 1-2, 1941). The Farhud brought to the fore both the worst and the noblest aspects of Jewish-Iraqi relations. Essentially the first pogrom in a modern Arab state, it was a direct result of rampant nationalism, the violence of which reached epidemic proportions. At this time Iraqi Jews were attacked by their fellow citizens. The Farhud was also a moment when Muslim neighbors risked their lives in order to protect their Jewish friends, neighbors, and business partners and when friendship, loyalty, and religious and tribal notions concerning protection of the peoples of the book overcame nationalist xenophobia.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic StudiesUCLA Department of History
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 • 6275 Bunche Hall • 4 PM
CHINESE ATTITUDES TOWARDS JEWS AND JUDAISMXU Xin (nanJinG University)An analysis of Chinese knowledge and attitudes toward the Jews in the 20th century. Many Chinese people are fascinated by the Jews and how they survived, were revived, and have achieved so much in modern times despite the fact that they have been persecuted throughout the ages. The image of the Jews in the Chinese mind serves as an “other”, which remains a mirror for the Chinese to judge or construct themselves and a model for them to learn about the path to modernization without losing their traditions.
Sponsored by theUCLA Department of HistoryCosponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, April 25, 2013 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM
LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: The Ethnographic Sensibility in Yiddish LiteraturesaMUeL sPinner (UCLa)Ross Seminar in Yiddish Studies
Yiddish literature, largely written by Jews and for Jews, nevertheless contains an ethnographic element, seemingly more appropriate for the description of unfamiliar peoples and cultures. This talk describes the influence of ethnography on the formation and expression of European Jewish identity in the first half of the twentieth century, and analyzes the ways in which the idiom of describing the foreign came to be used in Yiddish to describe the familiar.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies UCLA Mickey Ross Program in Yiddish StudiesCosponsored by theUCLA Department of History
Sunday, May 19, 2013 • Autry National Center • Time TBA
JEWS IN THE LOS ANGELES MOSAICExhibition Opening
Committed to presenting the evolving story of the American West as an interwoven tapestry of cultures and peoples, the Autry will break new ground in exploring the diversity of Los Angeles and the second-largest Jewish community in North America. Through approximately 150 artifacts, countless images, and original media, visitors will learn how the place and myth called Los Angeles has shaped Jewish identities, and will have an opportunity to reflect on their own notions of self, community, and society in the twenty-first century.
Sponsored by theAutry National CenterUCLA Center for Jewish Studies The Historical Society of Southern California
Thursday, May 23, 2013 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM
THE SHOAH EXPERIENCE FROM THE ANDREA DEVOTO ORAL ARCHIVEGiovanni Contini BonaCossi (sChoLar)Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by theUCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish StudiesUCLA Department of Italian
Thursday, May 30, 2013 • UCLA Faculty Center • 4 PM
FROM THE CAMP TO THE CHAIR: The Holocaust and PsychiatryBen shePhard (oXford)The “1939” Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies
It has taken psychiatry many decades to come to terms with the Holocaust. On the one hand, doctors have tried to help survivors to rebuild their lives; on the other, they have been profoundly influenced by the Holocaust in formulating modern concepts of trauma. This lecture will weigh the effectiveness of the medical response and assess the legacy of the Holocaust in modern psychiatry.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies The “1939” ClubCosponsored by theUCLA Department of History
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 • Venue TBA • 4 PM
THE GINZBURG GEOGRAPHY PROJECTJeWLia eisenBerG & CharMinG hostess (an enseMBLe)The Natalie Limonick Program on Jewish Civilization A Performance
This performance features music from The Ginzburg Geography, an upcoming installation exploring the lives of Italian anti-fascist intellectuals Natalia and Leone Ginzburg through sound and cartography. The texts are drawn from the Ginzburgs’ writings, the music draws from Italian regional traditions, Italian Jewish liturgy, and anti-fascist song from work chants to resistance anthems. Performance by Charming Hostess, an ensemble working at the intersection of voice, text, and diaspora consciousness.
Sponsored by theUCLA Center for Jewish Studies Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music at UCLAFunding Provided by theNatalie Limonick Fund in Memory of Miriam Nisell Rose
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ANNUAL CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2012 - 2013