This talk by Professor Daniella Talmon-Heller (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) will highlight commonalities and differences between Jewish and Muslim thinking about the aural, graphic, and material forms of the Torah and Qurʾan. Jews and Muslims have both been preoccupied with transcribing and reading the authentic text as accurately as possible while securing its sanctity. They have...
https://youtu.be/ZV8tExZz0LU UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies https://levecenter.ucla.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecen... The Annual Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies Jason Lustig (The University of Texas at Austin) with David N. Myers (UCLA) A Time to Gather available now: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ... How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in...
Zip Code Memory Project Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 236 Royce Hall - 2PM* *In person event open to UCLA Students, Faculty, and Staff RSVP: levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Seminar The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies The Zip Code Memory Project invites people to re-imagine Zip Codes,...
Remembering Possibility: Memory and Photography in Liquid Time* Thursday, March 10, 2022 - 314 Royce Hall - 4PM *In person event open to the public RSVP: levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies This talk will consider how the vulnerable times of the...
This conference (online and onsite) brings together scholars to consider different manuscript communities in Europe, their textual and iconographic traditions, and more globally, an exploration of communities that produced “families” of Hebrew manuscripts and enabled transmissions across languages and societies. Motivation to organize this conference stems from The J. Paul Getty Museum’s recent acquisition of...
Reimagining Sephardic Studies: Provocations from Outside the Fold A Columbia-UCLA Virtual Symposium Graduate Student Organized Webinar To register, please visit: https://bit.ly/Sephardic2022 Monday, May 9, 2022 Relational Approaches to History in Ottoman Studies 9:00 AM PST // 12:00 PM EST Panel Description: This panel examines new methodological approaches within Ottoman Studies that seek to expand how...
https://youtu.be/GNuayjShEZc An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland available now: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.p... Kenneth Moss (University of Chicago) with David N. Myers (UCLA) Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies What did the future hold for interwar Europe's largest Jewish community, the font of global Jewish hopes? When intrepid analysts asked these questions on...
https://youtu.be/lEkdZ32kNfs Cosponsored by Hillel at UCLA: https://www.uclahillel.org/ Chaim Seidler-Feller (Shalom Hartman Institute of North America) A virtual tour of the Seidler-Feller collection of objects of Jewish material culture from Alsace and Iran, from India and Italy and from the US and Israel. Items include an 18th Century embroidered Italian tallit, a Yemenite wedding headdress, ketubot...
Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies RSVP: https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/between-city-and-shtetl-a-comparative-look-at-contemporary-hasidic-life/ Join us for "Between City and Shtetl: A Comparative Look at Contemporary Hasidic Life," an upcoming joint book talk featuring current and former Leve affiliates. This talk brings together David N. Myers (UCLA) and Nomi M. Stolzenberg...
RSVP: https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/the-monster-at-the-heart-of-our-galaxy-from-the-possibility-to-the-certainty-of-a-supermassive-black-hole/ Andrea Ghez (UCLA) 2021-22 Alan D. Leve Award Lecture Learn about new developments in the study of supermassive black holes. Through the capture and analysis of twenty years of high-resolution imaging, the UCLA Galactic Center Group has moved the case for a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy from a...
Thursday, October 20, 2022 • 306 Royce • 2 PM Christopher Silver (McGill University) with Aomar Boum (UCLA) Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not...
Sunday, October 23, 2022 • CNSI • 4 PM Reception/5pm Lecture Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University) with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) A Sarajevo Story: Jews, Muslims, and the Complexities of Rescue in a formerly Ottoman town Inaugural Al Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies This talk explores the entangled narratives of racial politics and understandings of rescue...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 • 314 Royce • 4 PM Jessica Marglin (USC) & Matthias Lehmann (UC Irvine), with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) Where Do Jews Belong? Two Perspectives from the Jewish Nineteenth Century Sady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies The Leve Center will host a double book talk featuring the...
Event Postponed: New Date and Time TBA UAW Academic workers representing student employees, academic and student researchers, and postdocs have voted to authorize a strike during the week of 11/14-11/18, calling for increased wages, better working conditions and affordable housing. In light of these efforts, the Leve Center is postponing our events for the coming week. Please stay tuned...
https://youtu.be/Awm32jnHjfw We remain horrified by the deeds of those who perpetrated the Holocaust but perhaps more mystified than ever. The long-held consensus among historians that the perpetrators were “ordinary men” does not satisfy, and not just because we now know more about the role of female auxiliaries. We are not sure what “ordinary” demarcates: Not...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 • 314 Royce • 2 PM Aomar Boum (UCLA) Moderator: Todd Presner (UCLA) Undesirables A Holocaust Journey to North Africa Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to...
Tuesday, January 31, 2022 • 314 Royce • 4 PM Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) & Aomar Boum (UCLA) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950 The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity...
Thursday, February 2, 2023 • Zoom Live • 9 AM PST New Approaches to Italian Fascism and Jewish Histories Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies To mark the 100th anniversary of the Fascist seizure of power, an event known as The March on Rome and which produced the first Fascist government and initiated the 23-year...
Jessie Sampter (1883-1938) embraced Zionism as an adult and moved to Palestine in 1919. Yet Sampter’s own life and body hardly matched typical Zionist ideals: while Zionism celebrated the strong and healthy body, Sampter spoke of herself as “crippled” from childhood polio and plagued by weakness and sickness her whole life; while Zionism applauded reproductive...
https://youtu.be/fFE5cgkJqwk In this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa. In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler’s genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration...