In this workshop, we discuss the state of African research and archival collecting on the subject of the Jews of West and Sub-Saharan Africa and their many complex cultural, spiritual, and economic engagements. We also reflect on the emerging interest among many African scholars in the history of Nazi and Vichy race laws, forced labor,...
Alyssa Quint (Yeshiva University) with Amelia Glaser (UCSD) and Todd Presner (UCLA) Video available now: https://youtu.be/kI0bujeKu08 The institution of the modern Yiddish theater coalesced in a short period (from roughly 1876 to 1883) under the stewardship of a Russian-Jewish intellectual named Avrom Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater. In composing and producing...
Video available now: https://youtu.be/KdrTYx04AvQ David S. Koffman (York University) and Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University) in conversation with Caroline Luce (UCLA) This webinar brings together David S. Koffman (York University), author of The Jews’ Indian, and Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University), author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism, in dynamic conversation with host Caroline Luce (UCLA) about...
Video now available: https://youtu.be/wInltZ7snVQ Opening Remarks: Noam Pianko (President of the AJS) & Shmuel Feiner (Chair of the Historical Society of Israel) Speakers: Maud Mandel (Williams College), Devin E. Naar (University of Washington), Iris Idelson-Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), and Anita Shapira (Tel Aviv University) Moderator: David N. Myers (UCLA) This event brings together...
https://youtu.be/eKQKJSo_ehY Sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Bible and the Ancient World Series Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter The Demise of the Warlord: A New Interpretation of David and Bathsheba in Light of an Amorite and Akkadian Topos Daniel Bodi (La Sorbonne -University of Paris) with William Schniedewind (UCLA)
https://youtu.be/PlnFpaxo_yU Sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Bible and the Ancient World Series Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter/ Erin Darby (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) with Aaron Burke (UCLA) A Judean, an Edomite, and a Negevite Walk into a Shrine: The Archaeology of Religion in Southern Israel In this session,...
https://youtu.be/WsuVEVS0jwk Sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Bible and the Ancient World Series Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter Annette Yoshiko Reed (NYU) with Catherine Bonesho (UCLA) This lecture revisits the beginnings of Jewish demonology by looking to Aramaic Enoch literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Jewish reception of...
https://youtu.be/Sbpg6Lv55m0 Sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies The 1939 Society Book Talk in Holocaust Studies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter Laura Levitt (Temple University) with Aliza Luft (UCLA) The Objects That Remain is equal parts personal memoir and fascinating examination of the ways in which the material remains of...
https://youtu.be/nV17t5nBqCE Sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Book Talk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter Lia Brozgal (UCLA) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961 is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre...
https://youtu.be/rcENrymSLzk Sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Book Talk Mir Yarfitz (Wake Forest) with Ellen DuBois (UCLA) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina was published in 2019 in the Rutgers University Press Jewish Cultures of the World series. The book...
https://youtu.be/QB1aEjO1z9U https://youtu.be/TlJwFxsLxgI Postponed in 2020 due to the closure of the UCLA campus, the annual UCLadino symposium was held on April 7-8. The theme of “Ottoman Legacies, Emigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads” laid emphasis on heritage, culture, and communication related to Sephardic Jews. The music-filled program – all organized by graduate students – featured panels...
https://youtu.be/ueVqIwy3EnQ Alma Rachel Heckman (UC Santa Cruz) with Chris Silver (McGill University) and Aomar Boum (UCLA) The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies The Sultan’s Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco’s national liberation project and examines...
https://youtu.be/sTXvUe_sNv0 Eli Bromberg (Fordham University) with Benjamin Ratskoff (UCLA) Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness and Incest in American Popular Culture Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS/ Website: https://www.levecenter.ucla.edu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecenter Eli Bromberg will discuss his book, Unsettling, which analyzes how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest in the 1990s, illustrating how...
New Approaches to Boyle Heights, a Conversation Live on Zoom: June 9, 2021 - 12PM PST RSVP at http://bit.ly/BoyleHeightsJune2021 Join Caroline Luce (UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies), curator of “Jewish Histories in Multiethnic Boyle Heights,” and George J. Sánchez (USC Dept. of American Studies and Ethnicity and History), author of Boyle Heights: How a...
The Leve Center is delighted to kick off our 2021-2022 "Physically Distant, Intellectually Engaged" virtual event series with a conversation between Saul Noam Zaritt (Harvard) and Yasemin Yildiz (UCLA), part of the Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies. What does it mean to write “Jewish” literature for the world? Saul Noam Zaritt’s Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe...
https://youtu.be/3CObIAEB2h4 "The Problems of Genocide Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression" available now - Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1107503124/... The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies A. Dirk Moses (UNC at Chapel Hill) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law,...
https://youtu.be/13UbpkI4yTg Discussants: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) & Jessica Marglin (USC) Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh’s Jewish Universalism More info: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2... How did it come to be that a nineteenth-century stern-looking Italian rabbi of Moroccan descent who never left his hometown of Livorno, and advocated for Jewish universalism and unity across religion, managed...
https://youtu.be/nd4JYCO0sEE UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies Scholars writing about the Iberian citizenship laws have argued that we need to investigate how applying for citizenship has often prompted Sephardi descendants to rethink their ancestry, identity, and attachments. But what about those who chose not to apply? How...
https://youtu.be/yiwZOQqHEYc UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Arnold Band Distinguished Program in Jewish Studies Brett Ashley Kaplan (University of Illinois) Leah Garrett (Hunter College, CUNY) Benjamin Schreier (Penn State University) Maeera Y. Schreiber (University of Utah) Moderator: Dean Franco (Wake Forest University) Introduction: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) This program brings together leading scholars...
https://youtu.be/-ODXuuUOOiM Can These Bones Live?: The Politics of Death in the Hebrew Bible Kerry Sonia (Colby College) Moderator: Aaron Burke (UCLA) The Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies https://levecenter.ucla.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS https://www.instagram.com/uclalevecen... Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures...