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!
