Jewish seniors share L.A. memories
In a floral-print jacket and bright-red lipstick, Dorothy Scott smiled as she thumbed through a plastic binder of photographs, letters and newspaper clippings. Among her modeling and acting headshots is one photo showing her flanked by none other than Frank Sinatra, who she opened for while singing on a USO tour. One black-and-white photo showed […]
With music, fine food, events celebrate Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews
The phrase “Kan ya ma kan” is usually translated as “Once upon a time” in Arabic literature, and is the phrase that begins many stories. The founders of Clockshop, a Los Angeles nonprofit arts organization, adopted this phrase to launch a series of events highlighting the near-forgotten stories of the Sephardic- and Mizrahi-Jewish communities. Many […]
Israel asks: Where do we go from here?
UCLA International Institute, November 12, 2015 – On July 14, 2015, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, which focuses on reducing the capabilities of the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of U.N. economic sanctions. While lauded as […]
Michael Casper Granted Prestigious Fellowship at The Center for Jewish History in New York City
PRESS RELEASE Michael Casper awarded the Lillian Goldman Fellowship for the 2015 – 2016 academic year NEW YORK – July 14, 2015 – Michael Casper, a doctoral candidate in History at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named a 2015 – 2016 Lillian Goldman Fellow at the Center for Jewish History – the home […]
In Memoriam: Dr. Janet Hadda
Moving to UCLA in 1973 to start its Yiddish Program, she later became the first tenured professor of Yiddish in the US, publishing academic and popular articles, in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, and German. She initially developed a specialty in American Yiddish poetry, particularly the works of Yankev Glatshteyn, the subject of her first book […]
An open letter to President Obama: This is a moral emergency
Dear President Barack Obama, I appreciate your comments on the “heartache and the sadness and the anger” that many Americans are feeling after the shooting of nine African-American congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. You pointed out that “this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” and you argued, […]
Class with Holocaust Survivors Inspires UCLA Student Film Project
Who knew that a freshman seminar could be life changing? When Andrew Rosenstein enrolled in Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature Professor Todd Presner’s seminar,Between Memory & History: Interviewing Holocaust Survivors in the Digital Age, in Winter 2012, he couldn’t imagine how the opportunity of meeting with a survivor over the course of the quarter would […]
Renowned UCLA Historian awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History
David N. Myers, professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair in the UCLA College’s Department of History, has been awarded the inaugural Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, which will provide the renowned historian funds for research, graduate student support, and annual public seminars and symposia. READ MORE (UCLA Newsroom)
