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Haredi Women in the Arts in the Digital Age: Contradictions and Paradoxes of a 21st-Century Phenomenon – Jessica Roda

Free

Have you had a glimpse of the mesmerizing music videos of ultra-Orthodox women celebrities, Bracha Jaffe and Devorah Schwartz, captivating over half a million viewers on YouTube, or the myriad of films and Yiddish plays crafted by Hasidic girls in Montreal and New York? Probably not. This enduring lack of awareness persists because these spaces […]

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314 Royce Hall, UCLA

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Apr

06

No Place on Earth – Film Screening

Free

While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history. Sunday, April 6, 2025 • James […]

At 2:00 pm

James Bridges Theater (Melnitz Hall)

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Apr

03

Rethinking the Dilemma of Bombing Auschwitz: Support, Opposition, and Reservation – Zohar Segev

Free

The deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau began in May 1944. The extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, to which Hungarian Jews were deported, was located within the range of the Allies’ bomber aircraft. This led to demands being made to bomb the site. The fact that the extermination camp was not eventually bombed, along with the […]

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314 Royce Hall, UCLA

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Apr

02

Ladino In & Beyond the Home

Free

In its thirteenth consecutive year, the ucLADINO conference supports and celebrates the growing preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference centers around Ladino in and beyond the home, exploring language and culture in domestic spaces and in migration. How has Ladino taken shape within domestic […]

At 9:00 am

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