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SUMMARY:From Debdou’s Little Seville to America’s Guess: Rural Artisans and Global Designers - Aomar Boum
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Prof. Boum will develop the concept of aesthetic funds of knowledge to name the embodied\, socially transmitted\, and commercially usable repertoires through which Sephardic Moroccan Jews built aesthetic and sartorial competence across Debdou\, France\, and the Americas. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic and archival research in the Moroccan Jewish community in Los Angeles and building on Luis Moll’s account of the relation among household\, community\, and education\, he examines how the Marcianos and other LA- and Montreal-based Moroccan Jews\, whose family history links rural Moroccan Jewish life to transnational fashion commerce\, negotiated Sephardic cultural identity and economic participation through work with dress\, shoes\, and bags. Family networks\, business partnerships\, and community organizations enabled Marciano scribes\, weavers\, cobblers\, artisans\, and entrepreneurs to convert clothing knowledge and aesthetic judgment into reputational capital\, niche positioning\, and durable commercial ties. Their careers show how Sephardic distinction in the garment and fashion sectors grew from inherited craft knowledge\, kin-based trust\, and the practical calibration of taste across Mediterranean and Atlantic commercial worlds. \nWednesday\, November 4\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nFrom Debdou’s Little Seville to America’s Guess: Rural Artisans and Global Designers\nAomar Boum (UCLA)\nMaurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies \nCosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/from-debdous-little-seville-to-americas-guess-rural-artisans-and-global-designers-aomar-boum/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race\, Labor\, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles - Caroline Luce
DESCRIPTION:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine examines how a cohort of young Jewish radicals from Eastern Europe helped reshape multiracial left-wing activism in Southern California. It traces their migration from the Russian Empire to Los Angeles and their involvement in labor and left-wing movements. Focusing especially on Boyle Heights\, the book explores how the neighborhood’s diverse communities shaped Yiddish public culture and Jewish political organizing. It highlights the relationships\, collaborations\, and tensions that emerged as Jewish radicals built multiracial coalitions with Mexican\, Asian\, and African American neighbors. Drawing on previously untranslated Yiddish sources\, the book challenges traditional Jewish immigration narratives centered on the Northeast and places Jewish workers in the American West at the center of Jewish and American history. Ultimately\, it demonstrates how Eastern European Jewish radicals and trade unionists contributed to Los Angeles through innovative organizing and helped shape the city’s evolving racial and political landscape. \nCaroline Luce is Project Director with the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and formerly Chief Curator of Mapping Jewish Los Angeles\, a project of the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \nTuesday\, November 10\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nYiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish Radicalism\, Labor\, and Culture in Los Angeles \nCaroline Luce (UCLA)\nModerator: Todd Presner (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \nCosponsored by The\nUCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment\nUCLA Department of History \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/yiddish-in-the-land-of-sunshine-race-labor-and-jewish-radicalism-in-los-angeles-caroline-luce/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T140000
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SUMMARY:Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism - Elizabeth E. Imber
DESCRIPTION:Following the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine\, Jews across the British Empire—from Jerusalem to Johannesburg\, and London to Calcutta—found themselves at the heart of global Jewish political discourse. As these intellectuals\, politicians\, activists\, and communal elites navigated shifting political landscapes\, some envisioned Palestine as a British dominion\, leveraging imperial power for Jewish state-building\, while others fostered ties with anticolonial movements\, contemplating independent futures. This talk\, based on Imber’s new book Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, will explore this intricate interplay between British imperialism\, Zionism\, and anticolonial movements from the 1917 British conquest of Palestine to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. In doing so\, it will show how the British Empire’s fate became central to Zionist and broader Jewish political thought during a time marked by profound urgency and exigency. \nElizabeth Imber is Associate Professor of History and the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History at Clark University. Her work examines the cultural and political dimensions and intersections of Jewish history and European imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book\, Uncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism (Stanford University Press\, 2025)\, received the 2025 National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material and the 2025 Salo Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research\, and was co-winner of the 2026 Shapiro Award from the Association for Israel Studies. \nThursday\, November 19\, 2025 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM  \nUncertain Empire: Jews\, Nationalism\, and the Fate of British Imperialism\nElizabeth E. Imber (Clark University)\nModerator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)\nViterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies \nCosponsored by the UCLA Department of History \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/uncertain-empire-jews-nationalism-and-the-fate-of-british-imperialism-elizabeth-e-imber/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies
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SUMMARY:The Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine - Dov Waxman
DESCRIPTION:Since the October 7\, 2023\, attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza\, difficult questions about when criticism of Israel or support for Palestine becomes antisemitic have moved to the center of public life and political debate. Amid growing antisemitism and fierce disagreement over what is or isn’t antisemitic\, what is needed now more than ever is a clearer and more sophisticated understanding of antisemitism and how it relates to Israel-Palestine. In The Question of Antisemitism\, Dov Waxman provides precisely that\, presenting an authoritative guide to today’s contentious debates about antisemitism\, anti-Zionism\, and Israel-Palestine. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and former director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Before joining UCLA\, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies\, a Professor of Political Science\, and the director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York\, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College\, and a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University\, the Hebrew University\, Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing focus on the Israel-Palestine issue\, contemporary antisemitism\, Jewish politics\, Israeli politics\, Israel-Diaspora relations\, U.S.-Israel relations\, and U.S.-Middle East relations. He is the author four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (published by Oxford University Press in 2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, Haaretz\, The Forward\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, Foreign Policy and many other places. \nThursday\, January 14\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nThe Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine\nDov Waxman (UCLA)\nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Bedari Kindness Institute \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/the-question-of-antisemitism-a-guide-for-a-world-divided-by-israel-palestine-dov-waxman/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series
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SUMMARY:Priestly Mathematical Thought in Biblical and Second Temple Jewish Literatures - Liane M. Feldman
DESCRIPTION:Contrary to what we might think at first\, biblical and Second Temple Jewish literatures are filled with mathematical thought. The densest concentration of mathematical thought in these texts is found in writings concerned with priestly and priestly-adjacent matters such as temples and sacrifice. Embedded within larger narrative contexts\, these instances of counting\, calculation\, and measurement offer a unique glimpse into the socio-historical contexts of these texts and their relationship to broader knowledge networks in the ancient world. Mathematics in the ancient world\, as in modernity\, is highly contextual and culturally conditioned. How one counts or approaches even a simple arithmetical problem can and did vary widely. This talk will explore the diversity of maths in texts such as the pentateuchal priestly source\, Ezekiel\, and the Aramaic Levi Document and consider why counting and calculation might play substantial role in priestly literary writings. \nLiane Feldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source (Mohr Siebeck\, 2020) and The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source from Creation to the Promised Land (University of California\, 2023 and 2024). She is currently writing a monograph on numerate education and mathematical thought in the Bible under contract to be published in the Anchor Yale Reference Library. \nWednesday\, January 20\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nPriestly Mathematical Thought in Biblical and Second Temple Jewish Literatures\nLiane M. Feldman (Princeton University)\nThe Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series \nRSVP
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/priestly-mathematical-thought-in-biblical-and-second-temple-jewish-literatures-liane-m-feldman/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Languages of Marginality and Domination: Jews in Interwar Yugoslavia - Emil Kerenji
DESCRIPTION:The appearance of Yugoslavia on the political map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I confronted the culturally and linguistically diverse Jewish populations of the former Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian imperial borderlands with the question of what it meant to be a “Yugoslav” Jewish community. From Zionism to Sephardism\, Jewish activists negotiated the meanings\, limitations\, and fractures of Jewish politics in the complex mosaic of the newly unified western Balkans. Debates on various political questions\, amply and eagerly featured in the newly blossoming Jewish press in Serbo-Croatian\, reflected profound Jewish anxieties about Jewish cultural diversity and marginality\, both in the context of Yugoslavia and global Jewish politics and culture. This presentation outlines the most important political debates in the Serbo-Croatian Jewish press in Yugoslavia until the outbreak of World War II: the question of cultural hegemony of Yugoslav Zionism amidst the Ashkenazi/Sephardi communal rivalry; the question of purported political “backwardness” of the formerly Ottoman Sephardi communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia; and the question of national and international Jewish “colonization” and the relationship to Palestine. In so doing\, it portrays the community in flux\, marks the period of profound transformation\, and traces the literal and metaphorical new languages of community. \nEmil Kerenji is a historian of modern Jewish and East European history\, with expertise in the history of the Holocaust and World War II in Yugoslavia and the Balkans more broadly. His research focuses on the relationship of genocidal violence against Jews and violent nationalizing regional policies of states allied with Nazi Germany. He is also an expert on the history of Jewish communities in the western Balkans. Emil Kerenji has worked as a staff historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2009. He authored and co-authored the Museum’s publications on the history of Jewish responses to the Holocaust\, as well as many academic articles\, essays\, and academic and literary translations. \nThursday\, February 11\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nLanguages of Marginality and Domination: Jews in Interwar Yugoslavia\nEmil Kerenji (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)\nModerator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) \nAl Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
URL:https://levecenter.ucla.edu/event/languages-of-marginality-and-domination-jews-in-interwar-yugoslavia-emil-kerenji/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Al Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
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