EVENT CANCELLED – Occupied City Film Screening
This event has been cancelled. Sunday, May 17, 2026 • James Bridges Theater • 2 PM Occupied City The Barbara Roisman Cooper and Martin Cooper Jewish Film Series ...
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14th Annual ucLADINO conference: The Ladino Diaspora and Community Resilience: Memory and Adaptation
In its fourteenth 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...
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The Past, Present, and Future of Jews and the Labor Movement in Los Angeles
What drew Jewish immigrants to the labor movement? How did unions become distinctly "Jewish" spaces - and what happened when they changed? Join historians, organizers, and community leaders for a...
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Happy Jews in the Roman Diaspora? The Case of Asia Minor (Anatolia) – Seth Schwartz
A dominant trend in scholarship about Jews in the Roman Imperial diaspora emphasizes the Jews' achievement of a successful balance between integration and separation, and regards this happy equilibrium as...
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Jews and Godfearers: Sardis and Aphrodisias, 400 CE – Seth Schwartz
The phenomenon of “Godfearing”—adoption by gentiles, usually supposed to have been pagan—of Jewish practices including support for local Jewish communities and attendance in synagogues—has loomed larger in scholarship than it...
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UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Open House Celebration (2026-2027)
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTuesday, September 29, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Open House Celebration Share a bite with the Leve Center faculty,...
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Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesZionism in Translation concerns exchanges—primarily of letters but also drafts, reviews, and other ephemera—sent to or from Jerusalem in the decades around 1948. All were written in German and Hebrew...
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Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust – Aliza Luft
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIt is well known that the French Catholic Church, which opposed Hitler before 1940, silenced itself during the German occupation. But Aliza Luft shows that the Church was more than...
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From Debdou’s Little Seville to America’s Guess: Rural Artisans and Global Designers – Aomar Boum
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesIn 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...
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Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles – Caroline Luce
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesYiddish 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...