UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Open House Celebration (2026-2027)
Tuesday, 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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UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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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...
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Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism – Elizabeth E. Imber
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesFollowing 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...