In this talk, historian Julia Phillips Cohen discusses the unknown role that Jews from the eastern and southern Mediterranean played in the shaping of modern couture. Following two fashion houses...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Zionism 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...
It 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...
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...