| Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (Poet & Musician) Moderator: Rachel Kaufman (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies | 2023-2024 | 12/6/2023 | At the limits of language: Poetics amidst Violence | Poetry, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Zev Yaroslavsky (UCLA) Moderator: Caroline Luce (UCLA) | The Schonfeld Collection Program Series | 2023-2024 | 12/5/2023 | Zev’s Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power | Los Angeles, Politics | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy |
| Lia Brozgal (UCLA) & Rebecca Glasberg (Stanford) Discussant: Jill Jarvis (Yale) Intro: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2023-2024 | 11/30/2023 | A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, and the UCLA Department of History |
| David Biale (UC Davis) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | tta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Series | 2023-2024 | 11/29/2023 | Jewish Studies Then and Now: The Evolution of a Field Over the Last Half Century | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| David Biale (UC Davis) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | tta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Series | 2023-2024 | 11/28/2023 | Memoirs of a Counter-Historian: An Homage to UCLA | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of History |
| Wolf Gruner (USC) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies | 2023-2024 | 11/15/2023 | Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany | Holocaust Studies, Resistance, Germany, WW2 | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Cosponsored by UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA Department of History, and the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies |
| Organized by Michael Rothberg, Ben Ratskoff, and Zoé Samudzi | 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies | 2022-2023 | 5/22/2023-5/23/2023 | Civilization Breaks: Colonialism, Slavery, and the Holocaust | Holocaust Studies, Colonialism, Slavery | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Laura Arnold Leibman (Reed University) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2022-2023 | 5/30/2023 | Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Mahri Leonard Fleckman (College of the Holy Cross) Moderated by William Schniedewind (UCLA) | The Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series | 2022-2023 | 5/17/2023 | Mark of Contradictions: The Creation of Judah's History & the Case of Samson | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Kirsten Fermaglich (Michigan State University) Alex Stern (UCLA) Tony Michels (UW Madison) Moderator: Aliza Luft (UCLA) | Naftulin Family Program on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2022-2023 | 5/17/2023 | Anti-Semitism in America, Past, Present, and in Context | Antisemitism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Hillel at UCLA |
| Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel-Aviv University) Moderator: Todd Presner (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies | 2022-2023 | 5/15/2023 | Vulgar, Poetic and Full of Truth: Yiddish Words of the Holocaust | Holocaust Studies, Yiddish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Annette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard Divinity School) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Etta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence | 2022-2023 | 5/15/2023 | Lost Books: The Forgetfulness of Writing and the Forgetting of Jewish Past | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Center for the Study of Religion UCLA Department of History UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Department of Classics Jewish Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University |
| Annette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard Divinity School) Moderator: Catherine Bonesho (UCLA) | Etta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence | 2022-2023 | 5/15/2023 | Ancient Judaism between Christian Memory and Jewish Forgetting | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Center for the Study of Religion UCLA Department of History UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Department of Classics Jewish Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University |
| Rachel L. Einwohner (Purdue University) Moderator: Todd Presner (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies | 2022-2023 | 5/3/2023 | Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance in the Ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, and Łódź | Holocaust Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2022-2023 | 4/25/2023 | The Merchant of Venice and the Western Sephardic Diaspora: Fiction & History | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of History UCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies UCLA UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies |
| Keynote Speakers: Prof. Tabea Alexa Linhard (Washington University in St. Lous) Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff (Independent Scholar / Artist) | ucLADINO | 2022-2023 | 5/3/2023 | Poetic Pasts: Ladino History by Other Means - ucLADINO 2023 | Ladino | | Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies UCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Allison Schachter (Vanderbilt) Moderator: Ethan Pack (UCLA) Introduction: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2022-2023 | 3/30/2023 | Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 | Women and Jewish Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Eduardo Halfon (Author) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies | 2022-2023 | 3/15/2023 | History, Memory, Fiction: A Reading and Conversation with Eduardo Halfon | Literature, Holocaust Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Jordan D. Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Moderator: Catherine Bonesho (UCLA) | The Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series | 2022-2023 | 3/9/2023 | Beer, Business, and Halakhah in Rabbinic Literature | Rabbinic Literature, Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Maeera Shreiber (University of Utah) Moderated by Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2022-2023 | 3/2/2023 | Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian Borderzone | Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2022-2023 | 2/15/2023 | Another Zionism: Jessie Sampter, Queerness, and Disability | LGTBQ, Disability, Zionism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies UCLA Disability Studies UCLA LGTBQ Studies |
| Marla Stone (Occidental College) Giulia Albanese (University of Padua) Shira Klein (Chapman University) Guri Schwarz (University of Genova) and Special Guest Dr. Andrew Viterbi Moderated by Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | The Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2022-2023 | 2/8/2023 | New Approaches to Italian Fascism & Jewish Histories | Holocaust, Mediterranean Jewish, Italy, Fascism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies UCLA Department of History |
| Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) Aomar Boum (UCLA) Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies | 2022-2023 | 2/2/2023 | Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950 | North Africa, Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies UCLA Department of History UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies UCLA Department of Anthropology UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Susan Ackerman (Dartmouth) Moderator: William Schniedewind (UCLA) | The Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series | 2022-2023 | 1/26/2023 | Mothers and Rituals of Child-Naming in Ancient Israel | Hebrew Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Aomar Boum (UCLA), Moderated by Todd Presner (UCLA) | Sady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies | 2022-2023 | 1/26/2023 | Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa | North Africa, Holocaust Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies UCLA Department of History UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies UCLA Department of Anthropology UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| John-Paul Himka (University of Alberta) in discussion with Jared McBride (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies | 2022-2023 | 1/19/2023 | Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: A Book Discussion | Holocaust Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA) Sylvie-Anne Goldberg (EHESS) Tamar Morsel-Eisenberg (NYU) Marina Rustow (Princeton) Opening Remarks: Moshe Lapin Moderated by David N. Myers (UCLA) | | 2022-2023 | 12/8/2022 | Zakhor at 40: A Conversation on the Importance of Yosef Yerushalmi's Masterpiece | | The Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies The UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies |
| Mark Roseman (Indiana University, Bloomington) Moderator: Michael Rothberg | The Annual 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies | 2022-2023 | 12/8/2022 | Ordinary Monsters: The Holocaust and the Puzzle of Perpetration | Holocaust Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Paul Dahan (Centre de la Culture Judéo-Marocaine, Brussels) and Aomar Boum (UCLA) | Moroccan Jewish Studies Program Series | 2022-2023 | 11/29/2022 | Safeguarding Moroccan Jewish-Muslim Memory through Archival Collections | Moroccan Jewish Archives | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Matthias Lehmann (UC Irvine) Jessica Marglin (USC) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Sady & Ludwig Kahn Book Talk in German Jewish Studies | 2022-2023 | 11/9/2022 | Where Do Jews Belong? 2 Perspectives from the Jewish 19th Century | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCI Center for Jewish Studies USC School of Religion |
| Michael Frank (Author) with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2022-2023 | 10/22/2022 | One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World | Sephardic Jewish Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Emily Greble (Vanderbilt) with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Al Finci Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2022-2023 | 11/2/2022 | A Sarajevo Story: Jews, Muslims, and the Complexities of Rescue in a formerly Ottoman town | Jews and Muslims in Sarajevo, Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Department of History, UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies |
| Christopher Silver (McGill) with Aomar Boum (UCLA) | The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies | 2022-2023 | 10/26/2022 | Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across 20th Century North Africa | Sephardic Studies, Arab Music, North Africa | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Department of History |
| Devi Mays (University of Michigan) with Aomar Boum (UCLA) | The Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies | 2021-2022 | 6/1/2022 | Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardic Diaspora | Sephardic Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Andrea Ghez (UCLA) Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | 2021-22 Alan D. Leve Award Lecture | 2021-2022 | 5/25/2022 | From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole | Black Hole, Astronomy | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| David Myers (UCLA), Nomi Stolzenberg (USC), Michael Casper (Yale University), and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC) | Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity / Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies | 2021-2022 | 5/24/2022 | Between City and Shtetl: A Comparative Look at Contemporary Hasidic Life | Hasidic, New York | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Kenneth Moss (University of Chicago) with David N. Myers (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies | 2021-2022 | 5/10/2022 | An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland - Kenneth Moss book talk | Yiddish, Poland | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller (Shalom Hartman Institute of North America) | | 2021-2022 | 5/10/2022 | Hiddur Mitzva: A Journey Through Jewish Ritual Art | Art | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Federica Francesconi (State University of New York) with David N. Myers (UCLA) | The Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2021-2022 | 3/25/2022 | Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena from the Renaissance to the Emancipation | Jewish Identity, Italy, Modena, Mediterranean | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2021-2022 | 3/17/2022 | Remembering Possibility: Memory and Photography in Liquid Time | Photography, Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Seminar The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies | 2021-2022 | 3/17/2022 | The Zip Code Memory Project | Networks, Pandemic, COVID-19, Community | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Max Silverman (University of Leeds) and Moderator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies / Cluster Course Series | 2021-2022 | 3/3/2022 | Thinking in Dark Times: Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust and The Art of the Invisible | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Susan Gilson Miller (UC Davis) with Aomar Boum (UCLA) | UCLA Moroccan Jewish Studies Initiative Series | 2021-2022 | 3/3/2022 | Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa | North Africa, Moroccan Jewish Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Samuel J. Spinner (Johns Hopkins) with Lia Brozgal (UCLA) and Benjamin Kersten (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies | 2021-2022 | 2/28/2022 | Jewish Primitivism | Yiddish, Primitivism, Jewish Identity | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Jason Lustig (The University of Texas at Austin) with David N. Myers (UCLA) | The Annual Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies | 2021-2022 | 2/16/2022 | A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture | German, Archives | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University) with William Schniedewind (UCLA) | The Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series | 2021-2022 | 2/3/2022 | Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought | Bible, Ancient World | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College) with Jared McBride (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2021-2022 | 1/27/2022 | The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Kerry Sonia (Colby College) with Aaron Burke (UCLA) | The Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series | 2021-2022 | 1/11/2022 | Can These Bones Live? The Politics of Death in the Hebrew Bible | Bible, Ancient World | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Stacey Ravel Abarbanel (Writer/Producer) with Maxwell Greenberg (Washington University in St. Louis) | | 2021-2022 | 1/1/2022 | UnRaveling: A Conversation | Film, Pancho Villa | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Brett Ashley Kaplan (University of Illinois) Leah Garrett (Hunter College, CUNY) Benjamin Schreier (Penn State University) Maeera Y. Schreiber (University of Utah) Moderator: Dean Franco (Wake Forest University) Introduction: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Arnold Band Distinguished Program in Jewish Studies | 2021-2022 | 11/29/2021 | Rethinking American Jewish Literary Studies in the # MeToo Era (Or: Enough with Philip Roth) | Jewish Literature, metoo | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Moroccan Jewish Studies Initiative | 2021-2022 | 11/22/2021 | Moroccan Heritage Day Celebration and Launch of Moroccan Jewish Studies Initiative at UCLA 2021 | Moroccan Jewish Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Rachel Kaufman (UCLA) with Dalia Kandiyoti (CUNY) | Book Talk | 2021-2022 | 11/22/2021 | Many to Remember | Poetry | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Liora R. Halperin (University of Washington) with David N. Myers (UCLA) and Avery Weinman (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2021-2022 | 11/10/2021 | The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2021-2022 | 11/8/2021 | The Question Concerning Perpetrators | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Charles A. McDonald (Northwestern) with Aomar Boum (UCLA) | Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies | 2021-2022 | 11/3/2021 | Refusing the Gift of Citizenship | Sephardic Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Clémence Boulouque (Columbia) with Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) and Jessica Marglin (USC) | Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2021-2022 | 10/17/2021 | Mending Modernity: Reading Elia Benamozegh Today | Mediterranean Jewish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| A. Dirk Moses (UNC at Chapel Hill) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Book Talk in Holocaust Studies | 2021-2022 | 9/30/2021 | The Problems of Genocide Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Saul Noam Zaritt (Harvard) with Yasemin Yildiz (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2021-2022 | 9/23/2021 | Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody | Yiddish, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| George J. Sánchez (USC) & Caroline Luce (UCLA) with Genevieve Carpio (UCLA) & Rob Eshman (The Forward) | | 2020-2021 | 6/9/21 | New Approaches to Boyle Heights: A Conversation | Boyle Heights | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Natan M. Meir (Portland State University) with Jared McBride (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2020-2021 | 5/18/21 | Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 | Yiddish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Amelia Glaser (UC San Diego) with Samuel Spinner (Johns Hopkins) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2020-2021 | 5/12/21 | Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine | Yiddish, Poetry | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Eli Bromberg (Fordham University) with Benjamin Ratskoff (UCLA) | Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2020-2021 | 4/27/21 | Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Alma Heckman (UC Santa Cruz) with Chris Silver (McGill) and Aomar Boum (UCLA) | Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies | 2020-2021 | 4/26/21 | The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging | Morocco | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| | 2020-2021 | 4/7/21 | ucLADINO: Ottoman Legacies, Emigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads (Day 2 of 2) | Ladino | | |
| | 2020-2021 | 4/7/21 | ucLADINO: Ottoman Legacies, Emigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads (Day 1 of 2) | Ladino | | |
| | 2020-2021 | 3/4/21 | Holocaust at the Crossroads: West and Sub-Saharan African Approaches to African, Holocaust, and Jewish Studies | Holocaust, Africa | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| Lia Brozgal (UCLA) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2020-2021 | 4/12/21 | Absent the Archive | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Laura Levitt (Temple University) with Aliza Luft (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Book Talk in Holocaust Studies | 2020-2021 | 4/12/21 | The Objects that Remain | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The 1939 Society |
| Daniel Bodi (La Sorbonne – University of Paris) with William Schniedewind (UCLA) | Bible and the Ancient World Series | 2020-2021 | 3/11/21 | The Demise of the Warlord: A New Interpretation of David and Bathsheba in Light of an Amorite and Akkadian Topos | Bible, Ancient World | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Erin Darby (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) with Aaron Burke (UCLA) | Bible and the Ancient World Series | 2020-2021 | 3/11/21 | A Judean, an Edomite, and a Negevite Walk into a Shrine: The Archaeology of Religion in Southern Israel | Bible, Ancient World | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Annette Yoshiko Reed (NYU) with Catherine Bonesho (UCLA) | Bible and the Ancient World Series | 2020-2021 | 3/11/21 | Scribes, Stars, and Demons in Ancient Judaism and the Hellenistic Near East | Bible, Ancient World | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Opening Remarks: Noam Pianko (President of the AJS) & Shmuel Feiner (Chair of the Historical Society of Israel) Speakers: Maud Mandel (Williams College), Devin E. Naar (University of Washington), Iris Idelson-Shein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), and Anita Shapira (Tel Aviv University) Moderator: David N. Myers (UCLA) | | 2020-2021 | 2/23/21 | The Task of the Jewish Historian Today: A Conversation | | The Historical Society of Israel Association for Jewish Studies The International Association of Historical Societies for the Study of Jewish History The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies The UCLA Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History | |
| David S. Koffman (York University) and Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University) in conversation with Caroline Luce (UCLA) | | 2020-2021 | 2/22/21 | Jews and the American West: Violence, Race, and Masculinity | American West | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Alyssa Quint (Yeshiva University) with Amelia Glaser (UCSD) and Todd Presner (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2020-2021 | 2/16/21 | Performance in 19th Century Russia and the Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater | Yiddish Theater | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Geneviève Zubrzycki (University of Michigan) with Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2020-2021 | 1/26/21 | Nationalism, Mnemonic Wars and Poland’s “Holocaust Speech Law” | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| William Schniedewind (UCLA) with Aaron Burke (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2020-2021 | 1/12/21 | The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Josh Kun (USC) | 2019-2020 Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture | 2020-2021 | 12/10/20 | Jewish Listening: A Reckoning | Music, Israel, Palestine | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Deborah Starr (Cornell) with Aomar Boum (UCLA) | Luminos Book Talk | 2020-2021 | 11/24/20 | Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema | Cinema | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Bryan K. Roby (University of Michigan) with Aomar Boum (UCLA) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2020-2021 | 11/5/20 | Israel through a Colored Lens: African-American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis | Race, Sephardic, African-American, Israel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Elissa Bemporad (CUNY) with Boris Dralyuk (L.A. Review of Books) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2020-2021 | 10/20/20 | The Blood Libel in Modern Eastern Europe: A Social History | Yiddish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Tony Michels (UW Madison) in conversation with practitioners and critics of comedy, including Jessica Chaffin, Jena Friedman, Lynn Harris, Michaela Watkins, and Josh Kun (USC) | Natalie Limonick Program on Jewish Civilization | 2020-2021 | 10/18/20 | “If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends”: Jews Making Trouble, Jews Making Comedy | Comedy | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Simon Levis Sullam (Ca’Foscari University of Venice) | Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2020-2021 | 10/7/20 | The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy | Holocaust, Italy, Mediterranean | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA), Dean Franco (Wake Forest University), Lila Corwin-Berman (Temple University), Aomar Boum (UCLA), Sultan Doughan (Boston University), Maxwell Greenberg (UCLA), and Benjamin Ratskoff (UCLA) | | 2020-2021 | 9/24/20 | A Teach-In on Jewish Studies, Race, and Anti-Racism | Race | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Sunny Yudkoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Nayan Shah (USC), and Caroline Luce (UCLA) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2019-2020 | 6/3/20 | Contagion, Culture, and Care | Yiddish Studies, Epidemics | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Benjamin Balint (Author) | Book Talk | 2019-2020 | 5/20/20 | Jerusalem: City of the Book | Book Talk | | |
| Leandra Zarnow (University of Houston) | | 2019-2020 | 3/11/20 | Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug | Book Talk | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | | 2019-2020 | 3/5/20 | The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Daniel Machiela (McMaster University) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2019-2020 | 2/25/20 | From Enoch to Daniel: Reimagining the Past in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Dina Danon (Binghamton University) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2019-2020 | 2/12/20 | Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir | Sephardic/Mizrahi | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Tammi Schneider (Claremont University) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2019-2020 | 1/30/20 | Through the Female Gaze: Men in the Book of Genesis | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Marc Brettler (Duke University) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2019-2020 | 1/27/20 | Does Jewish Biblical Scholarship Exist: A Historical Perspective | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The Center for the Study of Religion |
| Omer Bartov (Brown University) | Annual 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2019-2020 | 1/23/20 | Anatomy of a Genocide: A Case Study in Mass Murder | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, The UCLA Department of Slavic, Eastern European & Eurasian Languages and Culture |
| Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (POLIN) | Biennial Leve Award Lecture | 2019-2020 | 1/16/20 | Risky Business: The Future of Jewish Museums | Modern Jewish History & Culture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, The Fowler Museum, The UCLA School of Theater, Film, Television, Yiddishkayt, and The 1939 Society |
| Pamela Nadell (American University) | | 2019-2020 | 12/3/19 | America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today | Modern Jewish History & Culture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for the Study of Women |
| Mikhal Dekel (The City College of New York) | 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2019-2020 | 11/21/19 | Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of English |
| Adina Hoffman (Author) | | 2019-2020 | 10/31/19 | Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures | Language & Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, The UCLA Department of History |
| Peter Cole (Yale) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2019-2020 | 10/29/19 | Back to the Future of al-Andalus: A Poetry Reading and Conversation | Language & Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of English |
| Karen Grumberg (University of Texas at Austin) | Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2019-2020 | 10/23/19 | Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution | Language & Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature |
| Open House | 2019-2020 | 10/16/19 | Leve Center Open House Celebration | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| | 2018-2019 | 11/05-06/2018 | Global Histories of German Literature | German Literature | Freie Universitat Berlin | |
| ucLADINO 8th Annual Symposium | 2018-2019 | 02/25-26/2019 | La Boz del Pueblo: The Voices of Sephardic Jews | | ucLADINO | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese |
| | 2018-2019 | 01/12-13/2019 | UClezLA | Performance | UCLA Herb Alpert's School of Music's Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Chad Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Sady & Ludwig Kahn Lecture Series in German Jewish Studies | 2018-2019 | 5/29/19 | The Jewish Touchstone in the German Critique of Capitalism | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Sociology, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Studies, The UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies |
| Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) | Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture | 2018-2019 | 5/16/19 | When Politics Aren't Political: The Depoliticization of American Jewish Politics | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | History Institute of American Cultures, The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy |
| Oren Kosansky (Lewis & Clark University) | Averroes Lecture Series | 2018-2019 | 5/15/19 | Mahia on the Market: On the History of a Moroccan Jewish Commodity | | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) | Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture | 2018-2019 | 5/14/19 | American Jewish Exceptionalism's Antisemitism Problem | | | |
| Shari Rabin | Book talk | 2018-2019 | 5/14/19 | Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack | Literature/Music | UCLA Herb Alpert's School of Music's Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Shirli Gilbert (University of Southhampton) | The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2018-2019 | 5/9/19 | South African Jews, the Holocaust, and Apartheid | African Jews & Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Deborah Landis (UCLA), Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA), Elizabeth Greenberg, Betsy Heimann, Rita Ryack, Arianne Phillips, Danny Glicker, Erin Benach, Michael Kaplan, Deena Appel | Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2018-2019 | 5/5/19 | Jewish Thread: The Hidden History of Costume Design in Hollywood | Documentary/Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Skirball, EVO, The UCLA TFT David C. Copley Center for Costume Design |
| Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University) | Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2018-2019 | 5/2/19 | Global Itineraries of Holocaust Memory: The Jewish Carribean and Nazi Persecution in Literature and Art | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Program in Caribbean Studies of the Latin American Institute, The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, The UCLA Department of English, Spanish & Poruguese |
| Michael David Lukas (Author) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2018-2019 | 4/30/19 | The Last Watchman of Old Cairo | Language & Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Department of English |
| Caroline Luce (UCLA) | Lecture on Jewish Los Angeles Series | 2018-2019 | 4/18/19 | The Bund in the Borderlands | Jewish American | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Michelle Campos (Stanford) | Averroes Lecture Series | 2018-2019 | 4/15/19 | Unmixing the Holy City: Urban Coexistence and Segregation in Early 20th Century Jerusalem | | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies at UCLA | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Jennie Ebeling (University of Evansville) | Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series | 2018-2019 | 4/11/19 | Feeding the Gods in Ancient Israel | Ancient Israel & Culture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Dalia Yasharpour (UCLA) | | 2018-2019 | 4/9/19 | The Seventeenth Century Judeo-Persian Adaptation of the Buddha Biographies | Language & Literature | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| James Loefeler (University of Virginia) | | 2018-2019 | 4/8/19 | Double Amnesia: Rethinking the History of Zionism and Human Rights | Jewish History & Literature | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studie | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Lyndsey Stonebridge (University of Birmingham) | The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2018-2019 | 4/4/19 | Hannah Arendt's Message of Ill-Tidings | Language & Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department Comparative Literature, Promise Institute for Human Rights International and Comparative Law Program |
| Michael Rothberg (UCLA) | The Annual 1939 Society Lecture In Holocaust Studies | 2018-2019 | 3/14/19 | Unexpected Itineraries: Holocaust Testimony beyond Borders | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of English, German Consulate, Letters and Science |
| Marc Epstein (Vassar College) | Maurice Amado Lecture in Sephardic Studies | 2018-2019 | 3/7/19 | Thought Crimes: Subversive Politics in Art Made for Medieval Jews | Medieval Art | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Art History |
| Mark Leuchter (Temple University) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2018-2019 | 3/5/19 | How Moses Became a Levite | Hebrew Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Dean Franco (Wake Forest University) | Lecture on Jewish Los Angeles Series | 2018-2019 | 2/28/19 | The Matter of the Neighbor: Budd Schulberg, James Baldwin, and the Watts Writers Workshop | Jewish American | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department Comparative Literature, The UCLA Department of English |
| Concert & Pre-Concert Lecture | 2018-2019 | 2/27/19 | From India to Indiana: Melding Music | Film | UCLA Herb Alpert's School of Music's Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Sara Milstein (University of British Columbia) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2018-2019 | 2/12/19 | Preservation & Innovation: The Tracks of the Master Scribe | Hebrew Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Amir Vodka (University of Amsterdam) | Natalie Limonick Program in Jewish Civilizations | 2018-2019 | 1/29/19 | The Human Chameleon: Hybrid Jews in Cinema | Cinema/Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, The UCLA Department Comparative Literature, UCLA Melnitz Movies, The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television |
| Steven Zipperstein (Stanford) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2018-2019 | 1/24/19 | Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History | Russian Jewish, History & Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies |
| Carly Crouch (Fuller Theological Seminary) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2018-2019 | 1/23/19 | Dwelling on the Past and Longing for Home: Israel in Exile | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Ari Ariel (University of Iowa) | Averroes Lecture Series | 2018-2019 | 1/22/19 | Yearning for Yemen: Migration and Memory | | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Liran Yadgar (UCLA/Yale) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2018-2019 | 1/17/19 | The Legend of Khaybar: A Jewish "Kingdom" in the Arabian Desert | Jewish History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures |
| Peter Lanfer (UCLA) | | 2018-2019 | 1/16/19 | Finding Faithfulness in all the Wrong Places: Making Sacred Sense of Drunkenness, Deceit, and Debauchery in the Hebrew Bible | Literature & Hebrew Bible | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Khalid Ben-srhir (Mohammed V University, Rabat) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2018-2019 | 1/15/19 | Jewish Studies in Morocco: A Conversation | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Near Easter Studies, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Aomar Boum (UCLA), Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Book Launch | 2018-2019 | 11/27/18 | The Holocaust and North Africa | Holocaust studies, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Studies,The UCLA Department of Anthropology, The UCLA Department of History, UCLA African Studies Center |
| Andrew Berns (University of South Carolina) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2018-2019 | 11/15/18 | 'The Foundation of the World:' the Ecological Ideas of Post-Expulsion Spanish Jews in Italy and the Ottoman Empire | Sephardic Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Shira Klein (Chapman University) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2018-2019 | 11/14/18 | A Place in the Sun: Italian Jews and the Colonization of Africa | Italian Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Italian, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Department of English |
| Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University) | Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series | 2018-2019 | 11/13/18 | Israel and the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion during the Early Iron Age | Ancient Israel & Literature | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Cotsen Institute for Archaeology |
| Film Screening | 2018-2019 | 11/4/18 | Paul Cronin | Film | The UCLA Department of Anthropology | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Omri Asscher (UCLA) | | 2018-2019 | 10/29/18 | Translation as a Bridge? Ideological Encounters between Israeli & American Jewish Cultures | Israeli & Jewish American | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Justin Akers Chacon (Author) | Lecture on Jewish Los Angeles Series | 2018-2019 | 10/16/18 | Radicals in the Barrio | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, The UCLA Department of History |
| Aaron Rubin (Penn State University) | | 2018-2019 | 10/15/18 | The Relationship of Egyptian and Semitic | Linguistics and Culture | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Hannah Kosstrin (Ohio State University) | | 2018-2019 | 10/9/18 | Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis | | The UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies |
| | 2017-2018 | 11/05-07/2017 | American Culture and the Jewish Experience in Music | Jewish American Music | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| French Graduate Student Association Conference | 2017-2018 | 10/12-13/2017 | Que sais-je? Rethinking Learning and Knowledge | Conference | The UCLA Department of French and Francophonr Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| ucLADINO 7th Annual Symposium | 2017-2018 | 03/14-15/2018 | New Directions, Old Roots | Symposium | ucLADINO | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, UCLA Student Organizations, Leadership & Engagment |
| Ofer Ben-Amots (Colorado College) | Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music Lecture Series | 2017-2018 | 5/24/18 | Celestial Dialogues: The Essence of Jewish Music from a Composer's Perspective | Jewish American Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music | |
| Atina Grossman (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art) | Sady & Ludwig Kahn Lecture Series in German Jewish Studies | 2017-2018 | 5/17/18 | Trauma, Privelege, and Adventure in Transit: German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India | Jewish American | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Program of Iranian Studies |
| Galit Hasan-Rokem (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Annual Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2017-2018 | 5/10/18 | Is the Wandering Jew in Contemporary Israeli Literature a Paradox? | Jewish American, Language and Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies |
| Verbi Symposium in Mediterranean Jewish Studies Series | 2017-2018 | 5/6/18 | Primo Levi for the Public | Symposium | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Italian Centro Primo Levi, The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles |
| Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2017-2018 | 5/1/18 | Colonial Tunisia from the Gutter Up: 'Ninette of Sine Street.' Jews, Translation, and Franco-Tunisian Literature | Language and Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, The UCLA Department of History |
| Lia Brozgal (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2017-2018 | 5/1/18 | Colonial Tunisia from the Gutter Up: 'Ninette of Sine Street.' Jews, Translation, and Franco-Tunisian Literature | Language and Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, The UCLA Department of History |
| Mark R. Cohen (Princeton) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranen Jewish Studies | 2017-2018 | 4/24/18 | Maimonides and the Merchants | Language and Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture |
| Robert Mullins (Azusa Pacific University) | Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series | 2017-2018 | 4/17/18 | Abel Beth Maacah: Uncovering the Secrets of a Biblical City | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA Costen Institute of Archaeology |
| UCLA Latin American adn Iberian Film Festival, Film Screening | 2017-2018 | 4/16/18 | The Tenth Man | Documentary/ Film | The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese | Latin American Institute, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Lior Sternfeld (Penn State University) | Averroes Lecture Series | 2017-2018 | 4/16/18 | Between Equal Citizenship and the Promise of Redemption: Iranian Jewish Identity and the Turn of the Twentieth Century | Jewish American | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Samuel Kassow (Trinity College) | Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Seminar | 2017-2018 | 4/16/18 | Culture and Resistance in Wartime Ghettos: Case Studies from Lodz, Vilna, and Warsaw | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The 1939 Society, Samuel Goetz Society Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research,The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust |
| Samuel Kassow (Trinity College) | Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Seminar | 2017-2018 | 4/15/18 | Who Will Write Our History? | Documentary/ Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The 1939 Society, Samuel Goetz Society Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research,The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust |
| Samuel Kassow (Trinity College) | Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Seminar | 2017-2018 | 4/12/18 | History and Resistance: Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The 1939 Society, Samuel Goetz Society Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research,The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust |
| Thomas Schneider (University of British Columbia) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2017-2018 | 3/13/18 | The Stigma of Submission, Or: What Happened to Sisera in Judges 5, 25-27? | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Sephardic Archive Initiative | 2017-2018 | 3/11/18 | Save the Data: A Sephardic Antique Roadshow | | The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Library Special Collections |
| Lillian M. Wohl (UCLA) | Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music Lecture Series | 2017-2018 | 3/8/18 | Jews, Music, and Modernity in Buenos Aires | Jewish American Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music | The American Society for Jewish Music |
| Philippe Sands (University College London) | The Annual 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2017-2018 | 2/27/18 | East West Street: A Personal History of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity | Language and Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, |
| Performance | 2017-2018 | 2/25/18 | Tevye & Company | Performance | California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language | UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Edward Portnoy (Rutgers University) | Michael and Irene Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2017-2018 | 2/22/18 | Bad Rabbi And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2017-2018 | 2/20/18 | Did Adam Fall, Stumble, or Stub His Toe in the Garden od Eden? A New Look at an Ancient Story | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| David N. Myers (UCLA) | Book Talk | 2017-2018 | 2/13/18 | Why Study Jewish History? | Language and Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA Center for European & Eurasian Studies, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University) | | 2017-2018 | 2/12/18 | To Play the Fool: The Book of Esther in Early Modern German, English, and Yiddish Drama | Play | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The UCLA Department of English | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Reading with Commentary | 2017-2018 | 2/7/18 | Women, Weddings, and Reversals: Hebrew Comedies of the Renaissance and Baroque Dramatic Readings with Commentary | | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Ofer Nur (Tel Aviv University) | Faculty/Student Seminar | 2017-2018 | 2/6/18 | What Does the Word Lesbian Mean in Palestine in 1923? | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA LGBTQ Studies Program, The UCLA Department of History |
| Sara Milstein (University of British Columbia) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2017-2018 | 1/23/18 | Preservation and Innovation: The Tracks of the Master Scribe | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Department for the Study of Religion |
| Aron Rodrigue (Stanford) | Averroes Lecture Series | 2017-2018 | 1/22/18 | Between the Ottoman Empire and Italy: The Jews of Rhodes 1880- 1936 | | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Alan R. Marcus (University of Aberdeen) | Screenings | 2017-2018 | 1/11/18 | In the Birch Grove and the The Forgotten Jew in the City of Youth | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA School of Theater, FIlm and Television, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History |
| Fabrizio Lelli (University of Salento, Lecce) | | 2017-2018 | 1/10/18 | Love, War, Ethics and Science: Jewish and Christian Poetics in Fifiteenth-Century Southern Italy | | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Josh Lambert (University of Massachesetts, Amherst) | Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2017-2018 | 11/30/17 | New Media Jews: "Transparent," podcasting, and the Place of Jews in 21st-Century American Culture | Language and Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, The UCLA French & Francophone Studies, The UCLA Center for the Study of Women, The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of Gender Studies |
| A Play Reading | 2017-2018 | 11/20/17 | Suddenly, A Knock on the Door | Performance | Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA, Jewish Women's Theater |
| | 2017-2018 | 11/16/17 | The Balfour Declaration and its Legacy | | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Burkle Center for International Relations | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| David Ilan (Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem) | Lecture in Archaeology of Ancient Israel Series | 2017-2018 | 11/14/17 | How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective | Israeli Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Julia Philips Cohen (Vanderbilt University) | Averroes Lecture Series | 2017-2018 | 11/8/17 | A Model Minority? Sephardi Jews in the Late Ottoman Empire | Sephardic Jews | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Mark Kligman (UCLA) | | 2017-2018 | 11/5/17 | David's Quilt | Jewish American Music | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Yossi Sucary | | 2017-2018 | 11/2/17 | The Unspoken Holocaust | | The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UC San Diego Jewish Studies Program, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| | 2017-2018 | 10/26/17 | Triple Art Opening: Bread & Salt- The Art of Jewish Food | | Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Yehuda Sharim (Rice University) | | 2017-2018 | 10/26/17 | we are in it | Film Screening | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration, The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance |
| Mostafa Hussein (USC) | | 2017-2018 | 10/25/17 | Islam and Jews in the Holy Land: Land and Nature and the Construction of Jewish Culture | | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Rabbi Elliot Dorff (American Jewish University) | Inagural Leve Award Celebration and Open House | 2017-2018 | 10/24/17 | I'm Right, You Don't Agree, So You Must Be Wrong': Grounds for Plularism in the Jewish and American Communites | Open House | | |
| Peter Machinist (Harvard) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2016-2017 | 01//24/2017 | Hear, O Israel, Yahweh is Our God, Yahweh is One!' Concepts of Deity in the Hebrew Bible | Hebrew Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| UCLA/Boyle Heights Community Program Partnership | 2016-2017 | 6/4/17 | Boyle Heights Folk Festival | Culture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Yiddishkayt, UC Humanities Research Institute, Jewish Historical Society of Souther California, Breed Street Shul Project |
| Amos Morris-Reich (University of Haifa) | Sady & Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German-Jewish Studies | 2016-2017 | 5/25/17 | Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence | History, German Jewish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of Art History |
| Marjorie Perloff (Stanford & USC) | A Book Talk | 2016-2017 | 5/16/17 | The Making of Austro-Modernism | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of Italian, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature |
| Michal Lemberger (Author) | A Book Talk | 2016-2017 | 5/9/17 | Imaginative Engagement: Women of the Hebrew Bible in After Abel and Other Stories | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of History |
| Joseph Bristow (UCLA) | A Book Talk | 2016-2017 | 5/2/17 | Oscar Wilde and the Jews | LIterature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature |
| Steven Fine (Yeshiva University), Talya Fishman (University of Pennsylvania), Daniel Stein-Kokin (UCLA/Universitat Greifswald) | Viterbi Symposium in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2016-2017 | 4/27/17 | Jewish Visual Culture in the Mediterranean Basin | Symposium | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Italian, The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
| Mark L. Smith (UCLA) | | 2016-2017 | 4/25/17 | The Yiddish Historians of the Holocaust and the Prewar Tradition of Yiddish Historical Scholarship | Holocaust & Yiddish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The 1939 Society |
| Christine Hayes (Yale) | Bible and Its Interpreters Series | 2016-2017 | 4/4/17 | Divine Law and Community Boundaries in Jewish Antiquity | Ancient Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Study of Religion, The UCLA Department of History |
| Fabrizio Lelli (University of Salento, Lecce) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2016-2017 | 3/16/17 | Memory and Continuity of the Southern Italian Jewish Legacy | Mediterranean Jewish Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Italian, Italian Culture Institute of Los Angeles |
| Devin Naar (University of Washington) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2016-2017 | 3/14/17 | Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece | Sephardic Jewish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Department of Classics |
| Robert Alter (UC Berkeley) | Annual Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2016-2017 | 3/9/17 | Anti-Prophecy in the Poetry of H.N. Bialik | Poetry | | The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature |
| UCLA/Boyle Heights Community Program Partnership | 2016-2017 | 3/5/17 | 100 Years of Garment Work in LA: An International Women's Day Celebration | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Yiddishkayt, The UCLA Labor Center, UC Humanities Research Institute |
| ucLADINO | 2016-2017 | 3/1/17 | Community and Continuity ucLADINO Symposium | Symposium | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies |
| Rachel Havrelock (University of Illinois at Chicago) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2016-2017 | 2/28/17 | The Joshua Generation: How David Ben-Gurion and his Poilitcal Successors Read the Biblical Book of Conquest | Bible, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Lauren Monroe (Cornell) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2016-2017 | 2/21/17 | Joseph and the Genesis of Ancient Israel | Bible, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Department of History |
| Lior Sternfeld (Penn State) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2016-2017 | 2/14/17 | The Jews and the Iranian Nation Building Projects of the 20th Century | Sephardic Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Susan Ackerman (Dartmouth) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2016-2017 | 2/7/17 | Drumming Away Demons | Bible, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Department of Anthropology, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Susan Suleiman (Harvard) | Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2016-2017 | 1/26/17 | Jewish Identity in Question: The Legacy of Irene Nemirovsky | Russian Jewish & Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of French and Francophones Studies, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature |
| Symposium | 2016-2017 | 1/22/17 | Championing Civil Rights and Resisting Injustice: Rabbi Joachin Prinz and Kurt Weill | German Jewish, Symposium | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | The UCLA Department of Musicology, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, The UCLA Department of History, The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| The 1939 Society Program in Holocaust Studies | 2016-2017 | 1/19/17 | Book Launch and Symposium: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The 1939 Society, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Comparative Languages |
| Timothy Harrison (University of Toronto) | Lecturer in Archeology of Ancient Israel Studies | 2016-2017 | 1/12/17 | Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’: Recent Discoveries at Tayinat on the Orontes | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology |
| | 2016-2017 | 12/18/16 | AJS Welcome Reception | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Daniel Stein Kokin (UCLA and Universität Greifswald) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2016-2017 | 12/7/16 | Rome in the Jewish Imagination | Mediterranean Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Italian, The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance studies |
| Mira Balberg (Northwestern) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2016-2017 | 12/6/16 | The Rabbinic Sacrificial Vision and the Roman Imperial Cult | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Department of History |
| Stefan Beyerle (Universität Greifswald) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2016-2017 | 11/29/16 | 'Lock and Key': The History of Ancient Israel between the Hebrew Bible and Archaeology | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Richard Kalmin (Jewish Theological Seminary), Jason Mokhtarian (Indiana), Christine Hayes (Yale) | | 2015-2016 | 02/29/2015 | Talmudic Tales in their Iranian Context | Iranian Jews, Sephardic, Talmud | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Program for Iranian Studies |
| John M. Efron (UC Berkeley) | | 2015-2016 | 6/2/16 | German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic | Sephardic, German-Jewish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Caroline Luce (UCLA), Sunny Yudkoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | | 2015-2016 | 5/24/16 | "On the Trail with Lung-Fellow": Tuberculosis and Yiddish Literature in American West | Yiddish, literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Arnold J. Band (UCLA)` | Annual Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2015-2016 | 5/12/16 | The First Decade of Israeli Literature: The Case of Aharon Appelfeld | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture |
| Rachel Neis (UCLA) | | 2015-2016 | 5/5/16 | What is a human? The Early Rabbis on Uterine Materials and the Makings of Species | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Renata Fuchs (UCLA), Deborah Hertz (UCSD), May Mergenthaler (OSU) | Sady and Ludwig Kahn Symposium on German Jewish Studies | 2015-2016 | 4/19/16 | Affairs of the Mind: The Salon and Jewish Women Writers | Jewish Women, German-Jewish, Romantic Literary Movement | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Eyal Ginio (Hebrew University) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2015-2016 | 4/19/16 | The Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire: Between Participation and Exlusion | Ottoman Jews, Ladino | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA), Jessica Marglin (USC), Gina Nahai (Author), Shula Nazarian (Gallerist), Daniel Bouskila (Rabbi) | | 2015-2016 | 4/17/16 | Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America: Continuity and Transformation from Within | Cultural and Religious Integrity | USC Casden Institute | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Dalia Sofer (Author) | Maurice Amado Lecture in Sephardic Studies | 2015-2016 | 4/14/16 | The Septembers of Shiraz | Iranian Jews, Sephardic | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Yale Strom (Composer) | | 2015-2016 | 4/10/16 | The Polonski Concert: Soviet Jewish Songbook | Music, Soviet | Dortor Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel, California Institute for Yiddish Culture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music |
| Lawrence E. Stager (Harvard) | | 2015-2016 | 4/5/16 | Rites of Spring in the Carthaginian Tophet | Phoenicia(Canaan), Syria, Archeology | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London) | The 1939 Society Distinguished Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2015-2016 | 3/31/16 | Rethinking Liberation | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History |
| Payton Phillips Quintanilla (UCLA), Cheri Robinson (UCLA) | 5th Annual Symposium | 2015-2016 | 3/2/16 | ucLadino Symposium | Judeo-Spanish, Music | ucLadino, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese |
| Neil W. Netanel (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Book Seminar | 2015-2016 | 3/1/16 | From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print | Jewish Law, Jewish Law in Modern day | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | NEH Endowment in Jewish Civilization |
| The New Budapest Orpheum Society | 2015-2016 | 2/25/16 | Some for Laughs, Some for Tears- Jewish Cabaret between Berlin and Hollywood | music | UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music |
| Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago), Tamara Levitz (UCLA), Paul Lerner (USC), Stephan Pennington (Tufts) | Mickey Katz Symposium in Jewish Music | 2015-2016 | 2/25/16 | The Cabaretesque in Jewish Music | Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Musicology |
| Eva Mroczek (UC Davis) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2015-2016 | 2/23/16 | Imagining Scripture before the Bible: Shapes of Sacred Writing in Early Judaism | Bible, Jewish Writers, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Los Angeles Jewish Home | 2015-2016 | 2/21/16 | History Fair for Residents and their Families | LA Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles Jewish Home | |
| Liora Halperin (University of Colorado, Boulder) | Faculty/Student Seminar | 2015-2016 | 2/18/16 | Babel in Zion, Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine | Language, Israel, Palestine | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| | 2015-2016 | 2/17/16 | Light out of Darkness | Holocaust, Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Hillel at UCLA |
| Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University) | Mickey Katz Lecture in Jewish Music | 2015-2016 | 2/11/16 | Songs that Speak: Reflections on Research Among the Ethiopoan Jews | Ethiopian Jews, Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA Coleman African Studies Center, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2015-2016 | 2/9/16 | The Money Launderer's Daughter: A Sephardic Woman and a Slave Rumor in the Early Modern Mediterranean | Sephardic Jews, Literature, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Olivia C. Harrison (USC), Teresa Villa-Ignacio (Tulane) | | 2015-2016 | 2/8/16 | Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics | Moroccan, Literature & Culture, North Africa | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies |
| Gil Z. Hochberg (UCLA), Rebecca Stein (Duke) | | 2015-2016 | 2/4/16 | Visual and Digital Occupations in Israel/Palestine | Israel, Palestine, Digital Technology | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Digital Humanitites Program |
| Mark S. Smith (NYU) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2015-2016 | 2/2/16 | The Three Bodies of God in the Hebrew Bible | Hebrew Bible, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller (Hillel at UCLA) | Symposium | 2015-2016 | 1/31/16 | L'Chaim to Chaim: Honoring Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller | Symposium, Music | Hillel at UCLA | Leve Center, The UCLA Department of History |
| Jeremy D. Smoak (UCLA) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2015-2016 | 1/26/16 | From Ritual Space to Ritual Text: New Light on the Background of the Priestly Blesssing in Ancient Judah | History, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Atalia Omer (University of Notre Dame) | Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2015-2016 | 1/21/16 | Refiguring American Jewish Identity: The Palestine Chapter | Jewish-American, Palestine, Social Media, Jewish Identity, Solidarity Movement | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Mark Kligman (UCLA), Neil Brostoff (UCLA) | George F. Handel's Judas Maccabaeus | 2015-2016 | 12/6/15 | George F. Handel's Judas Maccabaeus | Concert, Music, Hanukkah | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, Wilshire Boulevard Temple | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Nadav Molchadsky (UCLA) | | 2015-2016 | 12/3/15 | Above and Beyond | Film, War of Independence, Israel, American Jews | Student Leadership Council of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Hillel at UCLA |
| Shira Klein (Chapman University) | Viterbi Seminar in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2015-2016 | 12/1/15 | Why Italian Jews Liked Facism | Italy, History, Photography | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, The UCLA Department of Italian |
| Yona Sabar (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Book Seminar | 2015-2016 | 11/24/15 | The Book of Daniel in Jewish Neo-Aramaic Translation | Literature, Aramaic text,Translation | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Simon Ruthberg (Owner, Hatikvah Music) | | 2015-2016 | 11/22/15 | Meet me at Yiddish Rock 'n Roll: An Unlikely Though Harmonious Intersection on Fairfax | Yiddish music | Hillel at UCLA, California Instiute for Yiddish Culture and Languages | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Kerri P. Steinberg (Otis College of Arts and Design) | Faculty/Student Book Seminar | 2015-2016 | 11/17/15 | Jewish Mad Men | History, New York Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| | 2015-2016 | 11/16/15 | On The Margins of the Holocaust | Holocaust, North Africa, Muslims, Colonialism, Second World War | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The 1939 Society | |
| | 2015-2016 | 11/15/15 | On The Margins of the Holocaust | Holocaust, North Africa, Muslims, Colonialism, Second World War | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The 1939 Society | |
| Jamaa Baida (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco) | | 2015-2016 | 11/12/15 | Academic Research on Moroccan Judaism: Historiography, Sources and Archives | Morocco, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Anthropology, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies |
| David Bezmozgis (Author) | Book Talk Series | 2015-2016 | 11/5/15 | The Betrayers | Literature, Israel, Soviet Union | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures |
| Gil P. Klein (Loyola Marymount University) | Rabbis and other Jews in the Ancient World Series | 2015-2016 | 11/3/15 | Sabbath as City: Rabbinic Urbanism and Imperial Territoriality in Roman Palestine | Rabbinic Literature, Roman | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Relik Shafir (Pilot), Steven Spiegel (UCLA) | | 2015-2016 | 10/28/15 | Where do we go from here? Historical Perspectives on a Nuclear Middle East and the Aftermath of the Iran Nuclear Deal | Iranian Nuclear Deal,Israel, America | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Center for Middle East Development, Hillel at UCLA, UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Israel Air Force Center Foundation, The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations |
| Aomar Boum (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Book Seminar | 2015-2016 | 10/27/15 | Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco | Morocco, History, Islam, Zionism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Anthropology, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | | 2015-2016 | 10/19/15 | Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria | Mzabi (Saharan) Jews, post-colonial era | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Department of History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies |
| Gary Rendsburg (Rutgers University) | | 2015-2016 | 10/15/15 | Scroll Down: Classical Jewish Texts, from Parchment to Internet | History, Literature | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Open House | 2015-2016 | 10/13/15 | Open House | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| International Workshop on the Digital Geniza | 2014-2015 | 12/07-08/2014 | Languages of Everyday Writing in the Medieval Islamic World: History, Methodology, Digital Prospects | Workshop | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Jason Lustig (UCLA), Anat Mooreville (UCLA), Taly Ravid (UCLA) | Joy and Jerry Monkrash Grauduate Conference in Jewish Studies | 2014-2015 | 03/08-09/2015 | Thinking Beyond the Canon: New Themes and Approaches in Jewish Studies | Modern Jewish, Jewish History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of English |
| 4th Annual ucLADINO Symposium | 2014-2015 | 03/03-04/2015 | Documenting Judeo-Spanish | Judeo-Spanish | ucLADINO | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado in Program in Sephardic Studies |
| David N. Myers (UCLA) | | 2014-2015 | 5/19/15 | The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History | Literature, Spanish Jewry | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Judith Thissen (Utrecht University) | Ross Seminar In Yiddish Studies | 2014-2015 | 5/12/15 | Kol Nidre on Broadway: New Perspectives on the Success of the Jazz Singer | Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Mark Kligman (UCLA) | The Annual Natfulin Lecture in Jewish Identity | 2014-2015 | 5/7/15 | Music and identity: The Musical Lives of Shlomo Carlebach and Mickey Katz | Music, European Jewish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, The UCLA Department of Musicology, The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology |
| Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary) | The Natalie Limonick Conference on Jewish Civilization | 2014-2015 | 5/4/15 | Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: A Conference in Honor of Abraham Joshua Heschel | Poetry, Civil Rights Movement, Martin luther King Jr. | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Natalie Limonick Program on Jewish Civilization in Memory of Miriam Nisell Rose | The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, Ralph K. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA |
| Emily J. Levine (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) | The Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies | 2014-2015 | 4/30/15 | Capital, Culture, and the City: German Jews and the Other Weimar | German-Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Art History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Emily J. Levine (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) | The Say and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies | 2014-2015 | 4/30/15 | Capital, Culture, and the City: German Jews and the Other Weimar | German-Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Art History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Philip Schultz (DePaul University) | The 1939 Society Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2014-2015 | 4/23/15 | The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse | Holocaust, German-Occupied Poland, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of English |
| Julia Philips Cohen (Vanderbilt), Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA) | Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies/Book Launch | 2014-2015 | 4/21/15 | Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 | Sephardic, Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Italian, The UCLA Center for European & Eurasian Studies, The UCLA Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese |
| Wendy Lower (Claremont) | The 1939 Society Distinguished Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2014-2015 | 3/12/15 | Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields | World War II, Holocaust, German Women, literature, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of Sociology |
| Benjamin Sommer (JTS) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2014-2015 | 3/2/15 | Deuteronomy as Scripture and Deuteronomy as Tradition | Biblical Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | | 2014-2015 | 2/25/15 | Folksongs of Modernity: A Judeo-Spanish Perspective | Judeo-Spanish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music |
| Oren Kosansky (Lewis & Clark University) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sepharidc Studies | 2014-2015 | 2/24/15 | When Jews Speaks Arabic: Jewish Languages in Colonial Mexico | Language, Moroccan Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) | | 2014-2015 | 2/23/15 | People of the Book or People of the (Foot) Ball? Ethnicizing European and Latin American Soccer | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Carol Bakhos (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2014-2015 | 2/19/15 | Interpreting the Family of Abraham: Political Uses and Abuses | Abrahamic Religions and Interpretations | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Rabbi David Wolpe (Sinai Temple) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Studies | 2014-2015 | 2/17/15 | David's Divided Heart | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Alan Mintz (JTS) | Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2014-2015 | 2/12/15 | The Late Agnon and the Re-Imagining of Galician Jewry | Galician Jewry | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature |
| Carol Meyers (Duke) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2014-2015 | 2/10/15 | Was Ancient Israel a Patriarchal Society? | Ancient Israel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| A Dybbuk | 2014-2015 | 2/8/15 | | Film | California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Languages, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Kathy Wazana (Film Director) | Screening | 2014-2015 | 2/4/15 | They Were Promised the Sea | Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Department of History |
| Fabrizio Lelli (University of Salento, Italy) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2014-2015 | 1/28/15 | Jewish Refugees in Apulia | Mediterranean Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Italian |
| Ronald Hendel (UC Berkeley) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Studies | 2014-2015 | 1/26/15 | The Book of Genesis in the Western Imagination | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| | 2014-2015 | 1/21/15 | Jewish Life in Germany Today | Exhibition | UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Ari Babaknia (Author) | The 1939 Society Seminar in Holocaust Studies | 2014-2015 | 1/13/15 | The Holocaust in Farsi | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Marina Rustow (Johns Hopkins University) | | 2014-2015 | 12/10/14 | Jews and Sovereign Political Power in the Middle Ages: New Evidence from the Cairo Geniza | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Laura Rosenzweig, Caroline Luce | | 2014-2015 | 11/25/14 | It Did Happen Here: Anti-Nazi Activism in Los Angeles | Los Angeles Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywinsk (Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum) | | 2014-2015 | 11/20/14 | For the Good of Tomorrow, Preserve Yesterday | Memorial Museum | UCLA Hillel, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Todd Presner (UCLA), David Shepard (UCLA), Yoh Kowano (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series: Book Launch | 2014-2015 | 11/19/14 | HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities | Jewish Berlin | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Digital Humanities Program, UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education, UCLA Library, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Anat Gilboa (UCLA) | | 2014-2015 | 11/16/14 | Transforming 20th Century Ashkenazic Culture into 21st Century Idioms: Israeli Art-An Intake on the Work of Marc Chagall | Israeli Art | California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Liana Finck (Author) | Ross Book Talk in Yiddish Studies Series | 2014-2015 | 11/13/14 | A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York | Literature and Language | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Ella Shohat (NYU) | | 2014-2015 | 11/3/14 | The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Itineraries of Belonging | Judeo-Arabic, Language and Culture | The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Yuval Sinai (Bar-Ilan University/Yale) | | 2014-2015 | 10/27/14 | Jewish Law in the Modern State of Israel | Judaism, Israel | UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Hillel Art Openings | 2014-2015 | 10/23/14 | It Started in Sighet | Exhibition | UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Susan Slyomovics (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2014-2015 | 10/23/14 | How to Accept German Reparations | German Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Anthropology's "Culture, Power, Social Change" Group |
| Olga Borovaya (Stanford) | Maurice Amado Sephardic Studies Series | 2014-2015 | 10/14/14 | Ladino's Controversial History | Sephardic Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies |
| Center for Jewish Studies Open House | 2014-2015 | 10/7/14 | Open House | Open House | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Gina Cholick | Opening Reception for A Special Photographic Exhibition | 2013-2104 | 4/24/14 | The Future of Memory: The Next Generation | Exhbit | Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA HIllel, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Doretta & Jona Goldrich Family Foundation | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Symposium | 2013-2014 | 03/05-06/2014 | Judeo-Spanish Revitalization | Symposium | ucLADINO | The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Center for Student Programming, UCLA Graduate Student Association, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies |
| Yaakov Dweck (Princeton) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2013-2014 | 02/26/20214 | The Messiah, the Crowd, and the Critic | Sephardic Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Symposium | 2013-2014 | 12/5/14 | Jewish Life in Azerbaijan | Symposium | UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Department of Religion, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Paul Jaskot (DePaul University) | The "1939" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2013-2014 | 5/29/14 | Mapping the Vernacular Architecture at Aushwitz: The Intersection of Culture and Genocide in the SS Ambitions for the East | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department. of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History |
| Andreas Kilcher (ETH Zurich/Stanford) | Ross Seminar in Yiddish Studies | 2013-2014 | 5/27/14 | Before the Law: Literature and Law according to Kafka | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages | |
| Michael Satlow (Brown University) | | 2013-2014 | 5/21/14 | How the Bible Became Holy | Bible | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce) | Viterbi Scholar in Residence | 2013-2014 | 5/21/14 | Scholarly Families of Sephardic Origin in Early Renaissance Italy | Workshop #3 | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce) | Viterbi Scholar in Residence | 2013-2014 | 5/20/14 | Scholarly Families of Sephardic Origin in Early Renaissance Italy | Workshop #2 | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Lia Brozgal (UCLA) | | 2013-2014 | 5/15/14 | Against Autobiography: Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory | Book Launch | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies |
| Fabrizio Lelli (University of Lecce) | Viterbi Scholar in Residence | 2013-2014 | 5/13/14 | Scholarly Families of Sephardic Origin in Early Renaissance Italy | Workshop #1 | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| David M. Stern (Penn) | | 2013-2014 | 5/8/14 | The Monk's Haggadah: The Story of a Remarkable 15th C. Illustrated Passover Haggadah from the Monastery of St. Quirinus at Tegernsee (Germany) and its Modern Discovery | General Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Hillel at UCLA |
| Kathryn Hellerstein (Penn) | Ross Seminar Series in Yiddish Studies | 2013-2014 | 5/7/14 | Yiddish Chinoiserie: China in Modernist Yiddish Culture | Yiddish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Julia Philips Cohen (Vanderbilt) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies/ Book Launch | 2013-2014 | 5/6/14 | Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi in Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era | Sephardic Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Rabbi Ruth Sohn | | 2013-2014 | 5/5/14 | Crossing Cairo: A Jewish Woman's Encounter with Egypt | Book | | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Paul Ryan | Opening Reception for A Special Photographic Exhibition | 2013-2014 | 4/24/14 | The Future of Memory: The Next Generation | Exhibit | Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA HIllel, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Doretta & Jona Goldrich Family Foundation | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Sarah Benor (Hebrew Union College) | Annual Naftulin Lecture in Jewish Identity | 2013-2014 | 4/10/14 | Learning the Lingo: Language and Identity Among Newly Orthodox Jews | Orthodox Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Maureen Jackson (Carleton College), Munir Beken (UCLA) | Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies | 2013-2014 | 4/3/14 | Mixing Musics: Istanbul Jews and Their Sacred Songs | Jewish Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music |
| Joy Calico (Vanderbilt) | Sady & Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies | 2013-2014 | 3/12/14 | Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe | Warsaw | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA, Goethe-Institut Los Angeles |
| Carlotta Ferrara Degli Uberti | | 2013-2014 | 3/11/14 | Civil Marriage and Religious Laws: Italian Jews After 1866 | Italian Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Sarah Aroeste | | 2013-2014 | 3/5/14 | Los Angeles Sephardic Music Festival: Sarah Aroeste | Concert | Fowler Museum, Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Herb Alpert School of Music |
| Anat Gilboa (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2013-2014 | 3/4/14 | Imagining the Unimaginable: The Holocaust and its Legacy in Israeli Visual Culture | Israeli Culture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Isarel Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Daniel E. Fleming (NYU) | Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2013-2014 | 2/25/14 | The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Gadi Lehavi | | 2013-2014 | 2/24/14 | Gadi Lehavi and Friends | Concert | UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, The Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles | Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz Performance at UCLA, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Dept of Ethnomusicology, Jazz Studies, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, United Synagogue Youth |
| Michael Berkowitz (University College London) | Annual Vienna in Los Angeles Seminar Series | 2013-2014 | 2/20/14 | Alternative Vectors of Insight from Vienna: Jews and Photography | Jews and Photgraphy | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Austrian Consulate General, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Jacob Wright (Emory) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2013-2014 | 2/13/14 | King David and the Politics of War Commemoration | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Tamara Cohn Eskenazi (HUC-JIR) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2013-2014 | 2/4/14 | Out from the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Persian Period (6th-4th Century BCE) | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for the Study of Women, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Yona Sabar (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2013-2014 | 1/28/14 | A New Hebrew "Israeli" Translation of the Bible? Is it Necessary? Is it Advisable? | Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| David C. Jacobson (Brown) | The Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2013-2014 | 1/15/14 | The Rediscovery of Repressed Past: Legends of Talmudic Rabbis as a Source of Cultural Renewal in Contemporary Israel | Bible Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies with support from Milt & Sheila Hyman | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies |
| Premiere Screening of a Documentary by the Wende Museum | 2013-2014 | 12/15/13 | Soviet Jews in the City of Angels: An Oral History | Screening | Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic | |
| Tali Tadmor (Cal Arts) | Ross Yiddish Lecture Series | 2013-2014 | 12/8/13 | Yiddish Star Tour and "Ella Fitzgeraldberg" Concert | Yiddish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Yiddishkayt |
| | 2013-2014 | 12/8/13 | Listening to the Other: Mideast Musical Dialogues | Concert | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA, The UCLA Robert U. Nelson Fund | Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Muslims for Progressive Values, Limmud LA, reGeneration Education, Center for the Art of Performances at UCLA, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Hillel at UCLA |
| Guri Schwarz (Italian Rabbinical College) | The Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2013-2014 | 12/3/13 | Anti-Zionism, Radicial Politics and Terrorism in Italy 1967-1982 | Mediterranean Jewish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Italian |
| Bo Larsson (Lund University, Sweden) | | 2013-2014 | 11/21/13 | Urban Planning and the Treatment of Vanished Populations Groups: The Case of Three East European Cities | History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Urban Planning, The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, The UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, The UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literature |
| Bo Larsson (Lund University, Sweden) | The 1939 Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2013-2014 | 11/20/13 | Preserving Jewish Memories and Heritage in the Urban Environment of Three Cities by the Holocaust and Forced Migrations | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Urban Planning, The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, The UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies |
| Film Screening with Q&A | 2013-2014 | 11/19/13 | Crime after Crime: The Battle to Free Deborah Peagler | Film | Hillel at UCLA | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Dr. Emil Draitser (Hunter College, City University of New York) | | 2013-2014 | 11/14/13 | Laughing All The Way to Freedom: Social Functions of Jewish Humor of Modern-Day Exodus | Literature | The UCLA Center for Europe and Eurasian Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Hillel of UCLA Distinguished Lecture Series | 2013-2014 | 11/14/13 | Lithuanism Jewry 1918-1940: From National Autonomy to Near Destruction | Literature | Hillel at UCLA | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Michael Morgan (Indiana) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2013-2014 | 11/7/13 | Tears the Civil Servant Cannot See: Emmanuel Levinas on Ethics, Politics, and Zionism | History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Philosophy, UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies |
| | 2013-2014 | 11/3/13 | Inspiring Stories of Jewish Shanghai Refugees A workshop for Educators | Workshop | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, Hillel at UCLA | UCLA Confucius Institute, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Library, Facing History and Ourselves |
| Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University) | Ross Seminar Series in Yiddish Studies | 2013-2014 | 10/24/13 | Education and Initiation in the Novels of the Yiddish Haskole and Islamic Negritude | Yiddish Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Open House | 2013-2014 | 10/16/13 | The Center for Jewish Studies 20th Anniversary Celebration | | | |
| Etgar Keret | | 2013-2014 | 10/1/13 | Is Reality Overrated? A Talk & Reading with Israeli Writer Etgar Kerel | Language and Literature | UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Exhibition Opening Celebration | 2013-2013 | 10/27/13 | Jewish Refugees in Shanghai (1933-1941) | Exhibition | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, Hillel at UCLA | UCLA Confucius Institute, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Library, Facing History and Ourselves |
| Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA) | An Internatinational Conference | 2012-2013 | 03/18-19/2013 | Jacob and Susan Taubes and Their Circles | World War 2 | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, Zentrum fur Literatur-und Kulturforschung | |
| Jewlia Eisenberg | The Natalie Limonick Program on Jewish Civilization | 2012-2013 | 6/4/13 | The Ginzburg Geography Project | Performance | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA | |
| Ben Shephard (Oxford) | The "1993" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2012-2013 | 5/30/13 | From the Camp to the Chair: The Holocaust and Psychiatry | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The 1993 Club | The UCLA Department of History |
| Giovanni Contini Bonacossi (Scholar) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2012-2013 | 5/23/13 | Memories of the Tuscan Survivors of the Shoah: From the Oral Archive of Andrea Devoto | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Italian |
| Exhbition Opening | 2012-2013 | 5/19/13 | Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic | Exhbition | Autry National Center, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Historical Society of Southern California | |
| Samuel Spinner (UCLA) | Ross Seminar in Yiddish Studies | 2012-2013 | 4/25/13 | Sites of Preservation, Indices of Destruction: The First Holocaust Museums in Yiddish and German-Jewish Literature | Yiddish Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA | The UCLA Department of History |
| Xu Xin (Nanjing University) | | 2012-2013 | 4/16/13 | Chinese Attitudes Towards Jews and Judaism | | The UCLA Department of History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2012-2013 | 4/9/13 | New Babylonians: The Farhud and Iraqi Jewry | Iraqi Jew | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Department of History |
| Marina Caffiero (University of Rome La Sapienza) and Serena Di Nepi (University of Rome La Sapienza) | UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2012-2013 | 4/8/13 | Beyond the Historiographical Ghetto: New Perspectives on the History of the Jews of Italy | Italian Jews Italy | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Department of Italian |
| Mary Gordon (Barnard College) | | 2012-2013 | 4/4/13 | Simone Weil's Anti-Semitism | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Amir Eshel (Stanford) | The Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2012-2013 | 3/7/13 | FUTURITY: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and the Quest for the Past | Band | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies with support from Milt & Sheila Hyman | |
| J. Edward Wright (University of Arizona) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 3/5/13 | Ascending to Heaven: Yesterday and Today | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 2/27/13 | Deleuze, Spinoza, and Scholastic Thought | Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory |
| Joel Baden (Yale) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 2/26/13 | Layers and Unities in Biblical Text | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Daniel Horowitz (Author) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 2/21/13 | Think Yiddish, Dress British: Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the Ivy League Style at Yale in the 1950s | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Michael Berkowitz (University College London) | | 2012-2013 | 2/13/13 | Re-Visiting "The Ringworm Affair" X-Rays and the Jewish Question in Early Israel | | UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of History |
| Dalia Kandiyoti (College of Staten Island) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2012-2013 | 2/11/13 | Conversion and Convergence: Transcontinental Latina/o Sephardic/Muslim Narratives | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, UCLA Department of History |
| Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) | Inaguarl Seminar on Vienna in Los Angeles | 2012-2013 | 2/4/13 | Vienna's Jewish Geography: Beyond the Leopoldstadt | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, The UCLA Department of History |
| Tammi J. Schneider (Claremont Graduate University) | Buble and Its Interprerters Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 1/31/13 | Women in the Bible: Now That We Are Out of the Garden, Where Do We Go? | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures |
| Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) | Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies | 2012-2013 | 1/29/13 | Why this New Fascination? Islam in the Modern Jewish Imagination | Islam | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Department of History |
| Daniel Itzkovitz (Stonehill College) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 1/24/13 | Birthright Vegas: Wandering the Desert in Search of Jewishness | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| | 2012-2013 | 1/17/13 | Forbidden Art: A Symposium and Exhibtion on Camp Art from the Collections of the Aushwitz Memorial | Symposium & Exhbition | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The 1939 Club | Consulate General in Los Angeles, German Consulate General in Los Angeles, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, Hillel at UCLA, The UCLA Department of History, Exhibition: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and the Polish Mission |
| Daniel Green (Newberry Library, Chicago) | Naftulin Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2012-2013 | 12/6/12 | The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Library, The UCLA Department of History |
| Dr. Karen Wilson (UCLA) | | 2012-2013 | 12/5/12 | Mapping Jewish LA | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Library |
| Saba Soomekh (Loyola Marymount University) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 11/29/12 | From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women | Ethnographic Portrait | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Department of Sociology |
| Jennifer Glaser (U of Cincinnati) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 11/27/12 | The Color of Marriage: Jews, Race, and Intermarriage in America | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA Dept of English |
| Lihong Song (Nanjing University) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 11/15/12 | Chinese and Western Perspectives on the Jewish Community of Kaifeng: Towards a Fusion of Horizons | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Confucius Institute, The UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Culture, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA East Asian Library |
| Lihong Song (Nanjing University) | faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 11/14/12 | Jewish Studies in China: The New Frontier | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Confucius Institute, The UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Culture, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA East Asian Library |
| Film Screening | 2012-2013 | 11/8/12 | Bulgaria and the Holocaust: The Fragility of Goodness | Film Screening | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The 1939 Club, Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | Bulgarian Jeiwsh Heritage Allegiance pf America, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music |
| Steven Zipperstein (Stanford) | faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2012-2013 | 10/30/12 | Kishinev's Pogrom in Mythology and History: The Transmutation of the 1903 Riot in Hebrew Poetry, Jewish Politics, and the Protocols of the Elders in Zion | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, The UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures |
| Soraya Nazarian, Shelley Gazin, Jessica Shokrian, Krista Nassi, Tess Halavy | | 2012-2013 | 10/25/12 | What Remains: The Iranian Jewish Experience in LA | Satelite Show | Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Iranian Jewish Women's Organization, Janis and Avi Rojany |
| Fay Garajower (Artist) | An Exhibit Opening | 2012-2013 | 10/25/12 | Where the Past Meets the Future: The Art of Fay Growjer | Exhibit | Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Gil Cohen-Magen (Photographer) | | 2012-2013 | 10/24/12 | Hasidic Courts: A Talk with Photographer Gil Cohen-Magen | | UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| A Colloquim | 2012-2013 | 10/22/12 | Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World | Colloquim | UCLA Center for the Study of Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Classics |
| Exhibition Opening Celebration | 2012-2013 | 10/21/12 | Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews | Exhibition Opening Celebration | UCLA Fowler Museum | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto) | | 2012-2013 | 10/17/12 | After Secularization: Configurations of the Post-Secular in Goether, Heine, and Spinioza | | The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| John Connelly (UC Berkeley) | | 2012-2013 | 10/11/12 | From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 | | UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Matthias B. Lehmann (UC Irvine) | Maurice Amado Seminar Sephardic Studies | 2012-2013 | 10/10/12 | Sephardic Philanthropy and the Origins of a Modern Jewish Nation | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies |
| Open House | 2012-2013 | 10/3/12 | Jewish Studies Open House | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Susan Slyomovics (UCLA) & Sarah A. Stein (UCLA) | Conference | 2011-2012 | 10/23-24/2011 | New Approaches to Algerian Jewish Studies | Conference | UCLA G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, UCLA International Institute |
| Maryann M. Shenoda (UCLA) | Colloquim | 2011-2012 | 10/2-3/2011 | Non-Muslim Communities in Fatimid Egypt: The Dhimmi Experience, Islamization, and Negotiating Power | | The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Center for Medieveal and Renaissance Studies, UCLA Andrew Mellon Fund, Humanities Division, The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Mauirce Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, UCLA Graduate Division |
| Todd S. Presner (UCLA), Claudio Fogu (UCSB), Wulf Kansteiner (SUNY, Binghamton) | | 2011-2012 | 04/22-23/2012 | History Unlimited: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture | Conference | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UC Humanities Research Institute, The "1939" Club | The UCLA Department of History |
| Maurice Samuels (Yale) | | 2011-2012 | 03/6-7/2012 | | | UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Program "Cultures in Transnational Perspective", The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Carol Bakhos (UCLA), Jack Wertheimer (JTS) | | 2011-2012 | 02/12-13/2012 | Looking for Judaism in [Un]conventional Places | Conference | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion IDP |
| Cecile E. Kuznitz (Bard) | Ross Lecture in Yiddish Studies | 2011-2012 | 5/30/12 | YIVO and the Making of Modern Yiddish Scholarship | Yiddish | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Symposium | 2011-2012 | 5/20/12 | Beyond Alliances: The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California | Symposium | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts of UCLA Hillel | |
| Robert Cohen (Middlebury) | Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identitiy | 2011-2012 | 5/2/12 | Living, Loving, Temple-Going: A Jewish American Writer Wrestles with his Hyphen | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Andrew Berns (UPenn/UCLA) | Viterbi Seminar in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2011-2012 | 4/25/12 | "Impossible to Deny": Terrestrial Paradise and Jewish Thought of the Italian Renaissance | Renaissance Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA Study of Religion Program, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
| Exhibition | 2011-2012 | 4/18/12 | Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography of Jewish Partisan Faye Shulman | Exhibit Opening | Dortort Center for Creatviity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The "1939" Club |
| Deborah Achtenberg (University of Nevada, Reno) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2011-2012 | 4/18/12 | Derrida between Moses and Elijah | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory |
| Na'ama Rokem (University of Chicago) | The Arnold Band Distinguishede Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2011-2012 | 3/15/12 | Yehuda Amichai and Paul Celan: An Encounter Between German and Hebrew | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Walter Arlen (Composer & Music Critic), Neal Stulberg (UCLA) | Natalie Limonick Symposium on Jewish Civilization | 2011-2012 | 3/12/12 | Walter Arlen: A Life in Music | Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Music, Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA, |
| Marci Shore (Yale) | | 2011-2012 | 3/8/12 | The Taste of Ashes: Hauntedness after Communism in Eastern Europe | | UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Timothy Snyder (Yale) | The "1939" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2011-2012 | 3/5/12 | Bloodlands: The Holocaust as European History | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The "1939" Club | The UCLA Department of History, The UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages. UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies |
| David Vanderhooft (Boston College) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2011-2012 | 3/1/12 | Interpreting the Prophetic Tradition: The Book of Habakkuk | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA Study of Religion Program | |
| Ra'anan Boustan (UCLA), David N. Myers (UCLA), Scott Young (UCLA) | The Mae and Morris Gelb Forum | 2011-2012 | 2/26/12 | Does Religion Serve the Public Good? A Forum on Faith, Justice, and the Academy | Forum | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, University Religious Conference at UCLA, Myers-Gelb Families | |
| David N. Myers (UCLA), Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA), Aron Rodrigue (Stanford), Sarah A. Stein (UCLA) | Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies | 2011-2012 | 2/22/12 | A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of A'adi Besalel A-Levi | Book Launch | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History |
| Ishay Rosen Zvi (Tel Aviv University) | | 2011-2012 | 2/21/12 | The Birth of the "Goy" in Rabbinic Literature | | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Irvin Ungar (Curator) | A Sympsoium and Exhibition | 2011-2012 | 2/9/12 | Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk | Exhibit | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel, The "1939" Club | |
| Mark Leuchter (Temple University) | Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series | 2011-2012 | 2/7/12 | The Lost Tribes of Israel: History, Myth and Misperception | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The UCLA Study of Religion and Program, The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Anthony Grafton (Princeton) and David B. Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania) | Viterbi Lectures in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2011-2012 | 2/2/12 | Cross-Cultural Dialogues in Early Modern Europe: A Textual Seminar | Seminar | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of History, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies |
| Eric Rentschler (Harvard) | Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies | 2011-2012 | 1/19/12 | Haunted by Hitler: A Fascination Revisited | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Germanic Languages |
| Giulia Sissa (UCLA), Todd Presner (UCLA) | Symposium | 2011-2012 | 11/17/11 | Italy Made! Passions and Projects | Symposium | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Italian Institute of Human Sciences, (SUM and Fondazione SUM) Italian Culturual Institute in Los Angeles, Network of Italian Scholars Abroad (NISA), The UCLA Department of Italian, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | |
| Marc Hirshman (Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2011-2012 | 11/15/11 | Law and the Origins of Education | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Study of Religion Program |
| Neil W. Netanel (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2011-2012 | 11/10/11 | From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright since the Birth of Print | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | UCLA School of Law |
| Screening | 2011-2012 | 11/9/11 | Screening of Between Two Worlds | Screening | Hillel at UCLA | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of History |
| Alan Rosen (Yad Vashem) | "1939" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2011-2012 | 11/3/11 | Killing Time, Saving Time: Calendars and the Holocaust | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The "1939" Club | |
| Shelley Salamensky (UCLA) | CEES Faculty Lecture Series | 2011-2012 | 11/3/11 | Jewish Culture without Jews? Public Memory and 'Diaspora Disneys' in East-Central Europe, Eurasia, and Spain | Lecture | UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Michael Cohen (Photographer) | Exhibit | 2011-2012 | 10/26/11 | Orthodox in Israel | An Exhbit Opening | Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Zev Garber (Los Angeles Valley College) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2011-2012 | 10/10/11 | That Jesus Cover | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Open House | 2011-2012 | 10/4/11 | Jewish Studies Open House | Open House | | |
| The CMRS Ahmanson Conference | 2010-2011 | 11/18-19/2010 | Leone Ebreo and His Times | Conference | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | UCLA Vice Chancellor of Research, the Humanities Division of the UCLA College of L&S, and The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Maurice Amado Workshop in Sephardic Studies | 2010-2011 | 04/04-05/2011 | Crossing Borders: New Approaches to Modern Judeo-Spanish (Sephardic) Cultures | Workshop | | |
| David N. Myers (UCLA), Arieh Saposnik (UCLA) | An International Symposium | 2010-2011 | 01/30-31/2011 | Rethinking the History of Jewish Nationalism | Symposium | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies |
| Susan Miller (UC Davis) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2010-2011 | 5/24/11 | Between Memory and Extinction: The Moroccan Jewish Quarter in the Twentieth Century | Sephardic Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Carol Bakhos (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 5/19/11 | What’s Abrahamic about Judaism, Christianity and Islam? | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Francesco Spagnolo (UC Berkeley) | Viterbi Lectures in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2010-2011 | 5/17/11 | Italian Synagogue Music and the Politics of (Ritual) Identity | Literature/Musical | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | |
| Bruce Philips (Hebrew Union College), Karen Wilson (UCLA) | A Symposium | 2010-2011 | 5/15/11 | Los Angeles Jews of Yesterday and Today | Symposium | | USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LIfe and the Autry National Center |
| Aomar Boum (University of Arizona) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2010-2011 | 5/12/11 | Pledging Water: Qais, Jews and Water Ownership in Southern Moroccan Oasis | Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Nahid Pirnazar (UCLA) | | 2010-2011 | 4/28/11 | Zionism in Iran: A Historical Perspective | | UCLA Program in Iranian Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Poopa Dweck (Author) | Series on 'Jews and Food' | 2010-2011 | 4/14/11 | Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews | Sephardic Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies and the UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | |
| Ghislane Lydon (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 4/12/11 | Partners in Profit: The Legal and Practical Implications of Muslim-Jewish Collaborations in Trans-Saharan Trade | History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Joelle Bahloul (Indiana University) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2010-2011 | 3/10/11 | Narrating Migration around the Table: The Frenchification of North African Jewish Palates | North African Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies |
| Joshua Schreier (Vassar College) | Book Discussion | 2010-2011 | 3/8/11 | Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria (Jewish Cultures of the World) | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies | |
| Jonathan P. Decter (Brandeis University) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2010-2011 | 2/28/11 | Representing Jewish Legitimacy in the Medieval Mediterranean | Medieval Mediterranean | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Ayala Fader (Fordham University) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 2/24/11 | What do Middle-Aged Orthodox Jewish Women Want? Self-help Audiocassettes, Language, and Ethics | Literature and Language | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Joy & Jerry Monkrash Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Yair Lorberbaum (Bar Ilan University) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 2/17/11 | Two Concepts of 'The Decree of the Scripture' (Gezerat Ha-Katuv): A Chapter in Maimonides' Philosophy of Law and Halakah | Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Joy & Jerry Monkrash Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Gil Atzmon (Yeshiva University) | | 2010-2011 | 2/15/11 | Jews and Genes: The Jewish Genome in the Genomic Era | Lecture | | UCLA Center for Society and Genetics |
| Mimi Sheraton (Author, Food Critic) | Series on 'Jews and Food' | 2010-2011 | 2/10/11 | Not by Bialys Alone: Iconic Foods of Ashkenazic Jews | Culture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, and the UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | |
| Avinoam J. Patt (University of Hartford) | 1939 Club Seminar in Holocaust Studies | 2010-2011 | 2/7/11 | From Destruction to Rebirth: The Holocaust and the Creation of the State of Israel, a Reassessment | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Ari Y. Kelman (UC Davis) | Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2010-2011 | 1/27/11 | The Politics of Sentimentality: On Fiddler, Film, Photography, and Philanthropy | Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| David M. Stern (University of Pennsylvania) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 1/24/11 | Reading the Whole Jewish Book: Some Methodological Reflections | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Annie Cohen-Solal (NYU) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2010-2011 | 1/20/11 | Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli | History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 1/18/11 | Jewish Apostasy from Paul to Simone Weil | Literature/History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA, and The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Arthur Green (Hebrew College, Boston) | | 2010-2011 | 1/13/11 | TBA | | | |
| Chana Bloch (Poet/Scholar), Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley) | | 2010-2011 | 1/11/11 | The Poetics and Politics of Translation on 'Hovering at a Low Altitude': The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch | Literature/Poetry | Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Alan Mintz (Jewish Theological Seminary) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 1/10/11 | To the End of the Land | Seminar | Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| | 2010-2011 | 1/9/11 | Celebrating Sutzkever | Poetry | | Sigi Ziering Institute-Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at American Jewish University, The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Marilyn Ziering, Lou Colen, and Leonard Nimoy |
| Vincent Brook (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 12/2/10 | Driven to Darkness: Jewish Émigré Directors and the Rise of Film Noir | Film, German Jewish | Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Lev Hakak (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 11/30/10 | Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735-1950 | Modern Hebrew, Literature | Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Moshe Idel (Hebrew University), Fabrizio Lelli (University of Salento) | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2010-2011 | 11/17/10 | Kabbalah in Italy: Past and Present | Medieval, History | | The UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies |
| Susan Derwin (UC Santa Barbara) | 1939 Club Seminar in Holocaust Studies | 2010-2011 | 11/15/10 | Imre Kertesz's Art of Healing | Literature | NEH Jewish Civilization Endowment | |
| Albert Baumgarten (Bar Ilan University) | | 2010-2011 | 11/10/10 | Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews, A Twentieth Century Tale | History, Culture | NEH Jewish Civilization Endowment | The UCLA Center for Study of Religion |
| Renata Stih (Artist), Frieder Schnock (Artist) | | 2010-2011 | 11/9/10 | Artists at Work: The New Berlin | | | Goethe-Institute Los Angeles, the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, and Villa Aurora |
| Shulamit Volkov (Tel Aviv University) | Inaugral Sady and Ludwig Kahn Lecture in German Jewish Studies | 2010-2011 | 11/8/10 | Walther Rathenau: The Dangers of Race Theory | German Jewish | | |
| David Engel (NYU) | The Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies and the 1939 Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2010-2011 | 11/4/10 | A Moment in Time: Understanding the Holocaust in the Context of Jewish History | Holocaust | Sheila & Milton Hyman and The ''1939'' Club | |
| Yona Sabar (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar Series | 2010-2011 | 10/28/10 | From 'Death' to 'Beauty': Fascinating Etymologies of Hebrew Words | Language | Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the Michael & Irene Ross Fund | |
| Jonathan Gold (Food Critic, LA Weekly) | Series on 'Jews and Food' | 2010-2011 | 10/21/10 | Counter Intelligence: Searching out the Real Los Angeles | | The UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Spehardic Studies and the UCLA Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | |
| Marc Baer (UC Irvine) | | 2010-2011 | 10/18/10 | Sexual Politics and Legal Culture in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire | Culture | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Anna Sapir Abulafia (University of Cambridge) | Viterbi Seminar in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2010-2011 | 10/12/10 | Who Serves Whom in Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations? | Medieval Jewish | | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies, The UCLA Department of History, and The UCLA Department for Spanish & Portuguese |
| David Abulafia (Cambridge University) | | 2010-2011 | 10/11/10 | Writing the History of the Mediterranean | Mediterranean | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| | 2010-2011 | 10/5/10 | Jewish Studies Open House | Open House | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Tzvi Abasch (Brandon University) | Faculty/student Seminar | 2009-2010 | TBA | The Biblical Account of Origins: Its Meaning and Composition | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The NEH Jewish Civilization Endowment | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| | 2009-2010 | 10/25-26/2009 | The Myth of Silence? Who Spoke about the Holocaust and when | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture and the “1939” Club | |
| | 2009-2010 | 04/07-08/2010 | Recovered Voices: Staging Suppressed Opera of the Early 20th Centurty | Opera, Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The OREL Foundation, the “1939” Club, and the Natalie Limonick Endowment in Jewish Civilization | |
| | 2009-2010 | 03/14-18/2010 | Los Angeles Jews of Yesterday and Today | Los Angeles Jews, American Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| | 2009-2010 | 02/07-08/2010 | Aesthetics After the Holocaust | Holocaust, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture and the “1939” Club | |
| Barbara Epstein (UCSC), Maurice Zeitlin (UCLA) | The "1939" Club Series in Holocaust Studies | 2009-2010 | 5/26/10 | The Minsk Ghetto during World War II: Resistance and inter-Ethnic Solidarity | Holocaust, World War II | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Sociology |
| Alex Jassen (University of Minnesota) | | 2009-2010 | 5/13/10 | The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Halakhah (Jewish Law) | Halakhah, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The Templeton Foundation, The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Seth Schwartz (Columbia University) | A Book Discussion | 2009-2010 | 5/11/10 | Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism | Mediterranean, Judaism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies |
| Aviva Ben-Ur (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2009-2010 | 5/6/10 | Commotion in the Colony: Being Black and Jewish in Surname | African American Jews | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College) | Series on the Bible through the Ages | 2009-2010 | 5/3/10 | Holy War in Judaism and Islam | Islam, Judaism, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Center for the Study Religion |
| James Kugel (Bar Ilan University) | Series on the Bible through the Ages | 2009-2010 | 4/29/10 | How to Read the Bible: Fact, Fiction, History? | Bible, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and Hillel at UCLA |
| Abigail Green (University of Oxford) | Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2009-2010 | 4/27/10 | Moses Montettare: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero | Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Aryeh Cohen (American Jewish University) | Faculty/ Student Seminar | 2009-2010 | 4/21/10 | The Gender of Shabbat | Tradition, Jewish Women | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Hillel at UCLA |
| Jewish Culture Salon In conjunction with the exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center | 2009-2010 | 4/14/10 | The Art of Jewish Illustration | Art | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The Skirball Cultural Center and the Charles E. Young Library, Department of Special Collections |
| Ted Merwin (Dickinson College) | | 2009-2010 | 3/16/10 | Homeland for the Jewish Soul: The Jewish Deli in America | American Jews, Diaspora | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | The Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2009-2010 | 3/10/10 | The Jews of Italy's Response to Challenge: Past, Present and Future | Italian Jews | | |
| Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth University) | | 2009-2010 | 3/8/10 | The Seder that would have been: Martin Luther King Jr. , Abraham Jashua Heschel and Passover | History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture and the Progressive Jewish Alliance |
| Frances Malino (Wellesley College) | Maurice Amada Seminar in Sephardic Studies | 2009-2010 | 3/3/10 | Jewish Sisters in Muslim Lands: The Teachers of the Alliance Israellite Universelle | Islam, Judaism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Herbert Davidson (UCLA) | Faculty/Student Seminar | 2009-2010 | 3/2/10 | Title TBA | | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Language & Culture |
| Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois) | | 2009-2010 | 3/1/10 | Multidirectional Memory and the Question of Justice | Lecture | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA Department of Comparative Literature | the UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American and World Culture and The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Aaron Hass (Cal State, Dominguez Hills) | | 2009-2010 | 2/23/10 | What Do We Really Know about the Holocaust? | Holocaust, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture and the “1939” Club | |
| Stephen Garfinkel (Jewish Theological Seminary) | Series on the Bible through the Ages | 2009-2010 | 2/18/10 | Prophet or God: The Role of Moses in the Hebrew Bible | Hebrew Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Michael Marrus (Massey College in the University of Toronto) | | 2009-2010 | 2/16/10 | Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution | Holocaust, History | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American and World Culture and the “1939” Club | |
| Rossella Pescatori (El Camino College) | | 2009-2010 | 2/10/10 | Roots of Kabbalah in the Renaissance: The Cases of Leone Ebreo and Francesco Zorzi | Jewish Mysticism | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Simha Goldin (Tel Aviv University) | | 2009-2010 | 2/9/10 | Means of Remembering and Commemoration in Medieval Jewish Communities: The Role of Liturgical Poetry and the Commentaries on it | Poetry, Literature | The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| David Biale (UC Davis) | | 2009-2010 | 2/4/10 | Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought | Traditions | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | |
| Josh Kun (USC) | The Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity | 2009-2010 | 2/1/10 | The Legacy of Able The Fishman: Unmasking the Archives of Jewish-American Music | Jewish-American Music | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | |
| Walid Saleh (University of Toronto) | Series on the Bible through the Ages | 2009-2010 | 1/28/10 | Islam and the Bible | Islam, Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion |
| Marianna Birnbaum (UCLA) | | 2009-2010 | 1/27/10 | The Fuggers, Hans Dernschwam, and Gracia Mendes | | the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies |
| Leora Batnitzky (Princeton) | Faculty/student Seminar | 2009-2010 | 1/26/10 | Jesus in Modern Jewish Thought | Christianity, Judaism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Center for the study of Religion |
| Joel Kaminsky (Smith College) | Series on the Bible through the Ages | 2009-2010 | 1/21/10 | Does God Play Favorites?: The Idea of the Chosen in the Hebrew Bible | Hebrew Bible | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, Hillel at UCLA |
| Peter Manseau (Author) | A Celebration of Jewish Book Month | 2009-2010 | 12/13/09 | Love, Lies and Poetry in Translation: A Lapsed Catholic Shares the Joys of Yiddish Literature | Yiddish, Literature | Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture |
| Paul Dry | Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies | 2009-2010 | 12/2/09 | The Parnas: A Scene from the Holocaust in Italy | Holocaust, Italy | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The “1939” Club, The UCLA Department of English, The UCLA Department of Italian |
| Lev Hakak (UCLA) | | 2009-2010 | 11/19/09 | Lecture and Film Screening of Amos Oz's "My Michael" | Film | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Laurel Leff (Northeastern University) | | 2009-2010 | 11/12/09 | "Well Worth Saving": How American Universities Selected Faculty Fleeing Nazi-Era Europe | Nazi-Europe, America | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture | |
| Symposium on the 150th Anniversary of Sholom Aleichem | 2009-2010 | 11/8/09 | Sholem Aleichem at 150: Celebrating the Yiddish Comic Master | Music, Opera | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture | |
| Saul Friedlander (UCLA) | The "1939" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies | 2009-2010 | 11/5/09 | Pius XII and the Holocaust: Some Further Reflections | Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture and the UCLA Department of History |
| Ariel Sabar (Author) | | 2009-2010 | 11/3/09 | Paradise Lost and Found | Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures and Hillel at UCLA |
| Shimon Redlich (Author) | | 2009-2010 | 10/28/09 | Autobiography in Context: Returning to the Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Years | Literature, Holocaust | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, The Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund and the UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture | |
| Richard Kalmin (Jewish Theological Seminary), Jason Mokhtarian (UCLA) | | 2009-2010 | 10/22/09 | The Talmud in its Iranian Setting | Iranian, History, Literature | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the NEH Jewish Civilization Endowment | The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures |
| Raymond P. Scheindlin (Jewish Theological Seminary) | Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies | 2009-2010 | 10/22/09 | Judah Halevi, Pilgrim and Poet | Poetry, Judaism | The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Sheila and Milton Hyman | |
| Jewish Studies Open House | 2009-2010 | 10/13/09 | Jewish Studies Open House | | Leve Center | |