Small Collection of Ladino Documents now on Display in YRL
Max Modiano Daniel and UCLA Library Special Collections has put together a small collection of Ladino documents held by UCLA Library and Special Collections, now on display on the A-level […]
New digital exhibition “Sarajevo to City of Angels: The Remarkable Story of Al and Rose Finci”
Like the City of Angels itself, the Sephardic community of Los Angeles is internally diverse, with immigrant roots that stretch across the Mediterranean and Middle East and into Europe, South […]
New Book: The Holocaust and North Africa
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory—Muslim as well as Jewish—in the […]
UCLA students learn history from Holocaust Survivors
UCLA’s freshman seminar, Fiat Lux, partners with student-run Bearing Witness program to bring holocaust survivors to UCLA At age 15, Ann Signett was surrounded by war. Every morning she would […]
#MeToo, Tunisia, 1937
BY LIA BROZGAL AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN | PUBLISHED FEB 14, 2018 The #MeToo movement has jump-started crucial conversations about sexual harassment and sexual violence in the contemporary world — and […]
Rabbi, who is UCLA Law visiting professor, receives inaugural Leve Award
UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish studies honored author and educator Rabbi Elliot Dorff with the organization’s inaugural Leve Award Oct. 24 in Royce Hall. Dorff, currently the rector of […]