The Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies is delighted to announce the 2024 Leve Award Recipient, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. The Leve Award is awarded biennially to recognize and celebrate individuals who have made a positive impact on the world, the Jewish community and our humanity. Please join us for an evening featuring Chancellor […]

For this year’s Al Finci Memorial Lecture two award-winning authors gather to discuss their writing and what drew them to Sephardic stories. Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika (Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2023), is a dazzling multi-generational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring themes of displacement, endurance, family, and home. Inspired by […]