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Screening of TORN (with Director Q&A to follow) MARCH 19th

Mar. 10, 2025—

Jewish Studies to host Dr. Anna Duensing, March 26th

Jan. 24, 2025—Anna Duensing explores how a wide variety of Black Americans, including civil rights and labor organizers, journalists, artists, musicians, soldiers, and veterans, responded to Nazi Germany’s persecution, deportation, and later, mass murder, of European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. Her talk will pay particular attention to the immediate postwar moment and the intersection of...

Jewish Studies Essay Contest 2025

Jan. 24, 2025—

Jewish Identity in Contemporary Morocco: Memory, Reconciliation, and Citizenship

Jan. 24, 2025—Jewish Identity in Contemporary Morocco: Memory, Reconciliation, and Citizenship Tuesday, October 15th 123 Buttrick Noon to 1:30pm Aomar Boum is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Departments of Anthropology, History, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. A historical anthropologist, Boum is interested in the place of religious and ethnic minorities...