The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, the Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Institute for European Studies, and the Jewish Studies Program at UC Berkeley are proud to present: Michael Hagemeister Universität Basel AN APOCALYPSE OF OUR TIME: SERGEI NILUS AND THE "PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION" Monday, September 19, 2011 4:00 […]
Aron Rodrigue Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, Stanford University. The small Sephardi Jewish community of the island of Rhodes lived under Ottoman rule for centuries. The island was conquered by Italy in 1912, and the community underwent a complete political and economic transformation as a result of the new circumstances that […]
Please join us to celebrate the community-wide reception in honor of this year’s winners of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards. The program will include readings of the winning poems and refreshments. The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on Jewish experience were established in 1987 by Nedda Fratkin, Marvin Rosenberg and Violet Ginsburg in memory of their mother, […]
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, UC Berkeley announces The Winners of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards, 2012 First Prize (shared): Lauren Camp and Yosefa Raz The 2012 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience were awarded to two poets. Based on their outstanding submissions, the judges elected to award […]
A professor of history at the University of West Georgia, Goldstein is the foremost authority on the history of Jewish community in China. He writes and teaches on Holocaust history, Jewish diasporas in Asia, and East-Asian international relations. This program is FREE Co-presented with the Jewish Studies Program. Sponsored by the Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed […]
Please join Jewish Family & Children’s Services of the East Bay for the continuation of our special series featuring Holocaust survivors reading from their published works. All events will take place at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Life & Art in Berkeley. You’re welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:00 […]
Professor Benor’s upcoming talk describes the range of Jewish American English – from the addition of a few Yiddish words among Jews with weak connections to organized Jewish life to the “Yeshivish” of strictly Orthodox Jews, which is filled with words from Yiddish, Hebrew, and Aramaic and Yiddish influences in grammar and pronunciation. Jews of various stripes use subtle variation in […]
