UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies
@UCJewishStudies
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The mission of the Center is to gather faculty, students, and visiting academics for research and debate across the wide scholarly landscape of Jewish Studies.
Joined August 2019
Yiddish has something for everyone! Check out two of our Fall 2025 classes: Elementary Yiddish and "Jewish Humor." Both classes are offered online and are open for cross-campus enrollment to students at other UC campuses!
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Announcing CJAN, the Cal Jewish Alumni Network - open to alumni, students & community members. Working to ensure the belonging and inclusion of Cal's Jews on campus, and to advocate for Jewish safety and rights. Learn more & apply here: https://t.co/Je4oiNW1PN
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Mark your calendar and join us next Tuesday, October 8th - in person or via livestream - for a talk by Jonathan Judaken @judakenj on his recently published book “Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism.” To register, click here: https://t.co/9y9fTqze91
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FALL 2024 Class: UC Online! Judeo-Spanish Seminar (Multi-level); 6 quarter units / 4 semester units credit. Click to register: https://t.co/uxutpDdXQp
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Next Wednesday at 6pm! @UCBerkeley @UCJewishStudies Annual Pell Lecture, "Atrocities' Truth Tellers: Armenian and Jewish Victim Testimony in Interwar Europe" with Williams College Professor Alexandra Garbarini is at #TheMagnes. Learn more and RSVP at https://t.co/Z5XLnQHg1n
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Join us tomorrow evening for a talk with historian Renée Poznanski, whose telling of the French Resistance during World War II offers a comprehensive exploration of the most significant issue in that period’s social imaginary: the “Jewish question.”
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Tomorrow evening! Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York — a special lecture w/ historian Deborah Dash Moore & @UCBerkeley Prof David M. Henkin. Presented by @UCJewishStudies & #TheMagnes
@UCBLettersSci @UCBHistory RSVP @ https://t.co/rcf3gFKHy8
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Join us this Thursday, Feb. 1 for “Anti-Zionism on Campus: Legitimate Protest or Dangerous Hate Speech?” - Part 1 of a two-part conversation between Profs @EthanKatz79 (UC Berkeley) and @DovWaxman (UCLA). Learn more here:
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"Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic? A Two-Part Conversation" featuring @EthanKatz79 (UC Berkeley) & @DovWaxman (UCLA). Feb 1 – Anti-Zionism on Campus: Legitimate Protest or Dangerous Hate Speech? Feb 15 – The Debate Over Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism RSVP: https://t.co/VsNkVczDc3
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Join us ONLINE this Wednesday 11/29 at 4:00pm PST for the annual Diller Lecture! Rabbi, scholar, and disability rights activist Julia Watts Belser presents "God’s Body in Pain: Disability and Divine Solidarity in Jewish Text and Tradition." Register: https://t.co/3C3mePAZWS
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A call for community from UC Berkeley campus leaders.
news.berkeley.edu
Chancellor Carol Christ sent to the following message to the Berkeley campus community Thursday afternoon. We are increasingly concerned by the growing prevalence of online threats, doxxing and...
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We are delighted to share that @EthanKatz79 has been appointed as the new Director of the Center for Jewish Studies @UCBerkeley. Please join us in congratulating Ethan! Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/TSGTyPhNyA
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Join us! In conversation with @UCBerkeley historian @EthanKatz79, civil rights strategist Eric K. Ward @BulldogShadow speaks to how antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism. This event will be live-streamed. To register, click https://t.co/Mv3xwClIez
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Join us this evening as we welcome @zachary_mazur_ of the @polinmuseum for his talk, “The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Resistance and Survival in the Holocaust.” To learn more and to register for the livestream, click here: https://t.co/hLdZbvpkAN
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We're thrilled to welcome @ProfRosenblum to Berkeley this week for his talk, "The Jew as Other and The Other White Meat: Pigs and Jewish Identity." Please join us! Find our more and register here: https://t.co/N8dU5xvGN2
@ucberkeley @UCBArtsHum @ucbreligion
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Helen Diller annual lecture tonight at 5:00pm PST! Join us as we welcome 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘃𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗴𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗻 for "Shared Appeals to Different Gods: Jews, Christians and Medieval Prayer." Learn more and register here: https://t.co/NAVM9oCpSN
@magnes @UCBArtsHum @UCBerkeley
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Join us this Thursday, Feb. 2 as Dr. @aomar_boum presents a collaborative graphic narrative highlighting the history of Saharan Vichy camps. To learn more, and to RSVP, visit our Events page at https://t.co/OQh6VVeq8T
@UCBerkeley @UCBArtsHum @UCLA
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Don't miss "Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry," w/ Uwe Westphal examining pre-WWII Jewish participation in Berlin’s fashion industry. #TheMagnes @UCJewishStudies @sfgoethe @GermanyinSF
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Join us this Wednesday for "Beyond the Temple: Jewish Material Identity from the Hasmoneans to Herod" with Dr. Andrea Berlin (Boston University). Learn more and RSVP here: https://t.co/FB8jiFYeC3
@UCBerkeley @UCBArtsHum
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Featured SPRING 2023 Class! JS120A.003 “Philology in Exile.” 3 to 4 Units. Counts toward the Jewish Studies Minor. Find out more and register here: https://t.co/FcXUNv3EUh
@UCBerkeley @UCBArtsHum @RhetoricUCB
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