2011  Jewish Studiesrss

  • September 23, 2011

    New book sheds light on survival of Jewish culture

    This October, UCSC professor of literature and history Nathaniel Deutsch will offer the first complete translation of a little known ethnographic questionnaire--and the story of an ambitious attempt to document a culture during an extraordinarily volatile time in world history.

  • May 17, 2011

    'Searching For Yiddish Land'

    “Having been in decline for decades, Yiddish is fading as a spoken language in the United States. But at UCSC, a small group of students and faculty are committed to its preservation…”

  • May 03, 2011

    Jewish Studies conference set for UC Santa Cruz on May 22-24

    A conference designed to highlight the role women have played in the forging of Italian Jewish identity will take place May 22-24, on the UC Santa Cruz campus.