[Hum_Calendar_Events] CJS Weekly Announcement: 11/5/09

Thu Nov 5 16:21:33 PST 2009

CJS Announcement

Advance registration is required for all CJS events. 

To RSVP, please call (310) 267-5327 or email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu
<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> 

CJS FALL EVENTS:

Sunday, November 8, 2009 

314 Royce Hall  *  1 pm

Sholom Aleichem at 150:

Celebrating the Yiddish Comic Master

Symposium on the 150th Anniversary

of Sholom Aleichem

Sponsored by the UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American &
World Culture

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for 

European and Eurasian Studies and 

Yiddishkayt Los Angeles

Thursday, November 12, 2009

314 Royce Hall  *  4 pm

'Well Worth Saving': How American Universities Selected Faculty Fleeing
Nazi-Era Europe

Laurel Leff (Northeastern University)

Sponsored by the UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American &
World Culture

***EVENT POSTPONED***
Thursday, November 19, 2009

314 Royce Hall  *  6 pm  

Lecture and Film Screening of Amos Oz's

"My Michael"

Lev Hakak (UCLA)

Sponsored by the 

Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of

Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Faculty Center  * 4 pm  

The Parnas:

A Scene from the Holocaust in Italy

Paul Dry

Lecture followed by round table discussion with

Todd Presner (UCLA) and

Aaron Hass (Cal State, Dominguez Hills)

Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies

Cosponsored by the "1939" Club, 

the UCLA Department of English, and 

the UCLA Department of Italian

Audience members are encouraged to read the book in advance of event.
Book available for purchase at http://pauldrybooks.com
<http://pauldrybooks.com>  or www.uclastore.ucla.edu
<http://www.uclastore.ucla.edu> 

Sunday, November 8, 2009 

314 Royce Hall  * 1 pm

Sholom Aleichem at 150:
Celebrating the Yiddish Comic Master

1 PM * Introduction by Justin Cammy (UCLA)

1:15PM * Olga Litvak (Clark University)

Literature and Theft: Sholem Aleichem's "Penknife" as Mastertext of
Modern Yiddish Fiction

1:45PM * Marcus Moseley (Northwestern University)

You Can Go Home Again: Sholem Aleichem and the Family Romance

2:15 PM * Q&A Session

2:45 PM * Performance by Caraid O'Brien 

Narrate This: A World Premiere Extravaganza!

3:45 PM * Break

4 PM * Roundtable Discussion with Justin Cammy, Olga Litvak, Marcus
Moseley, and Caraid O'Brien

Sponsored by the UCLA/Mellon Program on 
the Holocaust in American & World Culture and

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Thursday, November 12, 2009 

314 Royce Hall  * 4 pm

'Well Worth Saving': 
How American Universities Selected Faculty Fleeing Nazi-Era Europe

Laurel Leff (Northeastern University)

Sponsored by the 

UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture and

the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Cosponsored by the UCLA Friends of English

Laurel Leff is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Northeastern
University. She was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and
The Miami Herald and an editor with American Lawyer Media Inc. and The
Hartford Courant. Leff has a masters in the study of law from Yale
University and a masters in communications from the University of Miami.
She received an A.B. from Princeton University with a major in the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 

Her book, Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most
Important Newspaper, was published in April 2005 by Cambridge University
Press. The American Journalism Historians Association selected Buried by
The Times as the best media history book of 2005, and ForeWord Magazine
chose it as the best history book of 2005.

AFFILIATED EVENTS:

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Schoenberg Music Building * 7:30  pm

And You Shall Know Us

 by the Trail of our Vinyl: 
The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost

Josh Kun (USC)

Sponsored by the 

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

 Cosponsored by the 

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies 

For additional information, email cheriquinto at arts.ucla.edu
<mailto:cheriquinto at arts.ucla.edu> 

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Skirball Cultural Center * 7:30  pm

America's Prophet:
Moses and the American Story

Bruce Feiler (Author)

Sponsored by the 

Skirball Cultural Center

Cosponsored by the 
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

For additional information visit:
www.skirball.org

Or call (310)440-4500

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Venue TBA  * 4 pm

Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania

 to the Ports of London and Baltimore: 

A Memoir in Five Generations

Elisa New (Harvard)

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English

Cosponsored by the 

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies 

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Sinai Temple  *  9:30 am  

Love, Lies and Poetry in Translation: 

A Lapsed Catholic Shares the Joys of Yiddish Literature

A Celebration of Jewish Book Month

Peter Manseau (Author)

Sponsored by Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library

Cosponsored by the 

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

and the UCLA/Mellon Program on the Holocaust in American & World Culture

For additional information, please contact bgoelman at sinaitemple.org
<mailto:bgoelman at sinaitemple.org> 

  Center for Jewish Studies

302 Royce Hall, Box 951485  * Los Angeles, CA  90095-1485

Tel: (310) 825-5387 * RSVP Line: (310) 267-5327

cjs at humnet.ucla.edu  * www.cjs.ucla.edu

Professor Carol Bakhos

Acting Director, Center for Jewish Studies

Vivian Holenbeck
Assistant Director

Professor Eric Sundquist

Director, UCLA/Mellon Program on the

Holocaust in American & World Culture

Mary Enid Pinkerson, PhD.

Community Affairs Coordinator

David Wu

Business and Marketing Coordinator

Hanna Navid

Program Coordinator

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