[Hum_Calendar_Events] CJS Weekly Reminder: 11/10/09

Tue Nov 10 11:20:56 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:

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

NEW DATE:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Faculty Center  *  7 pm  

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> 

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. 

Advance registration is required.

To RSVP by phone: call (310) 267-5327

TO RSVP BY EMAIL: send an email to cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu
<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> 

AFFILIATE EVENT BELOW

For more information, please contact:
 cheriquinto at arts.ucla.edu 

(310) 206-9593

The Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA

Presents

A Book Talk by Josh Kun (USC)

With response by Chris Waterman

Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture

And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl: 

The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost

 (Random House, 2008)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:30 pm

Popper Theater

Free

What started out as a mutual affinity for kitschy Jewish album
covers-think Neil Diamond baring his chest hair on the cover of Hot
August Night or Barbra Streisand in hot pants on the cover ofStreisand
Superman-soon became a quest for identity, history, and culture between
the grooves of LPs. Together, Roger Bennett and Josh Kun embarked on a
thrilling journey, scouring the world to collect thousands of vinyl LPs
from attics, garage sales, and dusty archives. Pieced together, these
scratched, once-loved and now-forgotten audio gems tell a vibrant tale:
the story of Jews in America. And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our
Vinyl spans the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the
1980s, weaving an account that begins with sacred songs and ends with
the holy trinity of Neil, Barbra, and Barry. The LPs found here are also
a love letter to forgotten moments in Jewish American pop history,
celebrating well-dressed cantors singing Christmas tunes, Long Island
suburbanites dancing the mambo, and Chassidic prog-rockers. The music,
much of which is no longer available in any format, is brought to life
through commentary from writers Aimee Bender, Etgar Keret, Michael Wex,
and Shalom Auslander; performers Sandra Bernhard and Motown legend
Lamont Dozier; music critics Oliver Wang and Anne Powers; and TV pioneer
Norman Lear. A gateway to a forgotten kingdom of sound, the good, the
bad, and the ugly of Jewish vinyl gives this aspect of Jewish culture
the attention it so richly deserves

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and

the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Contact: Cheri Quinto: cheriquinto at arts.ucla.edu; 310-206-9593

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 

Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music and 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

Monday, November 16, 2009

Hillel at UCLA * 8  pm

The Abayudaya Jews of Uganda

A Benefit Talk and 
Music Performance by 

JJ Keki

Sponsored by the 

Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel

Cosponsored by the 
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

To RSVP, please visit:
www.uclahillel.org/jjkeki

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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