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UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Upcoming Events
2/14/2011
Winter 2011
Gil Atzmon (2/15/11)
Yair Lorberbaum (2/17/11)
Ayala Fader (2/24/11)
Jonathan P. Decter (2/28/11)
Benjamin D. Sommer (3/3/11)
Joshua Schreier (3/8/11)
Joelle Bahloul (3/10/11)
Hillel: Junko Chodos (2/23/11)
Hillel: Gideon Spiegel (2/23/11)
NELC: Sarah Shectman (2/24/11)
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[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/8.jpg]Dear Friends,
Please find below our list of upcoming events.
Please call (310) 267-5327 or email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> to make a reservation for any of the Center sponsored events.
- CJS
CJS Upcoming Events
To RSVP email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/85.jpg]4 PM · Tuesday, February 15, 2011
UCLA Faculty Center
Gil Atzmon
(Yeshiva University)
Jews and Genes:
The Jewish Genome in the Genomic Era
Moderator: Todd Presner (UCLA)
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/86.png]Using sophisticated genetic analysis, research has discovered that Jews are widely dispersed people with a common ancestry. It has been demonstrated that Jews from different regions of the world were found to share much genetic information that is distinct from other groups and that dates back to ancient times. Dr. Atzmon will discuss the first detailed genetic maps of major Jewish subpopulations, and how researchers use it as a resource to study the genetic origins of disease.
Gil Atzmon is a graduate in Population Genetics of Hebrew University where he completed his Fellowship in Human genetics under the mentorship of Nir Barzilai. Dr. Atzomon rose to the rank of Assistant Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He is also a member of the Institute for Aging Research (IAR) and the Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC).
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Cosponsored by the
UCLA Center for Society and Genetics
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/97.png]12 PM · Thursday, February 17, 2011
6275 Bunche Hall
Yair Lorberbaum
(Bar Ilan University)
Two Concepts of 'The Decree of the Scripture' (Gezerat Ha-Katuv): A Chapter in Maimonides' Philosophy of Law and Halakhah
Faculty/Student Seminar Series
Moderator: David N. Myers (UCLA)
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/98.jpg]The term gezerat ha-katuv designates halakhic rules and institutions that have no reason. Maimonides uses it in his great legal code, the Mishneh Torah, yet it seems to contradict his position that all mitzvot have a reason and a rationale. Combining theology, philosophy of law and halakhah, Prof. Lorberbaum argues that gezerat ha-katuv have two different meanings--theological and legal jurisprudential.
Yair Lorberbaum was born in Israel, and received his doctorate in Jewish thought from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Lorberbaum is a professor at Bar-Ilan University's Law School and he is a Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He has served as a lecturer at Cardozo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Princeton University, and Yale University. He published numerous articles and books on Jewish thought, Jewish Law and Political and Legal Theory. Yair Lorberbaum won the prestigious Goldstein-Goren Book Award for 2007-2010 for his book, Image of God: Halakha and Aggadah (2004).
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund
Michael & Irene Ross Fund
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/87.jpg]12 PM · Thursday, February 24, 2011
314 Royce Hall
Ayala Fader
(Fordham University)
What do Middle-Aged Orthodox Jewish Women Want?: Self-Help Audiocassettes, Language,and Ethics
Faculty/Student Seminar Series
Moderator: David Myers (UCLA)
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/88.jpg]Drawing on recent work in the anthropology of ethics and linguistics anthropology, Professor Fader will examine nonliberal Jewish women's inspirational lectures given weekly in Brooklyn, audiotaped and circulated throughout the Jewish diaspora.
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund
Michael & Irene Ross Fund
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/89.jpg]12 PM · Monday, February 28, 2011
6275 Bunche Hall
Jonathan P. Decter
(Brandeis University)
Representing Jewish Legitimacy in the Medieval Mediterranean
Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies
Moderator: Sarah A. Stein (UCLA)
Throughout the medieval period, Jewish authors in the Mediterranean offered panegyrics in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic for leaders of different ranks that extolled the virtues of their addressees. Beyond being sycophantic expressions of loyalty or dependence upon such leaders, these panegyrics convey precious information regarding constructions of Jewish legitimacy throughout the period.
Jonathan Decter is associate professor and the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies and Undergraduate Advising Head. His research focues on Jewish literature in the Islamic World during the medieval period and in Sephardic Studies more generally. Decter is the author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe (Indiana University Press), which was awarded the Salo W. Baron prize for the best first book in Jewish Studies, 2007. He is also the co-editor, with Michael Rand, of Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin (Gorgias Press).
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/99.jpg]12 PM · Thursday, March 3, 2011
306 Royce Hall
Benjamin D. Sommer
(Jewish Theological Seminary)
A Little Higher than Angels:
Psalm 29 and the Genre of Heavenly Praise Faculty/Student Seminar Series
Moderator: Carol Bakhos (UCLA)
Professor Sommer will present work-in-progress from the commentary he is writing on the Book of Psalms. Specifically, he will address Psalm 29, which presents not only a theology but, in its call to heavenly beings to praise Yhwh, an anthropology. The discussion of this text, one of the oldest poems in the Bible, will raise issues of cultural continuity that link pre-biblical traditions from the ancient Near East through to Bible to Qumran liturgy, early Jewish mysticism, and the rabbinic siddur. Core methodological questions we will discuss include the differentiating among direct borrowing from Canaanite polytheistic prayers, literary allusion, and the common use of shared motifs.
Benjamin Sommer is Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His recent book, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel (Cambridge, 2009), received the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion (for the best book in religious studies focusing on textual analysis published in 2009) as well as the Jordan Schnitzer Award from the Association for Jewish Studies (for the best book published in the years 2006-2009 in biblical studies, rabbinics, or archaeology). His first book, A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (Stanford, 1998) received the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Resesarch.
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Cosponsored by the
UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/90.jpg]12 PM · Tuesday, March 8, 2011
306 Royce Hall
Joshua Schreier
(Vassar College)
Arabs of the Jewish Faith:
The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria
(Jewish Cultures of the World)
Book Discussion
Discussants:
Susan Slyomovics (UCLA)
Caroline Ford (UCLA)
Sarah A. Stein (UCLA)
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Professor Schreier will explore how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-19th century. His new book, Arabs of the Jewish Faith, shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities.
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
UCLA Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/93.jpg]12 PM · Thursday, March 10, 2011
6275 Bunche Hall
Joëlle Bahloul
(Indiana University)
Narrating Migration around the Table:
The Frenchification of North African Jewish Palates
Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies
Moderator: Sarah A. Stein (UCLA)
[http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs045/1102885321579/img/96.jpg]The massive migration of North African Jews to France between the late 1950s and the mid-1960s, transformed their social and cultural experiences. Professor Bahloul will discuss the adjustments in flavors and complex recipes that these migrants have made to their daily diet and festive menus to narrate their separation from their native countries.
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Cosponsored by the
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu> or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.
Affiliated Events
Please see contact information in each listing for more details
7 PM· Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Hillel at UCLA (574 Hilgard Ave.)
Art & Religion
A Lecture and Discussion Program
Part of The Intersection of Art and Religion Exhibit
by Junko Chodos at UCLA Hillel Dortort Gallery
(Feb. 23 - Mar. 13)
Sponsored by the
The Foundation for Centripetal Art
The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, UCLA Hillel
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Admission Free.
Parking is available for $10 at UCLA lot #2 on the corner of Westholme and Hilgard.
No parking on Strathmore Drive or 600 block of Westholme.
For more information, please visit this website:
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RSVP by phone 310/208-3081x108, or online at www.uclahillel.org/artreligion
7 PM· Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Gindi Hall, Hillel at UCLA (574 Hilgard Ave.)
"Memories"
Photograhy by Gideon Spiegel
Gideon Spiegel's most recent photographic series, Memories, makes connections to ancestry, collective memories, and abandoned spaces through poignant juxtapositions.
Presented by
Simcha-Moyal, Clay-Artisan, Inc.
Cosponsored by
The Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, UCLA Hillel
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Admission Free.
Parking is available for $10 at UCLA lot #2 on the corner of Westholme and Hilgard. No parking on Strathmore Drive or 600 block of Westholme.
RSVP by phone 310/208-3081x108, or perla at uclahillel.org<mailto:perla at uclahillel.org>
3 PM· Thursday, February 24, 2011
Royce Hall 314
Women's Social Status in the Hebrew Bible
Annual Winter Lecture Series on "The Bible and Its Interpreters"
Sarah Shectman
(Bar Ilan University)
Cosponsored by the
UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Pre-registration is not required.
For additional information please contact NELC at (310) 825-4165.
Community Events
Please see contact information in each listing for more details
Jewish Studies Winter 2011 Course
Reading the Hamsa
Skirball Cultural Center Winter 2011 Course
Yehuda Sharim
(UCLA)
January 26 - February 23, 2011
Wednesdays, 1:30-3:00 PM
ADMISSION:
$125 General
$100 Members
$75 Full-Time Students
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