Interested in exploring Judaism though an academic lens? Want to develop a background in Jewish literature, history, languages, or cultures? You don’t need to be a Jewish Studies major to enrich your Jewish knowledge. Check out the courses the Jewish Studies program is offering winter quarter.

Amberly Young

HEB 2 Instruction in the Hebrew Language with Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
HEB 5 Intermediate Hebrew with Doron Friedman
HEB 80 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew with Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
HIS 2B The World Since 1500 with Gregory O’Malley
HIS 70B Modern European History, 1789-1914 with Mark Cioc
HIS 178B European Intellectual History,The Nineteenth Century with Jonathan Beecher
HIS 185J The Modern Jewish Experience with Paula Daccarett
HIS 196G Modern Germany and Europe with Mark Cioc
HIS 196P Hitler and Stalin with Peter Kenez
HISC 125 Jewish Socialism in Eastern Europe with Barbara Epstein
LIT 61J Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture with Murray Baumgarten
LTPR 144B Hebrew Bible with Nathaniel Deutsch
LTPR 102 Hellenistic Jewish Fiction with Daniel Selden
MUSC 80T Mizrach: Jewish Music in the lands of Islam with Avi Tchamni
YIDD 1 Introduction to Yiddish with Jonathan Levitow

Published on page 63 of the Fall 2011 issue of Leviathan.

Meet the Jewish Studies Interns! Sarah Edelstein and Hana Keefe-Guerrero are this year’s representatives for the Jewish Studies program. They are interested in making the program available to all students, despite religious, cultural or ethnic affiliation. Want to learn more about the program? You can visit them at their office hours on Thursdays at 2pm at the Stevenson Cafe . They are now accepting submissions for the Jewish Studies blog. Email submissions or questions to korsherslug@gmail.com.

Sarah Edelstein is a Jewish Studies major, thoroughly enjoying her sophomore year of slug life in the beautiful community of Stevenson College. A Cardiff by the Sea native, her interests include reading, writing, taking long strolls through the redwoods, attending Shabbat dinners at the Chabad Student Center, drinking tea, and discovering the underlying sociopolitical messages in Lil Wayne’s lyrics. Upon graduation from UCSC, Sarah hopes to spend time abroad before applying to rabbinical school at the Hebrew Union College.

Hana Keefe-Guerrero was born and raised in Berkeley in a Sephardic family. She attends a Jewish Renewal synagogue, one of the most liberal and least traditional sects of the modern Jewish world. Her connection with Judaism has been mostly cultural, therefore she finds it interesting that she have become so involved with the Jewish community. During high school, she interned at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and is now a Jewish Studies minor. She hopes to attend graduate school in Berkeley or Los Angeles, focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Published on page 62 of the Fall 2011 issue of Leviathan.

Ever wish you had a short, concise list of awesome events that are happening in our community? We thought it might be nice to provide you, our readers, with such a list. Enjoy!

November 2011
9th 12pm at Quarry Plaza. Occupy Education at UCSC.
14th 7pm at Stevenson Event Center. “Israel at the Crossroads” with Gershom Gorenberg.
16th 12pm at Humanities 1, rm 201. A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch on the history and significance of minhag.
16th 7pm at College 9 and 10 Multipurpose Room.  Between Two Worlds: documentary film screening.
17th 6pm at Humanities Lecture Hall, rm 206.  Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann.
18th 7pm at Theater Arts Mainstage. “A Year with Frog and Toad.”
18th 7pm at Chabad Student Center. “Impossible Spy at Friday Night Live” Shabbat dinner with Avraham Cohen.
28th 12:30pm at Soc Sci 1, rm 328. “Exploring the Jewish Dark Continent: Life, Death, and Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement.” An Anthropology Society Tea Time with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch.
30th 12:30pm at Soc Sci 1, rm 328. “Anthropogenic Fires and Landscape Managment Practices of the California Indians of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas.” An Archaeology and Physical Anthropology Lunch Talk with Mark Hylkema.
30th 3:30pm at Muwekma Ahlone room, Bay Tree Conference Center. Writing Effective Resumes and Cover Letters Workshop sponsored by the Career Center. 

December 2011
1st 6pm at Humanities Lecture Hall 206.  “Living Writers Series: Student Reading.”
2nd 12pm-4pm at Digital Arts Research Center.  Digital Arts and New Media Open Studios.
3rd 10am- 11am Pacific Avenue.  Downtown Association’s “Holiday Parade 2011.”
14th Klezmatics at Moe’s Alley
21st Hanukkah begins

January 2012
7th 10am at UCSC Farm-Louise Cain Gatehouse.  “Fruit Trees ‘101’: Basic Fruit Tree Care.”
13th 7:30 pm at the Music Center Recital Hall.  “American Crossroads” as part of the Friday Night Live Concerts series.
16th 7pm at the Press Center. First Leviathan staff meeting.
26th 5pm at Humanities 1, rm 210.  “What is a Reader?” with Alberto Manguel.
 30th 7pm at Communications, rm 139.  “Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle.” A Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium with Professor Leigh Raiford.
31st 11am to 3pm at College 9 and 10 Multipurpose Room.  “Winter Job & Internship Fair.”

February 2012
8th Tu B’Shvat
27th 7pm Communications, rm 139. “What Makes an Image Ethical?” a Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium with Hagi Kenaan.
28th 7pm at the Music Center Recital Hall.  “Across a Sea of Stars: Charting Distant Worlds, Other Earths” 2012 Faculty Research Lecture with Professor Steve Vogt.

March 2012
3rd 10:30am at Stevenson Event Center. Multicultural Career Conference.
5th 7pm at Communications, rm 139.  “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” a Visual  and Media Cultures Colloquium with Helga Tawil-Souri.
8th Purim

Published on page 60 of the Fall 2011 issue of Leviathan.