Events

Organizer: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies Date and Time: Tuesday, October 6 @ 5:00-6:30pm Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus In her new book, Zionism in Translation: Encounters in the German-Hebrew Archive, Na’ama Rokem investigates written exchanges by a range of literary twentieth century authors, including Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Yehuda Amichai, Ludwig…

Organizer: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies Date and Time: Wednesday, October 7 @ 4:00-5:30pm Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley campus The biblical story of the ten plagues, the series of disasters sent against Pharaoh and the Egyptian in order to compel them to free the Israelites, introduced into collective imagination a connection between…

Organizers: UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Date and Time: Thursday, October 22, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Location: Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA Annual Diller Lecture The 1948 Arab-Israeli War attracted attention from the highest levels of international society, state governments, transnational…