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Assistant professor of history and Jewish Studies Alma Rachel Heckman has been appointed as the new holder of the Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed Chair at UC Santa Cruz. The interdisciplinary endowed chair was established in 1995 by Anne Neufeld-Levin, a former president of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees, to support teaching, research, and …
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Rachel Deblinger and Paul Jaskot (Duke) lead a cohort of 20 university faculty at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 2017 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty is titled Visualizing the Holocaust and the Use of Digital Humanities in the Classroom. Mapping, data visualization, and text analysis invite new modes of thinking about …
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DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN THE JEWISH STUDIES CLASSROOM A webinar for the Association of Jewish Studies Led by Rachel Deblinger and Nathaniel Deutsch Monday, March 27, 2017 This webinar will explore the possibilities of using digital tools in the Jewish Studies classroom. We will introduce the idea of a Digital Jewish Studies and discuss the benefits …
Over 150 donors commit nearly $1 million to support research, teaching, and public events UC Santa Cruz has established an endowed chair to honor the person most responsible for the thriving Jewish Studies program that exists on the campus today. Over 150 donors have committed a combined total of $977,130 to establish the new Murray Baumgarten …