Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette’s author, Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis…
January 31, 2017 As Jewish Studies faculty at UCLA, we condemn the recent Executive Order by President Trump to deny access to immigrants and refugees from seven, predominantly Muslim countries….
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA professor of history and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, is the winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic…
The exhibit “From Brooklyn Avenue to Cesar Chavez: Jewish Histories in Multiethnic Boyle Heights,” is on display until Wednesday, honoring the naming and launch celebration of the Alan D. Leve…
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise.Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can…
Arnold Band, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California at Los Angeles, delivered the Annual Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, on May 12th to a…
In a floral-print jacket and bright-red lipstick, Dorothy Scott smiled as she thumbed through a plastic binder of photographs, letters and newspaper clippings. Among her modeling and acting headshots is…
The phrase “Kan ya ma kan” is usually translated as “Once upon a time” in Arabic literature, and is the phrase that begins many stories. The founders of Clockshop, a…
UCLA International Institute, November 12, 2015 – On July 14, 2015, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)…
PRESS RELEASE Michael Casper awarded the Lillian Goldman Fellowship for the 2015 – 2016 academic year NEW YORK – July 14, 2015 – Michael Casper, a doctoral candidate in History at…