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Graduate Student Workshop “Jews, Germans, and other Europeans: Modern Encounters”

December 14, 2016 - December 16, 2016
3205 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA United States + Google Map

Graduate Student Workshop "Jews, Germans, and other Europeans: Modern Encounters" is jointly organized by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Institute for German and European Studies at UC Berkeley and Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. It is co-sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the UC Berkeley Department of History.

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Melting Pots Compared? Italian Jewry and Contemporary Israel | Sergio Della Pergola (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

December 14, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
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Contemporary Israel's model of large-scale heterogeneous Jewish migration followed by complex processes of absorption and integration is not unique in Jewish history. To some extent the long-term experience of Jewish communities in Italy anticipated it and provided some yardsticks for comparisons. Of course the quantitative scale of migrations and population size was different, and while […]

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