The Department of History presents the Jewish Studies Lecture Series. Three lectures and one film are scheduled.

• Tuesday, March 28, 3:30 p.m.: Gloria Orenstein (Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, University of Southern California), "Jewish American Women Artists: Intersections of Feminism and Jewish Identity in Contemporary Art." Industrial Technology 101.

• Wednesday, April 5, 3:30 p.m.: Max Baumgarten (Jack H. Skirball Fellow in Modern Jewish Culture, UCLA), "What Makes the Neighborhood Jewish?: Contesting and Promoting Gentrification in 1980s Los Angeles." McKee Fisk 208.

• Wednesday, April 19, 3:30 p.m.: Alma Heckman (History and Jewish Studies, UC Santa Cruz), "North African Jews and the Holocaust." Library 3212.

• Tuesday, April 25, 6 p.m:. Denial (US, 2016). Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, the film recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Academy Award® winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, in cases of libel, the burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team, led by Richard Rampton (Academy Award® nominee Tom Wilkinson), to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. McLane Hall 161.

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