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WINTER ART OPENING & RECEPTION
WINTER ART OPENING & RECEPTION
Featuring the Jewish Artists Initiative
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
7:00-9:00 pm
Where: Spiegel Auditorium, Hillel at UCLA
Free & open to the public
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ISRAEL AT 75
The Long Way to Statehood
An exhibition of artifacts from The Seidler-Feller Family Collection
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Gindi Gallery, Hillel at UCLA
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Student Photo Contest
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Spiegel Auditorium, Hillel at UCLA
Student Fine Art Show
The Dortort Center presents its annual, curated, and juried Student Fine Art Show with submissions accepted from students of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture.
The second prize of the Student Fine Art Show winner receives $500.
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Spiegel Auditorium, Hillel at UCLA
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Leah Likin Exhibit Opening
"Feelings of Uncertainty in the Times of Covid, Climate Change, and Handheld Digital Spaces"
Monday, May 22th, 2023
6:00 pm
BULGARIAN FILM SCREENING & LECTURE
An event on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews and in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and crimes against humanity. The screening will be followed by a lecture on Bulgaria and the Jews during the Holocaust: A European Exception given by Associate Professor Rumyana Marinova-Christidi of Sofia University.
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About the Film:
A gripping story of 49,172 Jews in Bulgaria who escaped the atrocities of the Second World War and a dramatic post-war account of those who rescued their Jewish compatriots. Director Plamen Petkov embarks on a journey to discover the reason why Bulgaria, amongst all of the nations occupied by the German forces during World War Two, managed to shield their Jewish community from the very worst aspects of the Holocaust. Persecution and salvation are explored through multiple interviews with Holocaust survivors. The film honours the rescuers of Bulgaria’s Jewish community, paying tribute to their heroic acts of bravery in defying the overwhelming sway of Nazi rule.
*Synopsis taken from the Jewish International Film Festival website.
About the Lecture:
It is a well-known fact that the Bulgarian Jews survived the Holocaust, none of them was deported to the Nazi death camps and this is an European exception. On another hand, the Jews from the so called “New Added” territories of the Kingdome - Macedonia and Thrace – were deprived of citizenship and deported to Treblinka where they all perished. What are the facts behind these stories and how the historians interpret them? Salvation and deportation, mythology and reality? Where the line lies and what national historiography is choosing to hide, underline, point out or pass over in silence? What made the salvation of 48 000 Jewish lives possible in a country allied to Germany, governed by a pro-Nazi government? And what made the German Ambassador to Sofia in 1943 to exclaim: “Bulgarian society does not understand the real meaning of the Jewish question… an ordinary Bulgarian does not understand the meaning of the struggle against Judaism, even more, that the racial question from its nature is incomprehensible to him”. And why after the war the majority of the Bulgarian Jewish community preferred to leave the country that saved their lives?
About the Speaker:
Dr Rumyana Marinova-Christidi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of History, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and Head of the Jewish Studies Program (Hebraistika).
Rumyana Christidi was born in Sofia in 1977. She received her Master degree in History and Archives from the Faculty of History, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and her PhD in Contemporary Bulgarian History from the same Faculty. She teaches the Communist Period in Bulgaria, Antisemitism and Holocaust, History of the Bulgarian Jews.
Rumyana Christidi has been a visiting professor at the University of Haifa (Israel), Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Aristotelio University (Greece), University of Western Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece), the University “Carlo Bo” in Urbino (Italy), and at the Link Campus University in Rome. She is an author of two monographs and many articles published in Bulgaria and abroad.
Rumyana Christidi is a holder of an award by the Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria “Shalom” for her “exceptional contribution in the realization of interethnic and religious dialogue, the fight against manifestations of hate and xenophobia, and in strengthening relations between Bulgarians and Jews”.
She is a member of the Bulgarian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and a member of the European Association for Jewish Studies.
FALL ART OPENING
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
7:00-9:00 pm
7:00 pm Reception
8:00 pm “Art & Trauma: In a Time of War” a talk by Paul and Tania Abramson
8:30 pm Screening of two short films, "Antarctica" and "Heart Hug"
Where: Hillel at UCLA, 574 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Free & open to the public
About the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem:
Established in 1906, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem is proud to be recognized as Israel’s preeminent academic institution for art, design and architecture. With over 2500 students and 500 faculty members, the Academy is known for its excellence in educating and enriching generations of aspiring artists and designers and for encouraging them to use their distinctive skills and viewpoints to engage with the society around them.
Bezalel teaches undergraduate and graduate degrees in a myriad different art and design disciplines: architecture and urban design; fashion and jewelry; fine arts; glass and ceramics; industrial design; photography; screen-based arts; and visual communication. Degree programs are also offered in theory and policy of the arts and visual and material culture.
Stemming from all segments of society, religious, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds students at Bezalel are taught to use their distinctive skills to embrace humanistic and human-centered approaches, to meet the challenges of today’s global society and blaze their own unique trail in tomorrow’s worlds of art, architecture and design.
Typified by pioneering originality and creativity, Bezalel furthers disparate viewpoints and stimulates original and independent thinking, promoting creative liberty and freedom of expression that push boundaries to innovate in Israel and beyond.
Tania L. Abramson, MFA is a visual/conceptual artist as well as a lecturer in the Honors Collegium at the University of California, Los Angeles and in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the co-creator and co-instructor of the UCLA Art and Trauma and Feminism, Art, and Metaphors of Trauma classes. Her course at UCSB, Keep Your Hands Off: Reproductive Justice, Mass Incarceration, and Eco-feminism, links the aforementioned topics through the control of women’s bodies. Ms. Abramson has lectured throughout the US and internationally and authored numerous scholarly articles in the field of Art & Trauma. She has also authored several artbooks – Shame and the Eternal Abyss, Concern, and Truth Lies, published by Asylum 4 Renegades Press.
Dr. Paul R. Abramson has been a professor of psychology at UCLA for nearly 50 years. He is the author of 11 books, published by the likes of Oxford University Press, MIT Press, University of Chicago Press, NYU Press, and W.W. Norton. He is also the author of over 130 scientific articles. Over the course of Dr. Abramson’s career, he has also served as an expert witness, in both civil and criminal litigation, involving cases of severe trauma. Child sexual abuse, for example, and the wrongful conviction of murder. Finally, in his spare time, Paul is the creative force behind the band Crying 4 KafKa. His music can be heard on Crying 4 KafKa Spotify.
Together, Tania and Paul recently published a chapter titled, Art and Trauma: An Aesthetic Journey, in an Oxford University Press Handbook. They were also recent recipients of the UCLA Eugen Weber Honors Collegium Teaching Award.