Esteemed Scholar in Jewish Studies and Modern Literature
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Murray Baumgarten (B.A. Columbia, Ph.D. Berkeley) is a Distinguished Professor of English and Contemporary Literature in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He serves as the Co-director of Jewish Studies and is the Founding Director of The Dickens Project. Baumgarten has published extensively on modern Jewish and English writing, alongside original fiction and translation. His recent work focuses on the Jews of Venice and the afterlife of the Ghetto. Together with Professor Peter Kenez, he has taught the course “Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry” for many years and has received a campus award for excellence in teaching.