This is a lecture at the investiture of Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies.

UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal, Dean of Humanities Tyrus Stovall,  Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies Nathaniel Deutsch and
Professor Emeritus Murray Baumgarten* share their thoughts and stories on Professor Baumgarten's career at UC Santa Cruz on 22nd January 2017, 24th of Tevet, 5777.

Professor Murray Baumgarten is a research professor of literature and distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at UC Santa Cruz. This chair honors Professor Baumgarten, the person most responsible for today's thriving Jewish Studies program and for founding the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. In 1967, Professor Baumgarten co-founded the world-renowned Dickens Project, and ten years ago, with the help of the Helen Diller Family Foundation, he established the Jewish Studies program.

* Professor Murray Baumgarten
Research Professor, Literature
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English & Comparative Literature
Founding Director, The Dickens Project
Founding Editor, the California Carlyle Project
Projects Coordinator,  Jewish Studies
Consigliere, Venice Center for International Jewish Studies

Ted Goldstein