Sunday, November 15
Documentary Film Festival, National Library of Israel, https://docutext.nli.org.il/english-abroad through November 25. Check schedule for related events, and times).
8:30 am Tamar Kaye, Avigayil Koegary, and Shulamit Reinharz, “Unchained,” Boston Jewish Film Festival, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, https://prod1.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=265656~3a1dbf00-5ad7-4f53-af12-28ba7bfe20f4&epguid=4a5f5d1e-ded0-49df-beae-5f2dfbca6e40&
11 am Yonathan Levy, Andre Miko, and Anne Nelson, “Das Kind (film and discussion),” Sousa Mendes Foundation, http://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-das-kind/#more-18791
11 am Daniel Kahn, “Yiddish Schmooze,” The Worker’s Circle, https://circle.org/event/yiddish-schmooze-home-daniel-kahn/?fbclid=IwAR1zMEYTPtrcCfcAbtImmlTYM_SNkXGnkwMyCJZOPIKMDEm2T6ez1YdUHEE
12 pm Larry Tye, “Superman: A Jewish Hero When We Need One,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMscOivpz4tH9Xq8m5AsItQ5_lHQwleMIR1?utm_source=CSP&utm_campaign=190e6270f9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_03_04_55_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ee28fcba1-190e6270f9-362312771
12 pm Trio Sefardi, “La Nona Kanta: The Remarkable Life of Flory Altarac Jagoda, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/venonaknta1120
2 pm Bernard Cooperman and Jason Lustig, “Salo Baron: Celebrating 90 Years of Jewish Studies at Columbia University,” Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, https://www.iijs.columbia.edu/upcoming-events/2020/11/15/salo-baron-celebrating-90-years-of-jewish-studies-at-columbia
3 pm Erica Lehrer, “Terribly Close: The Holocaust in Polish Folk Art,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas-Austin, https://utexas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4Rk8Eox6RKil3oN45mEnuw
3 pm Gavriel Rosenfeld, “The Specter of Nazism Since World War II,” Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver, bit.ly/Marcus2020
3 pm Ayelet Tsabari, David Bezmozgis, Norman Ravvin, and Nessa Rapoport, “Canadian Jewish Historical Fiction,” Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, York University, https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lbnjI3StTRWcYgo9TyW9EA
4 pm Golem, Klezmer Concert, Museum of Jewish Heritage, https://898a.blackbaudhosting.com/898a/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=649ae77a-53ce-492e-96d1-88fece8b0ddf&_ga=2.198621990.845445494.1604788887-1823731166.1604342483
Monday, November 16
5 am Mendel Kranz, “Jacques Hassoun and the Politics of the Arab Jew in Postcolonial France,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, https://ccjs.uchicago.edu/node/4/details/CAL-ff808081-751b88d2-0175-1cf7fbc7-00001030eventscalendar%2540uchicago.edu
9:30 am Elazar Ben-Lulu and Shirley Idelson, Healing Support and Commemoration: Reform Jewish Liturgy for HIV/AIDS, “Anthropological View of Jewish Liturgy for Female Victims of Sexual Assault,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHF7xBXWkEARC8on5T-otjEJ7vwSyt2pHFEPg1rtnUeftziw/viewform
9:30 am Rachel Korazim and Karin Lagziel, “Identity Crisis: The Israeli Struggle with National Identity,” 92nd Y, https://www.92y.org/event/identity-crisis
10 am Ariana Neumann, “When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains,” Holocaust Museum Houston, https://hmh.org/events/author-talk-with-ariana-neumann-2020-11-16-12:00:00
10 am Elai Rettig, “Israel in a New Middle East,” Israel Center, Washington University and St.Louis Jewish Federation, https://www.jfedstl.org/events/rettig/?utm_source=Jewish+Federation+of+St.+Louis&utm_campaign=68c70fac84-Rubin_Israel_Elblast_1.13.20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d6b58eaf0b-68c70fac84-234579693
10 am Azza Karam, “A Dialogue of Love: Interreligious Cooperation and Global Wellbeing,” Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Jewish Theological Seminary, https://www.wizevents.com/register/register_add.php?sessid=11382&id=719610
10 am Dalia Scheindlin, “Can An Israeli-Palestinian Federation Work,” Valley Beit Midrash, https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/event/israeli-palestinian-confederation/
11 am David Lisbona, “From Glory to Dispersion – The Sephardic Lisbona family from Damascus,” Sephardic World, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81392277216
11 am Julia Neuberger, Rachel Polonsky, Mika Provata-Carlone and Robert Max. “Escaping Extermination: Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist,” Wiener Holocaust Library, https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/?location_id=15&item=586&itemoffset=0
2:30 pm Robin Buller, “La Confédération Universelle des Juifs Sépharadites: , https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/la-confederation-universelle-des-juifs-sepharadites-building-a-transnational-sephardi-network-out-of-interwar-paris/
2:30 pm Christine Trotter, “Hellenistic Jewish Consolatory Rhetoric and the Destruction of Jerusalem: The Case of Hebrews,” Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, https://ccjs.uchicago.edu/node/4/details/CAL-ff808081-75354954-0175-36b4d3a7-000010efeventscalendar%2540uchicago.edu
4:30 pm Herbert Marbury, “Moses in the African American Tradition,” Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University, https://trusted.bu.edu/s/1759/2-bu/19/1col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=9616&content_id=11009
4:30 PM Josh Lambert, “@#$%&*! Jews: From the Comics Page to the Graphic Novel,” Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut, Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford, https://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/upcoming-events/
4:30 pm Tony Michel, “For the Better Jewish Reader: The Birth of Yiddish Magazines in America,” Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University, https://emory.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vQdZvyAjSXaobQVFG84T1w
Tuesday, November 17
8 am Pierre Birnbaum and Maurice Samuels, “Understanding Antisemitism in France,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, https://streicker.nyc/current-season/fall-2020/understanding-anti-semitism-in-france
8 am Merav Zafary-Odiz, Ariane M. Tabatabai, Or (Ori) Rabinowitz , and Elai Rettig, “Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: Israeli and Iranian Perspectives,” Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University, https://wustl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtdO6vrTIiGNL1dyOjOZxdQJh8tFha3Jzd?_x_zm_rtaid=aHovdXGoQwORiMUAOxzTDg.1604176922894.bc36292d63094b40a69da692b710394c&_x_zm_rhtaid=753
9 am Avi Weiss and Alex Weinreb,“Israel in the Shadow of Covid19-Just the Facts,” Gilderhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/israel-in-the-shadow-of-covid-19-just-the-facts-registration-121035007967
9:30 am Jillian Stinchcomb, “Riddling Materiality: The Queen of Sheba and Solomon in 9th Century Texts,” Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University, https://www.brandeis.edu/tauber/events/colloquium/index.html
11:30 am Oren Krell-Zeldin, “Voices of Dissent: Palestine Solidarity Activism and the Politics of Jewish Identity,” Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, University of San Francisco, https://usfca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-uvrjgrGNVE7UYlKVUQpLnjpChvWafM
12 pm Clyde Ford, “Technology, the Holocaust, and Human Rights,” Holocaust Center for Humanity, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwo-HoQ67mJ50rdHMDNTw3CSEc08JZ4eevgoIOzY5pCh6P_w/viewform
12 pm (3 more sessions on subsequent Tuesdays) Mark Goodman, “Medieval Judaism,” American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/whizin-center-continuing-education/events/Medieval-Judaism
2 pm (3 more sessions on subsequent Tuesdays) Michael Berenbaum, “Antisemitism: Past, Present, and Future,” American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/whizin-center-continuing-education/events/Antisemitism-Past-Present-and-Future
2 pm Yair Mintzker, “Jospeh Suess Oppenheimer: The Rise and Fall of an 18th Century Court Jew,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota, https://umn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GGquyoKnSFWUuN68XTgu2A
2:20 pm Justin Moses, “What Did God Write on the Tablets,” Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, https://ccjs.uchicago.edu/node/4/details/CAL-ff808081-751b88d2-0175-1d0b7f38-00001195eventscalendar%2540uchicago.edu
3 pm Sheila Prell Sonenshine, Alexander Kaye, and Lynn Kaye, “A Contemporary Perspective on 2000 Years of Jewish Law,” Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Legal Studies Program, Brandeis University, and the Brandeis Alumni Lawyers Network, https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/2516026096850/WN_i5pPfx3cRY2UtGWvDMkzYA
4 pm Devin Naar, “From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz and Beyond: Is the Holocaust a European Event?” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/2020-course-lecture-series-lessons-not-learned-from-the-holocaust/?#november17/
4 pm Alan Zweibel, “Laugh Lines: My Helping Helping Funny People Be Funnier,” Vilna Shul, Jewish Book Council, Jewish Arts Collaborative, and Jewish Community Centers of the North Shore, https://vilnashul.org/events/event/laugh-lines-my-life-helping-funny-people-be-funnier
4:30 pm Anthea Butler, “Then and Now: Black-Jewish Relations in the Civil Rights Movement,” Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBsveMmCSiah-4AytHa2vA
4:30 pm Allen Schwartz, “Conflict and Resolution in the Early Prophets,” Yeshiva University, https://www.yu.edu/events/all?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D474879545
5 pm Alan Cooper, “Whatever Happened to Moses’ Family?” Jewish Theological Seminary, https://www.wizevents.com/register/register_add.php?sessid=11804&id=7554
5 pm Ariel Burger, “Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center,” https://18161.blackbaudhosting.com/18161/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=d3c66511-792b-4791-8a02-d47f7c4cfc47
5 pm Vered Weiss, “Juda and the New Jew: Undead Jewish Israeli Identities, Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University, https://jewish.sfsu.edu/events/2020/11/17/825-juda-and-new-jew-undead-jewish-israeli-identities-vered-weiss
7 pm Yale Strom and Hot Pastromi, “Klezmer Summit-Jews, Jazz, and Social Justice,” J Fest and San Diego Rep, https://securesite.sdrep.org/13841?fbclid=IwAR0kjM5aK9CvS7-_eun3FNMMso8_cuNxTdSV5S0T17VMSHe6aWHxCtbnwy4
Wednesday, November 18
7 am Rachel Hallote, “The Not-So Innocents Abroad: American Involvement in Biblical Archeology,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, https://streicker.nyc/current-season/fall-2020/rachel-hallote
9 am Samantha Baskind, “Archie Rand,” Hebrew Union College and Cincinnati Skirball Museum, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graphic-jews-storytelling-through-art-tickets-120249709117
9 am Moshe Rosman and Ruth von Bernuth, “Well-Behaved Women Undermining Jewish Gender: Glickl Hamel as a Model Jewish Grandmother? Jewish Studies, Fordham University, https://www.fordham.edu/info/24992/jewish_studies_events
9 am Jane Gerber, “Cities of Splendor in the Shaping of Sephardi History,” American Sephardi Federation, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8416002520424/WN_7v_8m6G9SCSyX_M9tyfOPQ?mc_cid=35e2b74deb&mc_eid=a9a90f049b
9 am Steven Fine, “What Did the Temple Menorah Look Like? An Academic Search, a Personal Passion,” Yeshiva University, https://www.yu.edu/events/all?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D479587309
9:15 am Manuela Consonni, Alon Confino, Simon Levis Sullam, and Sergio Luzzatto, “Is the Jew the Paragon of the Victim? From History to Non-Memory,” Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut, https://tinyurl.com/noether-dialogues-2
9:30 am Luba Jurgenson, “Russian Jews in the Turmoil of History: Three Ages of Stalinism,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, https://www.facebook.com/DCRES/
10 am Aaron Welt, “Unkosher: The Role of Organized Crime in the Kosher Food Trades, 1900-1920,” Jewish Studies Center, Hunter College, https://community.hunter.cuny.edu/robert-seltzer-lunch-lecture-series-fall-2020-reg-form
10 am Ari Miller, Jeremy Umansky, and Jane Ziegelman, “Fermenting and Foraging: Resourcefulness in the Historical and Contemporary Kitchen, YIVO, https://secure2.convio.net/yivo/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&id=102426
10 am Peter Hayes, “Why? Explaining the Holocaust,” Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, http://holocaustcentermilwaukee.org/events/why-explaining-the-holocaust/
10:30 am Lawrence Baron, “Rebels with an Aryan Cause: Films about Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists,” San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc–trToiE9W1qWPNS14X6z0tBwZcCzBJ?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JLearnNovemberNewsletter&utm_content=version_A&sourceNumber=4170
11 am Agnieszka Holland and Roberta Grossman, “From Behind the Camera: Polish Jewish Narratives,” Taube Jewish Heritage Tours, https://taubejewishheritagetours.activehosted.com/f/119?fbclid=IwAR1BF9AG0kGLGiqMD8pDx5iW0Vh9OOOhu4lXQLI272V4HKx7qMx_-XaJJmc
11 am Dariusz Stola, “POLIN: Museum of Jewish Life at a Site of the Holocaust in Poland, Martin-Springer Institute, Northern Arizona University, http://eepurl.com/he72tr
12:30 pm Dominique Tomasov, “Barcelona’s Jewish History: Hidden in Plain Sight,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://mailchi.mp/9d3162469030/csp-zoom-programs-week-of-april-5-4529620
3 pm Joan Adler, Warren Klein, and Karen Franklin, “Two Great Jewish Families and Their Temple: The Strauses, the Lehmans, and Temple Emanu-El,’ Leo Baeck Institute and Strauss Historical Society, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqd-mtpzgsHNO-0Lo4zt3CJ8okIWDn2QtA
4 pm Rachel Einbinder, “Jews and Plagues,” Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut and Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford, https://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/upcoming-events/
4 pm Nancy Berg and Naomi Sokoloff, “Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making,” Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies-Washington University and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, http://bit.ly/Since1948
4:30 pm Rachel Adler, and David Ellenson, “Redefining Sexual Harm in Halakhah,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrma6n0wrpsrjyOQYoJnAYtsxUIQerd21Iurb82iNMB1EVOw/viewform
5 pm Arnold Blumberg, “The Schwartz Is With Us: Mel Brooks and the Power of Parody,” Jewish Museum of Maryland, https://68398.blackbaudhosting.com/68398/The-Schwartz-is-With-Us-Mel-Brooks-and-the-Power-of-Parody
5 pm Alma Heckman, “The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging,” Center of Jewish Studies, University of California-Irvine, https://www.humanities.uci.edu/jewishstudies/calendar/events.php?recid=8646&dept_code_val=994&css_path=jewishstudies&file_name=events
Thursday, November 19
9 am Keren Fraiman and Karin Lagziel, “Israel Today and Tomorrow: Sicha with Our Slicha,” 92nd Street Y, https://www.92y.org/event/israel-today-and-tomorrow
9 am Ruben Shimonov, “At the Crossroads of the Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Russian-Speaking Worlds: The History of Bukharian Jews,” American Sephardi Federation, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6316019043262/WN_JcSyuANkQIythZJMhjAFVw?mc_cid=87ccfe325a&mc_eid=a9a90f049b
10 am Claire Zalc, Rebecca Kobrin, and Emanuelle Saada, “Denaturalized: How Thousands of Jews Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France,” Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and Department of History, Columbia University, https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtc-mvrjIsHtHUtlDv6oHG1kMQ7u3HxoWh%20
10 am Norman Solomon, “Milk and Meat: Inventing the Law,” Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, https://www.ox.ac.uk/event/meat-and-milk-inventing-law
11 am Erin McGlothlin, “Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation,” Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, https://northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MlnCrHF_TgeDk6b2kqB7Ig
11 am Dan Stone, “The Legion of the Lost: New Discoveries on the Holocaust,” Wiener Holocaust Library, https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/?location_id=15&item=578&itemoffset=0
12 pm Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Judaism and the Environmental Crisis,” Valley Beit Midrash, https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/event/judaism-environmental-crisis/
12 pm YY Jacobson, “Simply Jewish: The Secrets of Chabad,” American Jewish University, https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I6dCHsZSSwS8G9nsSiY-4w
12 pm Melissa Klapper and Lori Harrison-Kahn, “Jewish Women and Power,” Sterling Institute for Jewish Studies, Michigan State University, https://jsp.msu.edu/#event|jewish-women-and-power|5328
1 pm (2 subsequent sessions on Dec.3, 10) Pinchas Giller, “The Archeology of the Zohar,” American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/whizin-center-continuing-education/events/The-Archaeology-of-the-Zohar-
1 pm Jeffrey Veidlinger, “Anti-Jewish Pogroms and the Origins of Multiculturalism,” Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, https://umich.zoom.us/j/98611052090
4 pm Esther Amini, Angela Himsel and Ilan Stavans, “Memoirs: Jewish Authors on Identity, Culture, Language, 92nd Street Y, https://www.92y.org/event/memoirs-jewish-authors
4 pm Alexandra Minna Stern, “Tracing the History of a Toxic Present: Antisemitism and Resurgent Ethnonationalism, https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/tracing-history-toxic-present-antisemitism-and-resurgent-ethnonationalism
4 pm Sarah Willen, “Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, https://events.uw.edu/event/f01343e0-9776-4e15-8bd8-8b49130a2c75/register?rp=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
4:30 pm Richard Rothstein, “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, https://18161.blackbaudhosting.com/18161/page.aspx?pid=213&tab=2&txobjid=1a1fe215-1307-45d0-a37f-8159e53f4167
5 pm Richard Meyer, “Warhol’s Jewish Geniuses,” Spertus Institute, https://www.spertus.edu/programs-events/warhols-jewish-geniuses
6 pm Hillary Falb Kalisman, “Exams in Extremis: Standardize Testing, Politics, and Crisis in the Middle East,” Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado, https://cuboulder.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G-eLwydhQWO7-rkyS0Ck8Q
6:30 pm Trio Sefardi, Jewish Studies, Sonoma State University, http://jewishstudies.sonoma.edu/events/2020/jewish-music-series-trio-sefardi
Friday, November 20
7:30 am Stephen Brown, “Chaim Soutine: Flesh,” 92nd Street Y, https://www.92y.org/event/great-thinkers-stephen-brown
9 am Simone Schweber, “Holocaust Education in Desperate Times,” Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, [email protected]
12:30 pm Liz Diament, “Theresa Bernstein and Portrayals of Early Twentieth Century Immigrant Life in New York,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-Cqrj4rH9MxmmklDKCEkBF5KH0bOUw_
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Lawrence (Laurie) Baron, now retired, served as the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University. He served from 1988 to 2006 as director of SDSU’s Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies. He was the founder in 1995 of the Western Jewish Studies Association.
