Compiled by Laurie Baron, Ph.D
Sunday, August 2
8 a.m. Noam Sienna, “Rabbis with Inky Fingers: Making 18th Century Hebrew Books,” Sephardic World.
11 a.m. Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz, “Yiddish Songs about Jewish Women,” Yiddish Arts and Academic Association of North America.
11 a.m. Jan Grabowski, “Holocaust Distortion and the Battle for Memory and Commemoration: The Case of Poland” Ghetto Fighters’ House.
12 p.m. Nina Appel and Carole Kamin Bellows, “We Dissent: The Women Who Stood with RBG,” Illinois Holocaust Museum.
12 p.m. Mark Michael Epstein, “Jesus in Jewish Art,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Monday, August 3
10:30 a.m. (August 10 at same time) Eric Goldman, “American Jewish Story through Cinema,” American Jewish University.
2 p.m. Natan Sharansky and Rick Jacobs, “Prison, Politics, and the Jewish People,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
4 p.m. (August 3-5) Terrence Roberts and Kenya Davis Hayes, “Families United: Learning Together about Race and Racism,” Museum of Tolerance.
Tuesday, August 4
11 a.m. Irit Felsen and Elizabeth Rosner, “Trauma Studies, Creativity, and the Second Generation,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
11:30 a.m. Mark Goodman, “The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha,” American Jewish University.
1 p.m. Erica Brown, “Inspired Jewish Leadership,” Valley Beit Midrash.
4 p.m. Kim Blevins-Revella and Leah Wolfson, “Rising to the New Challenge: Remote Holocaust Education,” US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
4:30 p.m. Christian Picciolini, Amy Spitalnick, and Eric Ward, “Combating Hate: Confronting Antisemitism and White Nationalism Three Years after Charlottesville,” Illinois Holocaust Museum.
4:30 p.m. Ruth Wisse, “Jews Without Apology: Some Lessons from My Years at Harvard,” Tikvah Fund.
Wednesday, August 5
11:30 a.m. Profeti della Quinta, “Hebreo: The Search for Salomone Rossi,” Jewish Music Institute.
12 p.m. Jean Bloch Rosensaft, “Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950,” Hebrew Union College.
1 p.m. Elliot Dorff, “Jewish Law and American Jew: How Are They Different and How Are They Similar?” American Jewish University.
2:30 p.m. Ilana Kaufman, Seth Limmer, Jonah Dov Pesner, and Yolanda Savage Narda, “Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority: The Fierce Urgency of Now,” Central Conference of American Rabbis and Religious Action Center.
Thursday, August 6
7 a.m. Bailey Romano, “Weathering the Storm: Rabbi’s Responses in Times of Crisis,” The Bremen Museum.
10 a.m. Bradley Shavit Artson, “Introduction to Process Thought: Judaism through the Prism of Dynamism and Relationship,” American Jewish University.
10:30 a.m. Pinchas Giller, “The Soul and the Afterlife in Jewish Mystical Tradition,” American Jewish University.
11 a.m. Miriam Isaacs and Vladimir Fridman, “Survivor Songs: The Amazing Stonehill Recordings.” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
5 p.m. Francine Klagsbrun, “Golda Meir,” Jewish Women’s Archive.
Friday, August 7
12:30 p.m. Larry Tye, “Joe McCarthy: Anti-Communist, Anti-Gay, and Anti-Semitic?” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com
I would like to attend some of these and take some yiddish courses . Is there a fee for the zoom meetings . If so where do I pay. Can I talk to someone about the courses?