SAN DIEGO – Here are streaming Jewish lectures from Sunday, Aug. 16 through Friday, Aug. 21.
Sunday, August 16
10 a.m. “Jewish Museums Across the Seas: South Africa,” Jewish Museum of Maryland.
10:30 a.m. Renan Koen, “Before Sleep: A Piano Recital Holocaust Remembrance of the Jews of Rhodes and Cos,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies-University of Washington, Congregation Esra Bessaroth, Holocaust Center for Humanity, Sephardic Bikur Holim, Settle Sephardic Network, and Sephardic Brotherhood of America. Password EB2020
11 a..m. Yael Katzir, Natalia Indrimi, Mordecai Paldiel, and Shuni Lifshitz “Shores of Light: Salento 1945-1947,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.
12 p.m. Lawrence Schiffman, “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism,” Orange Country Community Scholar Program.
4:30 p.m. Linda Hirschhorn and David Shneyer, “Sing a New Song Psalms Showcase,” Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal,
Monday, August 17
10 a.m. Norma Libman, “Could Columbus Have Been Jewish? And Should We Care?” New Mexico Jewish Historical Society.
10 a.m. Jan Uhrbach, “God of the Faithful, God of the Faithless: Belief and Doubt in Prayer,” Jewish Theological Seminary,
10 a.m Levi Cooper, “Incense (Ketoret) to Combat Plagues,” Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.
10 a.m. Shirel Horovitz, “Israeli Art Under Quarantine,” Orange Country Community Scholar Program.
11 a.m. Bruce Henderson, “Sons and Soldiers: German Jews Who Escaped Nazi Germany and Returned with the US Army to Fight Hitler,” Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
3:30 p.m. Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
6:30 p.m. Janet Ilene Roth, “L’Chaim: A Taste of Jewish Music from Tel Aviv,” Colorado Hebrew Chorale.
Tuesday, August 18
11 a.m. Joanna Hershon, “The German Bride,” Leo Baeck Institute.
11 a.m. Jeff Jarkow, “The Legal Road to Auschwitz,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
12 p.m. Paul Regelbrugge, “The Yellow Star House: Surviving the Holocaust in Hungary in a Protected House,” Holocaust Center for Humanity.
12:30 p.m. Josh Teplitsky, “Prince of the Press: How David Oppenheim Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
4 p.m. David Slucki and Stephanie Butnick, “GENerally Speaking (Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors), Museum of Jewish Heritage.
5 p.m. Debbie Simon Konkol, Joanne Simon Weinberg, and Simon Halverson, “From the Holocaust to Civil Rights,” Jewish Museum of Milwaukee.
7 p.m. Marc Dollinger, “1619, 1654, 2020: Jews and Racism,” Temple Emanu-El, San Diego.
Wednesday August 19
1 p.m. Michael Walzer, “Exodus and Revolution,” Valley Beit Midrash.
4 p.m. Danny Ben-Moshe, “Outback Rabbis (Film about rabbis in Australian outback),” American Jewish University.
4:30 p.m. Kenneth W. Stern, “Arab-Israeli Negotiations: From Nixon to Trump and Beyond the 2020 Elections,” Emory Alumni Association.
5 p.m. Daniel Kelley and Lauren Krapf, “Confronting Hate and Extremism in Online Gaming and Social Media,” Anti-Defamation League.
Thursday, August 20
7 a.m. Marcia Jo Zerivitz, “Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories,” The Breman Museum.
9:30 a.m. Ilan Stavens and Ray Suarez, “Jews and Latinos: Immigrants Across a Century,” Jewish Book Council, Natan Fund, and Yiddish Book Center.
11 a.m. David Shneer, “Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph,” Program in Jewish Studies-University of Colorado.
12:30 p.m. Rafi Zarum, “Transparent: What Makes Ritual Meaningful?” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
3 p.m. Jennifer Mendelsohn, “Family History Today: Adventures in Genealogy,” Center for Jewish History.
4 p.m. Erik Anjou, “Deli Man,” Yiddish Book Center.
4 p.m. Edith Eger, “The Ballerina of Auschwitz,” Intown Jewish Academy.
5 p.m. Naomi Seidman, “Sarah Schenirer,” Jewish Women’s Archive.
5:30 p.m. Joshua Moore, Peter Eisner, and Steven Pressman, “Reconsidering the Catholic Church and the Holocaust.”
Friday, August 21
12 p.m. Heidi Rabben and Qianjin Montoya, “Democracy Sounds Good: A Conversation on Artists, Arts, and Activism,” Contemporary Jewish Museum.
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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.