Compiled by Laurie Baron, Ph.D
All times Pacific Daylight Time
Sunday, October 11
11am Mikhal Dekel, “Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey,” Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum.
Monday, October 12
10 am Elai Rettig, “Israel’s ‘Special Relationship’ with the US,” Israel Center, Washington University.
10 am Eliezer Diamond, “Generosity, Gratitude, and Faith: Rav Eliyahu Dessler’s Integrative Approach to Creating a Meaningful Life,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
11 am Kamilė Rupeikaitė, “Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum,” The Reading Room, National Library of Israel.
11 am Isaac Herzog, David Harris, and Delphine Horvilleur, “The Changing Relationship Between Diaspora Jews and Israel,” Center for Israel Studies, American University.
12 pm Yaacov Yadgar, “Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East,” Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA.
4 pm Laurie Baron and Stuart Liebman, “1945,” Betsy Hotel, Florida International University, and the Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium,”
4 pm
Francine Hirsch, “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II.”
4 pm Danny Ben-Moshe, “Israeli State and Society through the Documentary Lens: Life in Stills,” American Jewish University.
5 pm Steve Weitzman, “Exploring the Origins of the Jews,” Jewish Studies Program, University of California, San Diego.
Tuesday, October 13 9:30 am John Michalcyzk, “Nazi Law from Nuremberg to Nuremberg,” Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University.
9:30 am Miriam Offer, Livia Sarah Yanowicz, Sean Martin, Margalit Shlain, and Ruth Weinberger, “Jewish Women Medical Practitioners in Europe Before, During, and After the Holocaust,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University.
12 pm Rebecca Erbelding, “Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe,” Holocaust Center for Humanity and Pacific Lutheran University.
12:30 pm Eshkol Nevo, “Inside the Israeli Psyche,” American Jewish University.
1 pm “The Archeology of Israel: Where Are We Today?” Jewish Studies, Purchase College.
2 pm (3 part weekly series) Michael Berenbaum, “Crisis of Faith: God and the Holocaust,” American Jewish University.
2:15 pm Michael Signer, “Reconciling Free Speech and Safety in an Era of Antisemitism and Extremism,” Center for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University.
3 pm Amy-Jill-Levine, “Virginal Conception or a Pregnant Young Woman: Jewish and Christian Readings of Isaiah 7:14,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
3 pm Sara Abosch-Jacobson, “The Holodomor: The Forgotten Genocide,” Dallas Holocaust Museum.
4 pm “A Conversation with MaNistana” Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, College of Charleston.
4 pm Yonatan Cohen and Ahmed Khater, “Assembly without Assembly: Sacred Gatherings in the Time of Covid,” Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union.
4 pm Tamar Manasseh, “They Ain’t Ready for Me Yet,” (film), Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel.”
4:30 pm David Lazerson (aka Dr. Laz), “African American and Jewish American Relations,” Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut.
5 pm Fred Astren, “Karaite Judaism: An Alternative to the Religion of the Rabbis,” Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University.
6 pm Gil Ribak and Matthew Abraham, “Border Barriers: History and Impact,” Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, University of Arizona.
7 pm Jan Gross, “The Difficulty of Confronting the Holocaust: Mass Murder in Jewabne,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Washington,
7:30 pm Bradley Artson, “Renewing the Process of Creation: Integrating Science and Religion,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Wednesday, October 14
7 am Robert Cargill, “Good Faith Archeology: Biblical Claims Confirmed and Challenged by Archeological Evidence,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
7:30 am (and on Oct.21, 28). Dore Gold, “Politics in the Middle East: Is a New Order Emerging,” Tikvah Open University.
9:30 a.m. Sergei Kan, “Alexander Goldenweiser: an American Anthropologist with Russian Jewish Roots,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
10 am Ruth Behar, “Letters from Cuba,” Be’Chol Lashon and PJ Library.
10 am Ian Lustick, “Is a Two State Solution Still Possible in Israel/Palestine,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas.
10 am Yossi Chajes, “The Kabbalistic Trees (Ilanot) of the Klau Library,” Hebrew Union College.
11 am Mara B. Gad, “The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed Race Jewish Girl,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
1 pm Derek Penslar, “Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader,” Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute.
2:30 pm Rachel Kamin, “Lost (and Found) in Translation: New Israeli Literature in English,” American Jewish University.
2:30 pm Ilan Stavans, “What Remains: The Suitcases of Charles F. at Willard State Hospital,” Vilna Shul.
4 pm Jonathan Sarna, “The First American Jewish Woman Novelist: Uncovering the Story of Cora Wilburn and her Spiritualist Novel, Cosella Wayne,” The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center.
4 pm Irene Shalene, “Global Response to the Holocaust: The Ring of Fire Austria, Germany, Hungary, the Soviet Union,” Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
5 pm Jonathan Safran Foer, “Discussing We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast and Eating Animals,” Jerry Sepinwall Jewish Environmental Fund of Congregation Agudath Israel.
5 pm Silvia Foti and Grant Gochin, “All in The Family, Jonas Noreika and the Quest for Truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania,” Holocaust Living History Workshop, University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, October 15 6:45 am Cheryl Greenberg, “Antisemitism and Racism,” Center for Israel Studies and Jewish Studies Program of American University.
11 am Talia Levin, “Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12:30 pm Samuel Gruber, “Modern Synagogue Architecture: Between Memory and Innovation.”
1 pm Marc Gellman, “Do Jews Believe in Heaven?” Valley Beit Midrash.
1 pm (2 part series) Pinchas Giller, “The Evolution of Kabbalah,” American Jewish University.
1 pm Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman, “Between the World Wars: Great Creativity and Growing Crisis,” Frankel Center for Judaism Studies, University of Michigan.
2 pm Laura Limonic and Tahneer Oksman, “The Latinx-Jewish Experience in America,” 92nd Street Y.
2 pm Noah Isenberg, “Hitler’s Refugees and the Hollywood Screen,” Department of Global and International Studies, Miami University. Meeting ID: 882 2662 7896, Passcode: 707235
2 pm Abraham Skorka, “The Jewish-Catholic Faith Traditions and the Interfaith Dialogue,” Center for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University.
2:30 pm Daniela Weiner, “Advocacy for Holocaust Education in Late 1950s Germany,” Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina.
3:30 pm Saul Noam Zaritt, Sunny Yudkoff, and Adriana X. Jacobs, “Jewish American Writing and World Literature,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
4 pm Hasia Diner, “America and Its Jews in the 1930s,” St. Elizabeth University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education and Drew University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study.
4 pm Rachel Rubinstein, “Reading Yiddish Literature in a Time of National Reckoning.” Yiddish Book Center.
4 pm Gary Motley and Gordon Vernick, “The Impact of Jews on the Jazz Scene,” Breman Museum.
4 pm Dara Goldstein, “The Ashkenazi Kitchen in America,” Jewish Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania.
4:30 pm Lewis Gordon, Jane Gordon, Jonathan Judaken, and Kal Alston, “African American Jews in America,” Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut.
6:30 pm Lior Ben Hur, “A Journey to Contemporary Jewish World Music.”
Friday, October 16
8 am Arie Dubnov, “Hebraic Mediterraneita? Revisionist Zionism, Fascist Italy, and the Judea Navalis (marine Judea) Fantasy,” Stulman Program in Jewish Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
9 am Kerry Wallach, “Rahel Szalit-Marcus, a Jewish Artist in Berlin and Paris.”
10 am Doron Kalir, “What’s New(s) in Israel,” Siegel Lifelong Learning of Case Western University.
10 am “The Pornography of Fools: Antisemitism and Sexual Fantasy,” Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh.
11 am Peter Fritzsche, “Hitler’s First Hundred Days,” Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Ramapo College.
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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.