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Sunday, November 1
10 am David Fishman and Benny Mer, “When Libraries Mattered: The Rescue of Jewish Books and Manuscripts in the Vilna Ghetto,” Reading Room, National Library of Israel, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_am56LNAIRoyX2FoKmDFRkA
11 am Sarina Roffe, “Syrian Jews from Aleppo to Brooklyn,” Sephardic World, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83883522460
1 pm “Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent (film),” Sousa Mendes Foundation, http://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-film-and-discussion-i-shall-not-be-silent/
1 pm Richard Freund, Loic Salfati, Harry Jol, and Phil Reeder, “The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna,” Vilna Shul, https://vilnashul.org/events/event/thesecrets-of-the-great-synagogueof-vilna
4:30 pm Avi Goldwasser, “The Forgotten Refugees (film),” Hadassah Boston, www.hadassah.org/events/forgottenrefugees
Monday, November 2
7:30 am “History of the Jews in Britain from 1066,” Jewish Museum of London, https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/event/jewish-journeys-a-story-of-migration-2/
8:30 am Ron Huldai, “Tel Aviv: The City of the Future,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, https://www.emanuelnyc.org/event/virtual-streicker-live-from-israel-with-mayor-ron-huldai/
10 am Jan Uhrbach, “The Torah’s Take on Happiness,” Jewish Theological Seminary, http://www.jtsa.edu/the-torah%E2%80%99s-take-on-happiness
10 am Michael Segal, “Innerbiblical Exegesis and the Literary Development of the Book of Daniel,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, https://ccjs.uchicago.edu/node/4/details/CAL-ff808081-751b88d2-0175-1d0a16fe-00001132eventscalendar%2540uchicago.edu
12 pm Erica Brown and Sherre Hirsch, “Take Your Soul to the Polling Place,” American Jewish University, https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XqJSTsvtTnqZ9x_ZQaM7Cg
3:30 pm Chen Bar-Itzhak, “Nostalgia for the British Mandate in Contemporary Israeli Culture,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, https://ccjs.uchicago.edu/node/4/details/CAL-ff808081-751b88d2-0175-1cf70d03-0000102feventscalendar%2540uchicago.edu
4:30 pm Shari Lowin, “Moses in the Qu’ran and the Early Muslim Isra’iliyyat,” Wiesel Center of Jewish Studies, Boston University, https://trusted.bu.edu/s/1759/2-bu/19/1col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=9613&content_id=11007
Tuesday, November 3
8 am Andrea Cooper, “Jewish Studies Today,” Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina, https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/schochet-lecture-jewish-studies-today/
8:30 am Ivan Nick, “How the Nazis Used Names to Spawn the Holocaust,” Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, York University, https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IqithrSnQY21-VrUvOT1xg
12 pm Hanna Kern, “The Legacy of Theresienstadt,” Holocaust Center for Humanity, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdE9InwYk3OZ2rhN1I9PauXlvONn_1MYx63k8MnIpM0gOdrDg/viewform
3 pm Amy-Jill Levine, “The Creation: Genesis 1-3: How Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, https://streicker.nyc/current-season/fall-2020/the-creation
4 pm Naomi Sokoloff, “Jewish Dogs and the Nazi Beast: Animal Studies and Holocaust Literature,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/2020-course-lecture-series-lessons-not-learned-from-the-holocaust/?#november3/
Wednesday, November 4
7 am Carol Meyers, “The Ancient Gender Gap: The Bible, Archeology, and Israelite Women,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, https://streicker-center.ticketleap.com/dr-carol-meyers-the-ancient-gender-gap/dates/Nov-04-2020_at_1000AM
9 am Moshe Rosman and Elisheva Carlebach, “Jewish Gender Under Review: Early Modern Ambivalence,” Jewish Studies, Fordham University, https://www.fordham.edu/info/24992/jewish_studies_events
10 am Myriam Moscona, “Why I Love Ladino,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas-Austin, https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqfu2qqD8uEtU1wWQdxFlA_YL3VgZ_UGER
11am Miriam Goldstein, “How Judeo-Arabic Culture Shaped Judaism as We Know It,” British Friends of the Hebrew University, https://www.afhu.org/event/how-judeo-arabic-literature-and-culture-shaped-judaism-as-we-know-it/
12 pm Elai Retting, “Peace Pipelines or Resource Wars: Israeli Gas Wars in the Mediterranean Sea,” Jewish Studies, Sonoma State University, https://sonomastate.zoom.us/meeting/84876277327
Thursday, November 5
10 am and 4:30 pm Roni Mikel Arieli, “Reading the Diary of Anne Frank on Robben Island,” Holocaust Museum Houston, https://9368a.blackbaudhosting.com/9368a/Virtual-Lecture–QA–Reading-the-Diary-of-Anne-Frank-on-Robben-Island-with-Dr-Roni-Mikel-Arieli
10 am Nir Hod and Rotem Rozental, “The Times We Live in Are So Poetic,” American Jewish University, https://tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=9c649dadb99d3bb31a757697df2fffaf&t=tix&vqitq=0fc6df1c-5daf-427f-847d-28bf05c5f179&vqitp=f7892e99-9c91-44b7-b91b-a59846993f2c&vqitts=1603167790&vqitc=vendini&vqite=itl&vqitrt=Safetynet&vqith=d96958e7c5ada494063aeadd6325b8ec
10 am Anna Schultz, “Bene Israel Kirtan as Sonic Translation, 1880-1955,” Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin, https://southasia.wisc.edu/2020-spring-lecture-series/anna-schultz/
11:30 am Dorian Bell, “Co-optations of the Anti-racism by the French and American Right,” Wellesley College, https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkfuGhpjkjEt1ZmKFSe33Zt0pTHCFY6vv_
12 pm Chana Kronfeld, “The Scholar as Translator,” Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, https://forms.gle/uK5FEVE4PaWrrbRa8
12:30 pm Marc Michael Epstein, “The Dybbuk,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://occsp.net/current-online-events/
1 pm Joan Halperin, “Sousa Mendes and the Refugees of World War II,” Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study, Drew University, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegjpENYrTykd8JiMnJd9GBuY0xhNXe1xDrwp5lcSSHcrEKrA/viewform
1:30 pm Jon Schwartz, “This Is Our Home, It is Not for Sale (film),” Program in Jewish Studies, Rice University, https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/124280
2 pm Suzanne Brown-Fleming, “The Church Is Not Afraid of History: The Opening of the Vatican Archives,” Center for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University, cjc2020brownfleming.eventbrite.com
3 pm Ayala Fader, “Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age,” Graduate Center of the City University of New York, https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYudOyprjIvH9x4lNxyxTHi4BRKMidqub7F
4 pm Miriam Udel, “Yiddish Children’s Literature and the Jewish Twentieth Century,” Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, Michigan State University, https://jsp.msu.edu/#event|6572|5389
4 pm Christa Whitney, “Coming to America: Jewish Immigrant Stories of Encounter and Adaptation,” Yiddish Book Center, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8Nztd0CQR_SUcnhbfvK-YQ?utm_source=weeklyreader&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyreader
5 pm Lawrence Baron, “Kristallnacht on Film: From Reportage to Reenactment,1938-1988,” Holocaust Living History Workshop, University of California-San Diego, https://ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vfRixj5sSgSsGyFGwNvR3w
5 pm Alison Lefkovitz, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Legal Feminism,” Jewish Women’s Archive, https://jwa.org/teach/online-history-courses
Friday, November 6
9 am Mikhal Dekel, “The Teheran Children,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University,
10 am Chris Yogerst, “Patriotic Propaganda: Hollywood, Anti-Nazism, and the U.S. Senate in 1941,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha, https://uwm.edu/waukesha/event/lectures-and-fine-arts-patriotic-propaganda/
11 am Rebecca Carter-Chand, “The Role of Churches in Nazi Germany and Legacies of Antisemitism to be Explored,” Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College, https://ramapo.webex.com/ramapo/onstage/g.php?MTID=e9cf3a84da63f3ed59d50b315a6bde165
12 pm Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochav, “Beyond the Photo Archive: Reconstructing the Concerns of Roman Vishniac,” Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California-Berkeley, https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SsYvGe9ZRce6ff1j3tvq3Q
Saturday, November 7
10 am Kaleigh Bangor, “Hannah Arendt on Antisemitism,” Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies, University of Oklahoma, https://www.ou.edu/cas/judaicstudies/events
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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.