Sunday, July 26
7 a.m. David Bernstein, “On the Eve of Destruction: Erev 9 b’Av in the Warsaw Ghetto and Operation Reinhard,” Pardes Institute.
11 a.m. Robert Alter, “The Challenge of Translating the Bible,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
11 a.m. Michael Waas, “Jewish Heritage and Identity in the Ottoman Empire,” Sephardic World.
11 a.m. Kathi Diamant, “Kafka’s Last Love,” Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America,
1 p.m. Judy Kreith, Marion Finkels Kreith, and Robin Truesdale, “Cuba’s Forgotten Jewels,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.
Monday, July 27
10 a.m. Amy Kalmanofsky, “Israel’s Prophets as Innovators during Times of Crisis,” Jewish Theological Seminary.”
11 a.m. Deborah Hertz, “From the Shtetl to the Barricades: How Jewish Women Become Politically Involved in Russia and Beyond,” Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America.
12 p.m. Michael Berenbaum, “Holocaust Reflections: The Jewish History That Could Have Been,” Whizen Center of American Jewish University.
4 p.m. Josh Meyers and Ari Fertig, “The People’s Republic of Yiddish: Jewish Labor Movements through the Ages,” The Vilna Shul.
4 p.m. Rachel Eskin Fisher, “Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent,” Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.
Tuesday, July 28
10 a.m. Annie Polland and Melanie Meyers, “Emma Lazarus’ Red Manuscript,” American Jewish Historical Society.
10 a.m. Reuven Brand, “Spiritual Resilience in the Ghetto,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, https://ilholocaustmuseum.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocOGtpjsiGNDqqqFnFUqgAvcyzQp4lgPf
11 a.m. Mikhal Dekel, “Tehran Children,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m. David Marwell and Michael Berenbaum, “Holocaust Reflections: How to Grapple with Evil,” Whizen Center of American Jewish University.
12:30 p.m. Wendy Zierler, “Great Contemporary Israeli Writers: Savyon Liebrecht,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Wednesday, July 29
9 a.m. Richard Cohn, “Curating Cantorial Education: Breadth and Depth in Jewish Musical Life” Hebrew Union College.
11 a.m. “Beyle: The Artist and Her Legacy (movie),” Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America.
2 p.m. Bernhard Henri-Lévy in conversation with Thomas Friedman, Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
5:30 p.m. Ben Fate Verlaise and Robert Verlaise, “American Indian Boarding Schools and Intergenerational Trauma,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
6:30 p.m. Edward Hershey, “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” Mittelman Jewish Community Center and Oregon Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center.
Thursday, July 30
11 a.m. Joe Lovett, “Children of the Inquisition,” Museum of Jewish Heritage and American Sephardi Federation.
4 p.m. Hankus Netsky, “Klezmer Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia,” Yiddish Book Center.
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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