Compiled by Laurie Baron, Ph.D
Sunday, August 9
10:30 a.m. “Beyle 100: Celebrating a Century of the Yiddish Songs, Poetry, and Artistic Vision of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman,” YIVO.
11 a.m. Shuli Elisheva, “Daring to Live as a Woman: The Yiddish Poetry of a Closeted Trans Woman,” Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America.
11 a.m.Keith and Nancy Atkinson, “The Nunes Carvalho – From Portugal to the Wild West,” Sephardic World.
12 p.m. (Every Sunday through August 23). Lawrence Schiffman, “The Dead Sea Scrolls: New Perspectives on the Bible, Judaism, and Christianity,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
1 p.m. Yvette Manessis Corporon, “Something Beautiful Happened: Rescue on a Greek Island,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.
Monday, August 10
10 a.m. Shalom Sabar, “East European Art in Israel,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
3:30 p.m., Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk, “Is There Any Light Left at the End of the Middle East Peace Tunnel,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
Tuesday, August 11
10 a.m. Ron Wolfson, Lydia Medwin, and Nicole Auerbach, “Were We Wrong? Jewish Institutions Re-Think Connections,” American Jewish University.
11 a.m. Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m. Ellen Kennedy, “Genocide Today: The Uyghurs in China,” Holocaust Center for Humanity.
12:30 p.m. Wendy Zierler, “Sayed Kashua,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
1 p.m. Sarah Glover and Michael Simonson, “Snapshots of a Life: Photographs by Emil Carl Grossman,” Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute.
3 p.m. Mark Winston Griffin and Max Freedman, “Modern Lessons from the 1968 Ocean Hill-Brownsville Teacher Strikes,” Facing History and Ourselves.
5 p.m. Charlotte Decoster, “The Bosnian Genocide,” Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
Wednesday, August 12
6:30 a.m. Ferne Pearlstein, “How Humor Helped Heal the Pain of the Holocaust,” US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
11:30 a.m. The Wandering Muse (Film about Contemporary Jewish Music), Jewish Music Institute.
1 p.m. Sue Eisenfeld, “Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South,” Center for Jewish History and National Museum of American Jewish History.
4 p.m. James Waller, “Implications of Covid-19 for Atrocity Prevention,” Holocaust Museum Houston.
Thursday, August 13
7:30 a.m. (every Thursday through August 27) Benjamin Gampel, “The History of the Sephardic Jews,” 92nd Street Y.
11 a.m. Fran Malkin, Debbie Schonberger-Pierce, and Judy Maltz, “No. 4 Street of Our Lady,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m. Steven Zipperstein, “Separating Fact from Fiction: Clarifying the Misunderstood Riot of Kishinev,” American Jewish University.
12:30 p.m. Rafi Zarum, “Jewish Readings of Modern Movies: James Bond –Shaken and Stirred,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
4 p.m. David Mazower and Steven Payne, “Bertha Kling’s Jewish Bronx Neighborhood,” Yiddish Book Center.
5 p.m. Marion Kaplan, “Bertha Pappenheim,” Jewish Women’s Archive.
5 p.m. Stephen Edwards, “Syndrome K,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
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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