By Laurie Baron, Ph.D SAN DIEGO
Sunday, August 30
9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. “A Festival of Jewish Ideas,” Limmud North America.
11 a.m. Laura Arnold Leibman, “The Art of the Jewish Family,” Sephardic World.
1 p.m. “Korone un der nayer ‘Normal,’” [Corona and the New Normal], a Yiddish play with English translation, Yiddish Arts and Academic Association of North America, For more information, contact jana@yaaana.com
1 p.m. Louise Borden and Sheila Abranches Pierce, “The Journey that Saved Curious George,” Mendes Sousa Foundation.
2:30 p.m. Gary Zola, Samuel Gruber, and Rachel Barnett, “City Jews, Country Jews: South Carolina Synagogues from 1749 to the Present.”
6:30 p.m. Marra B. Gad, “The Color of Love: The Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl,” Beth Israel of San Diego.
Monday, August 31
8:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m. “Crimea in the Jewish Imagination: A Geography on the Outside Conference,” University of California, San Diego.
10 a.m. Levi Cooper, “Rabbinic Responses to Pandemics: Charity Principal,” Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.
11 a.m. Ronald Robboy, “Yidl mitn fidl, a close reading of a canonic Yiddish film score,” The Promiscuous World of Jewish Music Series, Zoom Meeting ID: 967 8901 9038, Password: 156230 (Donations accepted but not required paypal.me/JoshuaHorowitzCA).
3:30 p.m. “Blue Skies over New York: An Irving Berlin Benefit Concert,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.”
5 p.m. Burton L. Visotzky, “Isaac Unbound: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Read the Offering of Abraham’s Beloved Son,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
Tuesday, September 1
8:30 a.m. -12 p.m. “Crimea in the Jewish Imagination: A Geography on the Outside Conference,” University of California, San Diego.
11 a.m. Rosie Arroyo, Julie Bank, Michael Lawson, and Nancy Yap, “Racism, Prejudice, and Antisemitism,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
11 a.m. Naomi Patz, Janice Rothschild Blumberg, Pat Bloom, and Jeanne Danziger, “Married to a Rabbi,” Breman Museum, Southern Jewish Historical Society, and Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life.
11:30 a.m. Dalia Dassa Kaye and Shira Efron, “Israel and Iran: Is Further Conflict Innevitable?” American Friends of Hebrew University-Western Region Alumni.
12 p.m. Faris Casell, “The Unanswered Letter,” American Jewish University.
4 p.m. David Shneer and Yigal Kotler, “Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
5 p.m. Sanford Horwitt, “Mikva! Democracy is a Verb,” Jewish Museum of Milwaukee.
Wednesday, September 2
12 p.m. Lawrence Douglas, “Law as the Instrument of Mass Crimes: The Legal System under the Third Reich,” Holocaust Center for Humanity.
2:30 p.m. Jonathan Wittenberg, “Walking with the Light from Frankfurt to Finchley,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
3:30 p.m. Victoria Aarons, “Holocaust Graphic Narratives,” Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio.
4:30 p.m. Jack Fairweather, “The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz,” Holocaust Museum Houston.
Thursday, September 3
9:30 a.m. Ori Shavit, “Where’s the Beef? Exploring Veganism in Israel & Judaism,” American Jewish University.
12 p.m. Michael Doron, “US Iran Relations: Past, Present, and Future,” American Jewish University.
4 p.m. Michael Oren, “A Master Class in Israeli Politics,” 92nd Street Y.
4 p.m. Josh ‘Socalled’ Dolgin, “Multimedia Presentation,” Yiddish Book Center.
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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. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com
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