Sunday, Sept. 6
7 a.m. Jeremy Leigh, “Trees Have Roots, Jews Have Legs: On Jews and Their Journeys,” The Reading Room-National Library of Israel.
11 a.m. Randy Schoenberg, Jarett Ross, and Jacob Marrache, “Geni.com: Good for the Sephardim?” Sephardic World.
12 p.m. Jodi Magness, “New Discoveries in the Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
1 p.m. Manli Ho and Mordecai Paldiel, “Destination Shanghai,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.
Monday, Sept. 7
9 a.m. Marcella Ansaldi and Yoel Finkelman, “The Jewish Museum of Venice,” The Reading Room, National Library of Israel.
11 a.m. – 7 p.m. “Yiddish Fest,” Yiddish Initiative,
Tuesday, Sept. 8
10 a.m. Jacob Goldberg, “Historic Mid-East Realignment: Aggressive Iran and Turkey Bring Arab States and Israel Together,” San Diego Center for Jewish Culture.
2 p.m. Jordan Reimer, “Beyond the UAE: Israel’s Strategic Relations with the Arab World,” American Jewish University.
4 p.m. Rachel Gordan, Gavriel Rosenfeld, Brett Ashley Kaplan, Jack Kugelmass, and Norman Goda, “The Plot Against America: Antisemitism, Jewish Anxiety, and Counterfactuals,” Center for Jewish Studies of University of Florida.
4 p.m. David Arond, Abraham Foxman, and Barra Grant, “Bess Myerson: The One and Only Jewish Miss America,” Museum of Jewish Heritage,
4:30 p.m. Janet Krasner Aronson and Leonard Saxe, “Covid-19 and Jewish Community Response,” Cohen Center for Jewish Studies of Brandeis University.
5 p.m. Charlotte Decoster, “Health Professionals during the Holocaust,” Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
5 p.m. Eva Mroczek, “Myths of Meritocracy and the Hebrew Bible,” Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University,
7 p.m. Silvia Foti, Grant Gochin, Ruta Vanagate, Steven Windmueller, and Efraim Zuroff, “Holocaust Distortion: Massacre of Memory,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust,
Wednesday, Sept. 9
9 a.m. – 7 p.m.“Yiddish Fest,” Yiddish Initiative.
11 a.m. Mitch Kreitenberg, “Finding a Needle in a Haystack: The Auschwitz Album,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
11 a.m. Leah Koenig, Jeffrey Joskowitz, and Michael Twitty, “Ashkenazi Cuisine: Identity, Memory, and Culture,” Taube Jewish Heritage Tours.
12 p.m. Rita Mayer Jardim, “Portuguese Citizenship: Reconnecting with Your Sephardic Iberian Ancestors,” Center for Jewish History.
1 p.m. Dennis Ross, “Israel-Emirati Normalization and Its Implications for the Middle East,” Center for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University.
4 p.m. Andre Villeneuva, “From Rivalry to Reconciliation: The Catholic Church and the Jewish People,” Center for Jewish Studies of Eastern Michigan University.
4 p.m. Libby Copeland, “The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are,” Milwaukee Jewish Museum.
4 p.m. Beth Ricanati, “Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
5 p.m. Cleve Tinsley IV, “Blacks and Jews: Re-Visiting Alliances and Arguments in Light of Recent Uprisings for Racial Justice,” Program in Jewish Studies-Rice University.
Thursday, Sept. 10
7 a.m. Susan Neiman, “Learning From The Germans Race and the Memory of Evil,” Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Raritan Valley Community College.
8 a.m. Kostek Gebert, “The Shoah and Polish-Jewish Relations: History and Politics of Memory in Present-Day Poland” Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University.
9 a.m. – 7 p.m. “Yiddish Fest,” Yiddish Initiative.
9:15 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. “How the Law Treats Antisemitism and Anti-Discrimination Reconsidered: A Conference,” University of Virginia Jewish Studies Program and Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.
10 a.m. Jacob Goldberg, “Israel and America: The Need for a New Agenda,” San Diego Center for Jewish Culture and Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center.
10 a.m. Elissa Bemporad, “Armed Resistance: The Case of the Minsk Ghetto,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
10 a.m. Pinchas Allouche and Bradley Shavit Artson, “‘Let My People Know’: Remembering Luminary Adin Steinsaltz,” American Jewish University.
11 a.m. Jonathan Sacks, John Carlson, Paul Carrese, Paul Davies, Chava Tirosh-Samuelson, “Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,” Jewish Studies-Arizona State University.
12:30 p.m. Sarah Bunin Benor, “Jewish Surnames and Name Changing Around the World,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
1 p.m. Thomas Schwartz, Jeremi Suri, Diane Kunz, and Barbara Keys, “Henry Kissinger and American Power,” National History Center and Wilson Center.
1 p.m. Lisa Leff, David Nirenberg, and Paola Tartakoff, “The Deep Roots of Modern anti-Judaism,” Jewish Studies Program and Center for Israel Studies, American University.
1 p.m. Esther Amini, “Concealed: A Jewish Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America,” Valley Beit Midrash.
1 p.m. Itamar Borochov, Elisheva Carlebach, Dara Horn, and Deborah Dash Moore, “Midwives, Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose Stories Will Become Jewish History?” Center for Jewish History.
4 p.m. Asaf Galay, “The Adventures of Saul Bellow,” Yiddish Book Center.
4 p.m. Melanie Meyer, “Jews in Space: Curator’s Talk,” Jewish Museum of Maryland.
4:30 p.m. Derek Penslar, “What Makes a Great Jewish Leader? Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism,” Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life of University of Connecticut and the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.
5 p.m. Rachel Havrelock and Rachel Mikva, “Climate Responsibility and Judaism,” Spertus Institute.
Friday, Sept. 11
9 a.m. Nancy Sinkoff, “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History,” Borns Jewish Studies Program of Indiana University.
9 a.m. Hannah Lessing, “Jewish Life in Austria After the Holocaust: An End to Remembrance or a Challenge for the Future,” Siegel Lifelong Learning Program of Case Western University and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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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