Sunday, September 13
7 a.m. David Lowe, “Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle Against Racial and Religious Discrimination,” Breman Museum.
9 a.m. Michael Avera Samuel, “The Unending Journey (of Ethiopian Jews) to the Dream of Being Part of Israeli Society: Challenges and Successes,” Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel of Michigan State University. Meeting ID: 997 6844 1097 | Passcode: 914221
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. “Yiddish Fest,” Yiddish Initiative.
10 a.m. Israel Meir Lau, “Fireside Chat with Malcolm Hoenlein,” March of the Living.
10:30 a.m. Michal Bar-Asher Siegel, “When a Heretic Walks into the Study House: Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity,” Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies.
11 a.m. Harmen Snel, “The Amsterdam Notarial Archives,” Sephardic World.
11:30 a.m. Na’ama Shik, “Embracing Life in the Aftermath of the Holocaust,” Yad Vashem.
12 p.m. Genie Milgrom, “From the Spanish Inquisition to the Present: A Search for Jewish Roots” Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas-Dallas.
12 p.m. Marc Dollinger, “Black Power and Jewish Politics,” Central Valley Holocaust Educator’s Network.
Monday, September 14
9 a.m. “The Jews Are Coming to Brandeis: A Conversation with the Creators of Israel’s Hit Satire Series,” Schusterman Center for Israel Studies of Brandeis University.
1 p.m. Laura Seltzer-Duny and Don Hordes, “Nobody Wants Us (Film about the SS Quanza)” Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust Humanity Center.
2:30 p.m. Max Lazar, “Swastikas on Jacob Schiff-Strasse: The Peculiar History of Jewish Street Names in Frankfurt am Main, 1872-1938,” Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.
3 p.m. Sara Ronis, “Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in the Babylonian Talmud,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies of the University of Texas.
4 p.m. Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert, “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish,” Jewish Public Library.
6 p.m. Nan Goodman, “Jewish Messianic Heresy and the Right to Privacy: Louis Brandeis and the Sabbatian Origins of American Legal Doctrine,” Program in Jewish Studies-University of Colorado.
Tuesday, September 15
8 a.m. Linda Burghardt, “Love, Laughter, and Latkes: The Golden Age of the Catskills,” Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.
9 a.m. Eviatar Mantania, “From Checkpoint to Waze: Israel as a Cyber Tiger,” Center for Jewish Civilization-Georgetown University.
5 p.m. Chaim Seidler-Feller, “But Where is the Lamb for the Offering?” Silence of the Lamb-The Akedah (Binding of Isaac) Dilemma: Between Submission and Resistance,” Hillel of UCLA.
Wednesday, September 16
10 a.m. Sarah Aroeste, “Lunchtime Ladino Concert,” National Museum of American Jewish History.
12 p.m. Marilyn Mayo and Melanie Nezer, “Uncertain Times, Certain Fear: Antisemitism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the Covid-19 Era,” HIAS.
2 p.m. Clémence Boulouque and Shaul Magid, “Another Modernity:Elia Benamozeh’s Jewish Universalism,” Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies of Columbia University.
5 p.m. Joshua Furman, “Black-Jewish Relations in the Lone Star State,” Program in Jewish Studies, Rice University.
Thursday, September 17
9 a.m. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimlett, “Polin Museum of the History of the Jews,” Reading Room of the National Library of Israel.
6 p.m. Arkadij Khaet Discussing his film Masel Tov Cocktail, Jewish Film Institute.
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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