Compiled by Laurie Baron, Ph.D
SAN DIEGO — All times are Pacific Daylight Time.
Sunday, October 18
8 am Luca Ascoli, “The Jews of Italy,” Sephardic World.
8 am Yevilah McCoy, “Keynote Address,” Jewish Coalition for Racial Equity Virtual Conference.
8 am Moshe Halbertal and Jonathan Sacks, “Strange New World- Conversations in Times of Crisis- Religious Response to Crisis: Reflections from Jewish Tradition,” Reading Room, National Library of Israel.
10 am Ruth Calderon, “The Renaissance of Israeli Judaism,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
10 am Samuel Tetteh, Eli Courante and Gabrielle Zilkha, “Jews in Ghana?” Kulanu.
11 am Bonnie Harris and Noel Izon, “An Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines,” University of the Philippines Alumni Association.
11 am Yehonatan Indursky: “The Making of Shtisel” Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh.
12 pm Amy Kerner, “Bridge to Nowhere: Yiddish in Argentina from the Holocaust to the Dirty War,” Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas, Dallas.
1 pm Amos Guiora, Victoria Barnett, and Mordecai Paldiel, “The Bystander’s Choice,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.
3 pm Jessica Chaffin, Jena Friedman, Lynn Harris, Michaela Watkins,and Tony Michels, “If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends: Jews Making Trouble, Jews Making Comedy,” Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA and Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin.
6 pm Marc Dollinger, “Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance of the 1960s” Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, University of Arizona.
Monday, October 19
2 am David Fachler, Milton Shain, Sara Hirschhorn , Asher Lubotzky, Abby Gondek, and Jonathan Judaken, “Jews in South Africa: New Directions in Research: South African Jewish Orthodoxies,” Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London.
8:30 am Dalia Rabin, Itamar Rabinovich, Dennis Ross, and Guy Ziv, “25 Years: Israel-US Relations Since Rabin,” Center for Israel Studies, American University.
9 am Raquel Ukeles, “Tolstoy, the Imam from Dagestan, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe,” Reading Room, National Library of Israel.
9:30 am Ashager Arora, “BLM and Social Justice Movements in Israel,” Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois.
10 am Stefanie Siegmund, “Gifts of Wisdom: The Historical Traditions and Values of the Ethical Will.”
10 am Michael Freund, “Bringing the Lost Tribes Back to Israel,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
10 am Elai Rettig, “Finding a ‘Warm Jew:’ Israel’s Use of the Jewish Diaspora as a Foreign Policy Tool,” Israel Center, Washington University.
10 am Nancy Sinkoff, “From Left to Right: Lucy Dawidowicz and the Politics of Jewish History,” Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Colombia University.
10:30 am Amos Goldberg, “The Holocaust and the Nakba,” Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University.
1 pm Ashager Arora, “Roots and Routes: History and Heritage of Ethiopian Jews and Cultural Diversity in Israel,” Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois.
1 pm David Koffman,“Unsettling Canadian Ethnic History: Jewish-Indigenous Encounters in Canada” Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto.
1 pm Danny Ben-Moshe, “Precious Life: Discussion of Film,” American Jewish University.
2 pm Rivka Cohen, Naima Hirsch, Alona Weimer, Jordyn Kaufman, and Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, “Monologues from the Makom: Intertwined Narratives of Sexuality, Gender, Body Image, and Jewish Identity,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
2 pm Assucena Assucena and Lilyth Ester Grove, “Jewish Trans Brazil: Identity, Activism, and Music,” Jewish Studies Program, Cornell University.
2 pm Stephen Smith, Clara Citron, Lina Srivastava, and Jane Wells, “Nazi Concentration Camps: 75 Years Later,” USC Shoah Foundation,
2:30 pm Yehuda Kurtzer, “Judaism, Citizenship, and Democracy,” Shalom Hartman Institute.
4 pm David Kraemer, “Judaism’s Hidden Books: The Apocrypha,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
4 pm Danny Ben-Moshe, “Israeli State and Society through the Documentary Lens: Precious Life,” American Jewish University.
4 pm Pamela Barmash, “What Do You Need to Know about the Bible and Politics to Understand American Culture,” Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University.
4 pm Kenneth Wald, “Religion in the 2020 Elections,” Center for Jewish Studies, Eastern Michigan University.
Tuesday October 20
9 am Aviya Kushner, “Translating the Sacred Word,” Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan.
9 am Devi Mays, “Forging Ties, Forging Passports, Migration, and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora,” Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University.
9:30 am Shayna Weiss, “When Heroes Fly to Netflix: Israeli Traumas and Its International Audience,” Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, College of Charleston.
10 am Burton Visotzky and Michael Tilly, “Judaism: A New Compendium,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
11 am Shoshana Cohen, “Gender Revolutions: Shifting Notions of Sexuality from the Rabbis to Millennials.”
12 pm Steven Carr, “Atrocity Pictures: Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the Hollywood Studio System Before 1948,” Holocaust Center for Humanity
12 pm Yael Teff-Seker, “Using Embodies Interviews to Understand Nature Experiences,” Jewish Studies Program and Departments of Religious Studies and Sociology, University of California- Davis.
1 pm Ysoscher Katz, “Solomonic Justice: Is Dual Motherhood a Halakhic Possibility,” Valley Beit Midrash.
2 pm Michael Berenbaum, “Crisis of Faith: God and the Holocaust,” American Jewish University.
3 pm Amy-Jill Levine, “The Suffering Servant: Jewish and Christian Readings of Isaiah 52:14-53:12,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
4 pm Jordanna Gessler and Christie Jovanovic, “Inside the (Acid-Free) Box: Exploring the Rescued Art of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly,” Holocaust Museum LA.
4 pm Nicholas P. Barr, “Racism, Antisemitism, and the Lines of Solidarity,” Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington.
4 pm Peter Rubinstein, Georgette Bennett, Katharine Henderson, and Daisy Khan, “Confronting Hate in a Divisive Era,” 92nd Street Y,
4:30 pm (8 part series on every subsequent Tuesday) Rachel Greenblatt, “Women Wrote: Biblical Beginnings to Late Medieval Times,” Vilna Shul.
4:30 pm Keren McGuinity, “#MeToo and American Jewish Life,” Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
5 pm Keith Ellison, Josh Malina, Randi Weingarten, and Noa, “Yitzhak Rabin 25-Year Memorial Event,” Americans for Peace Now,
5 pm Miriam Udel, “Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature,” Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University.
5 pm Marjorie Agosin, Samuel Shats, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Maria Duran, “Braided Memories: A Journey of Words and Photographs,” Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
6 pm Deborah Riley Draper, “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice (film),” Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Chapman University.
7:30 pm Bradley Artson, “And on that Day: Revelation and Redemption in Process Theology,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Wednesday, October 21
7 am Israel Finkelstein, “Reconstructing the History of Ancient Israel: The Bible vs. Archeology,” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
9 am Kerry Wallach, “Rahel Szalit-Marcus, a Jewish Artist in Berlin and Paris” Judaic Studies Program, Yale University.
10 am Kenneth Hoffman and Anna Tucker, “The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience,” Program in Jewish Studies, Rice University.
10 am Scott Daniel Greene, “Americans and the Holocaust,” Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies.
11 am Yifat Bitton, Natan Sachs, and Liat Schlesinger, “Covid-19 and Democracy in Israel,” Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. University of Chicago.
11 am Steve King, “Jews in Baseball: Beyond Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax,” Marlene Meyerson JCC.
12 pm Shany Mor, “The Four Overlapping Consensuses of Israeli Democracy,” Jewish Studies, Sonoma State University.
12 pm Rachelle Grossman, “The Most Mexican of Us All: Yiddish Poetics in Modern Mexico,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of California-Irvine.
2 pm Monica Black, Ulrike Weckel, Alexander Geppert, and Natalie Scholtz, “A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany,” Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
3 pm Jonathan Sarna, “Lincoln and the Jews,” Jewish Studies Program and Department of History, Fresno State University.
4 pm Deborah Lipstadt, “Antisemitism on College Campuses,” Washington and Lee University Hillel.
4 pm Jodi Eichler-Levine, “Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community,” Berman Center for Jewish Studies, Lehigh University.
4 pm Amelia Glaser, “Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poets and Social Justice,” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida.
4:30 pm Berel Lang, “Against the Lachrymose Jewish View of History,” Center for Jewish Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut.
6:30 pm Clarence Jones, “Racism, Antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine,” Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, University of San Francisco.
Thursday, October 22
10 am Melia Hellner-Eshed, “David and the Tehom,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
10 am “Leftists on Left-Wing Zionism,” Yivo.
10 am Pinchas Giller, “The Intersection of Renaissance Art and the Kabbalah,” American Jewish University.
10 am Paula Sanders, “From Dependence to Autonomy: Jewish Women’s Lives in Medieval Egypt,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
10 am Daniel B. Schwartz, “The ‘Ghetto’ in Jewish History,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
11 am Ibrahim Dalalsha and Ehud Yaari, “New Relations, New Policies: The Challenges Facing Palestinians and Israelis,” Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA.
12 pm Roman Israelski and Avi Ben Hur “The Day I Met Hitler” (film), Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
1 pm Pinchas Giller, “The Evolution of Kabbalah.”
2 pm Elana Stein Hain, Avi Helfand, and Rivka Press Schwartz, “Orthodox Communities and American Politics,” Shalom Hartman Institute.
3 pm Bernie Farber, Marc-Allain Mallet, and Karen Shai, “From Hate to Hope in the Digital Age,” Atlantic Human Rights Center, St. Thomas University.
4:30 pm Sara Halpern, “The American Joint Distribution Committee to the Rescue in Shanghai, 1941-1951,” Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute.
4:30 pm David Sandmel, “Loving the Jews: Philosemitism and Judaizing in Contemporary Christianity” Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and Center for Catholic Studies, Fairfield University.
5 pm Joyce Antler, “Jewish Feminism,” Jewish Women’s Archive.
6 pm Rhona Seidelman, “Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate,” Jewish Studies Program, University of Colorado.
Friday, October 23
Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, [23(day), 24 (night), 25 (day and night]
9 am Tony Kushner and Aimee Bunting, “The Co-Present in Holocaust Memory,” Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University.
11 am Julie Gottlieb, “British Fascist Women, the Anti-War Campaign, and Antisemitism,” Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College.
12 pm Federico Finchelstein and Susan Neiman, “Fascism, Racism, and Historical Analogy: Perspectives from the Past and Present,” Max Kade Center for Austrian -German Studies-Swiss Studies, Shoah Foundation for Advanced Genocide Research, and Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, University of Southern California.
12 pm Kerry Whigham and Aida Sehovic, “Artivism: The Intersection of Art, Human Rights, And The Prevention Of Genocide,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Raritan Valley Community College.
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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.
Nice work, Dr. Baron. Formidable undertaking!