SAN DIEGO — Following are Jewish programs of interest to lay and academic audiences that may be accessed via the Internet, January 3rrd through 9th. They are listed in Pacific Standard Time.
Sunday, January 3
1 pm “The Jewish James Bond and Other Heroes of Operation Zebra,” Sousa-Mendes Foundation, http://sousamendesfoundation.org/event/virtual-program-the-jewish-james-bond-and-other-heroes/
4 pm (Introduction to a month of lectures running through January 31: Ariel Burger, “The Jewish Love Affair with Stories,” Orange County Community Scholar Program, https://mailchi.mp/755a158a1a22/csp-zoom-programs-week-of-april-5-4572144?fbclid=IwAR0Ae9V9K3cj4JqC4VAR-yz0YbfALQzH0W3gassYOwCJ5rGbHbGIoT5ydX4
Monday, January 4
9 am Shirley Graetz, “Conrad Schick: The Most Famous Protestant Who Built Jerusalem in the 19th Century,” Reading Room of the National Library of Israel, Conrad Schick (typeform.com)
10 am Grigory Yavlinsky and Jonathan Brent, “Modern Russia and the Putin System,” YIVO, https://www.yivo.org/WP2021-Keynote
1 pm Lina Insana and Kate Lukaszewicz, “Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz,” Jewish Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, https://classroomswithoutborders.org/events/rsvp.php?360
Tuesday, January 5
8 am-11 am (Jan.7, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21) “What Is the Mishnah: An International Zoom Workshop,” Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, https://nelc.fas.harvard.edu/event/what-mishnah-international-zoom-workshop-sponsored-harvard-university
11 am Marion Blumenthal Lazan, “A Survivor’s Liberation Experience,” Echoes and Reflections, https://info.echoesandreflections.org/a-survivors-liberation-experience-marion-blumenthal-lazan
12 pm David Laskin, “Three Roads: How One Family Embodied the Sweep of the 20th Century,” Holocaust Center for Humanity, https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/programs-events/upcoming-events
1:30 pm William Novak, “What’s So Funny about Jewish Humor,” Moment Magazine, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DJ3lncAVQIeCZlAL2xrurw
4 pm Zalmen Mlotek and Eva Fogelman, “Transforming Moments,” Museum of Jewish Heritage and Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, https://mjhnyc.org/events/transforming-moments-with-eva-fogelman-and-zalmen-mlotek/
Wednesday, January 6
9:30 am Yehuda Kurtzer and Nancy Sinkoff, “From Left to Right…and Everything in Between: The Importance of Jewish Political Diversity,” Shalom Hartman Institute, Natan Fund, and Jewish Book Council, https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/from-left-to-rightand-everything-in-between-the-importance-of-jewish-political-diversity
10 am Elliot Dorff and Yael Weinstein, “Jewish Medical Ethics Made Accessible,” American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/byachad-together/events/Jewish-Medical-Ethics-Made-Accessible
Thursday, January 7
11 am Judith Koeppel Steel and Jacqueline Smith, “Surviving Stories,” Museum of Jewish Heritage, https://mjhnyc.org/events/stories-survive-judith-koeppel-steel/
12 pm Steve Leder, “Transform Your Greatest Fears into Your Greatest Gifts, American Jewish University, https://www.aju.edu/byachad-together/events/Transform-Your-Greatest-Fears-into-Your-Greatest-Gifts
12 pm Sara Tsifroni, Ancho Gosh, Zouheir Takhaukho, Yair Auron, and Avi Ben-Hur, “Beslaney: Memories,” Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center and Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, https://www.maltzmuseum.org/event/film-discussion-beslaney-memories/
4 pm Philip Nord, “France and Remembering and Forgetting the Holocaust in the Shaping of Its Memorials,” American Historical Association, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NP4eAFGIR0mJdggoOj4H2w
4 pm Sebastian Schulman, “The Extraordinary Voyages of the Yiddish Jules Verne, Sunday,” Yiddish Book Center and Jewish Museum of Maryland, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_khPPRVQZTluK5285xmoZ_Q?utm_source=weeklyreader&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyreader
5 pm Ruth Messinger, “Jewish Work for Social Justice and Racial Equality: Our Responsibility to Engage,” Jewish Museum Milwaukee, https://app.mobilecause.com/f/2zb2/n?vid=f9ubj
5 pm Tristan Newman, “Zionism for Generation Z: Drawing from Jewish Ethics,” Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, University of Nebraska-Omaha, https://unomaha.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SWwbwLFmSp6bM5q8zz1PoQ
Friday, January 8
8 am Rowan Dorin, Karice Doten-Snitker, and E.M. Rose, “Why Did Medieval Europe Expel Its Jews?” American Historical Association, https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97684386779?pwd=TFA1MzdMUEdSY3AwYnR5SEptb2x6QT09
10 am Barbara Milewski, “Poetry of Psychological Resistance at Auschwitz: The Words of Krystyna Zywulska,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, https://18161.blackbaudhosting.com/18161/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=7d7e4eb3-c402-4da1-a553-663e0ae7bfae
Saturday January 9
6 pm Yidlife Crisis, “Virtually Jewish,” JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center, https://watch.eventive.org/jaamm/play/5f6b8f499ad1d84d018a2eb6
7 pm Jeffrey Demsky,“Ahchoo! Ahchoo! Let’s Blame the Jews: Disease Tropes in Covid-19 Cartoons and Memes,” Temple Emanu-El-San Diego, https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/82718753185
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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.
Can you put me on the list to find out about the weekly online classes like these?
Thanks