All Times Are Pacific Daylight Times
By Laurie Baron
Monday, March 29
4:30 pm Bradley Hart, “Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States” Judaic Studies and Bennett Center for Judaic Studies, Fairfield University, https://fairfield.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SdFsdbFSTUCN1Ti0YcKw6g
Tuesday, March 30
10 am Attila Novak, “Zionism: A Changing Concept in Socialist Hungary, 1948-1989,” Central European University, https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qduqgqzorG9VkXM8GS9UUaCa-6EbbjUOm
12 pm Kierra Crago-Schneider, “Liberated but Not Free: Jewish Holocaust Survivors and American Forces in Postwar Germany,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Pacific Lutheran University, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSei5niCSv4xQb613JJu14uSNaKTNDnsqgLb71cYXspJn-P_qQ/viewform
1 pm Wendy Lower, “German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields,” Classrooms Without Borders, https://classroomswithoutborders.org/wendy-lower/
1 pm George Johnson, “A Jewish Vietnam Veteran Looks Back 50 years on the Moral Journey that Changed His Life,” Moment Magazine, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kqSQ7mWIT3eeQx0Mpkrx5g
1:30 pm Steven Gold, Kirsten Fermaglich, Laura Limonic, and Gil Ribak, “Wandering Jews: Global Jewish Migration,” Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, Michigan State University, https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UtWj6t_dQdSnkiPx35kbsw
4 pm Nachman Shai, “The Fall of Liberal Zionism,” Arnold Center for Israel Studies, College of Charleston, https://cofc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUocu2oqj0uG9TaAcQc9aT7663n_0c9Mo1u
Wednesday, March 31
8 am David Barak-Gorodetsky, “Judah Magnes, American Zionism, and Bi-nationalism,” Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas-Austin, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/scjs/events/talk-judah-magnes-american-zionism-and-binationalism-by-dr-david-barak-gorodetsky
8 am Mark Koyama, “Selma Stern’s The Spirit Returneth,” Leo Baeck Institute, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lbi-book-club-vol-ix-the-spirit-returneth-by-selma-stern-tickets-144254845125
9 am David Horovitz, Yaakov Katz, and Noah Landau, “How Long Will the Next Israeli Government Last?” Center for Israel Studies, American University,
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-long-will-the-next-israeli-government-last-with-israeli-journalists-tickets-142174272075
9 am Thorin Tritter, “Vladka Meed: A Resistance Fighter,” Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fNZjKLedS2WBQOmJvxe3bg
10 am Rachel Rafael Neis, “Beyond the Image of God: The Rabbis on the Reproduction of Humans and Other Animals,” Religious Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago,
https://go.uic.edu/neis-3-31-21
11 am Oded Haklai, Menachem Hoffnung, Liron Lavi, and Dov Waxman, “Analyzing the Israeli Election: Results and Prospects,” Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA, https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9hSCnJg0TK2oxWj_3LWyLg
2 pm Amy Kerner, “Language and Trauma: Yiddish in Post-Dictatorship Argentina,” Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas-Dallas, https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvfu6vqTwrEtxgHXQrFixfBlOFn835I9Pl
4 pm Genie Milgrom, “A Primer on Crypto-Jewish Genealogy: Unraveling a Lineage,” St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society and Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, sajhs1565@gmail.com
5:30 pm Joshua Teplitsky, “Contagion, Crisis and Culture: Jewish Ritual Life in Early Modern Plague Epidemics,” Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center with support from the Program in Jewish Studies, https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/184955
6:30 pm (same time April 7, 14) Laurie Baron, “Jewish History through Film: American Jewish Women Directors from Joan Micklin-Silver to Jill (Joey) Soloway,” Temple Beth Israel of San Diego, https://cbisd.org/programs/jewish-history-through-film-american-jewish-women-directors-from-joan-micklin-silver-to-jill-soloway/2021-03-31/
Thursday, April 1
9 a.m Golan Moskowitz, “Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context,” Tulane University https://tulane.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yhH_CHfCT8qa6wysT5bydg?fbclid=IwAR23vO7aq9YlIYzq_baMhZ3Mv8Nuf2C4HlE-11SSUfK1KGdlZa5sU-9zJTI
10 am Rosie Whitehouse, “The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust,” Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center, https://www.jhbholocaust.co.za/event/the-people-on-the-beach/
4 pm Bent Frequency, “Mirrors: Extraordinary Contemporary Music By Six Jewish Women Composers,” Breman Museum and Neranenah, https://www.thebreman.org/Events/MIRRORS-Extraordinary-Contemporary-Music-By-Six-Jewish-Woman-Composers
4 pm Christine Hayes, “Where is an Authentic Jewish Life Possible? The Land of Israel Vs. the Diaspora in Classical Jewish Sources,” Yaschik Jewish Studies Center, College of Charleston, https://cofc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpc-GqqjwrEtyBSnerp1Qebe77qePJfmyL
5:30 pm Rachel Gross, “The American Matzah Ball,” Contemporary Jewish Museum, https://www.thecjm.org/programs/848
Tuesday, April 6
3 p.m. “The Qu’ran and the Jews,” Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion; http://huc.edu/huc-connect/huc-connect-2021
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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.