Streaming Jewish lectures: Week of June 14, 2020

By Laurie Baron         

Laurie Baron

SAN DIEGO — All Times Are Eastern Daylight Time

Sunday, June 14- Thursday, June 18, Virtual Global Forum, American Jewish Committee.

Sunday, June 14   

2 PM, Alain Nedjar, “Livorno Sephardic Marriage Registers,” Sephardic World,
4 PM, Eva Fogelman and Annette Insdorf, “Nicky’s Family: The True Story of British Rescuer Nicholas Winton,” Sousa Mendes Foundation.

4 PM, John Q. Barrett, “Understanding the Nuremberg Trials,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Monday, June 15  
12 PM, “A Conversation with Michael Douglas,” American Friends of Tel Aviv University.
5:30 PM, Marc Dollinger, “Jews, Racism, and American Jewish History,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.

Tuesday, June 16
3PM, Tanisha Brandon Felder, E-chieh Lin, and Angela Jones, “Race, Equity, and Holocaust Education,” Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity.

3:30 PM, Jodi Magness, “Massada: The Last Stronghold of the Jewish Resistance Against Rome,” Orange County Community Scholar Program,.

6 PM, Edith Eva Eger, “The Choice: Embrace the Possible,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

10: PM, Laurie Baron, “Jewish-American Women Directors: The Second Generation from Amy Heckerling to Nancy Meyers,”  San Diego Center for Jewish Culture.

Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, July 2, Seattle Jewish Film Festival.

Wednesday, June 17
10 AM, Samuel Thomas Torjman, “The Musical Life of North Africa: Musical Life in Devotional Texts,” Center for Jewish History.

3 PM, Irina Nevzlin and Ethan Bronner, “Identity in the Throes of Crisis,” Center for Jewish History.

2 PM, Peter Rubinstein and Delphine Horvilleur, “Being Jewish in France Today:   The challenge of Antisemitism and the Promise of the Republican Spirit.”  92nd Street Y.

3 PM, Stav Meishar, “Circus Jews under National Socialism,” Center for Jewish History.

4 PM, Tony Michels, “Leon Trotsky through Jewish Eyes,” YIVO,

Thursday, June 18    
6 PM, A Conversation with Tony Kushner, Temple Emanu-El, NYC.

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Laurie Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of European History at San Diego State University; a humor columnist (in his own name and in that of his dog Elona), and is an authority on Jewish-themed movies, particularly those dealing with the Holocaust. To see an archive of his stories, please click on his byline at the top of this page. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com