SAN DIEGO — Here are streaming lectures and programs of specific interest to the Jewish community from Sunday, Aug. 23 through Friday, Aug. 28
Sunday, August 23
9 a.m. Emile Schrijver and Yigal Zalmona,”Collections of Memories: Jewish Museums in a Changing Reality,” National Library of Israel.
10 a.m. Ido Aharoni, Shlomo Hassan, and Zvi Hauser, “The Peace Agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates,” Canadian Friends of Hebrew University.
11 a.m. Judith R. Cohen, “Adeus Vila de Belmonte: Music in the Lives of Crypto-Jews in Portugal,” Sephardic World.
12 p.m. Lawrence Schiffman, “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament,” Orange County Community Scholar Program,
1 p.m. Abraham Foxman, Noemi Perelman Mattis, and Ruth Kapp Hartz, “Hidden Children and Their Rescuers,” Sousa Mendes Foundation,
Monday, August 24
10 a.m. Levi Cooper, “Plague in the Promised Land,” Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.
4 p.m. Liza Wiemer, “Teens Speak Up Against Injustice: The Story behind The Assignment,” American Jewish University.
4 p.m. Rosalie Will, “Serve the Divine with Joy: Reform Music and Worship in the 21st Century,” Temple Sinai of Pittsburgh.
4:30 p.m. “Righteous: A Play Reading (about Eduard Schulte),” Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
4:30 p.m. Jonathan Sarna, “Living through American Jewish History,” Near Eastern and Jewish Studies, Brandeis University.
Tuesday, August 25
9 a.m. Patricia Heberer Rice, “Deadly Medicine: The Complicity of Physicians,” US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
10 a.m. Yonatan Brafman, Daniel Nevins, and Toby Schonfeld, “Covid, Triage, and Jewish Ethics,” Jewish Theological Seminary.
10 a.m. Reuven Brand, “Spiritual Resistance in the Camps,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
11 a.m. Damian Slattery and Howard Veisz, “Gerda III: Ship of Salvation (Rescue of Danish Jews),” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
12 p.m. Clarence Moriwaki, “Let It Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion.”
12:30 p.m. Ishay Ribo with Shalom Orzach, “Music to One’s Ear and Heart,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Wednesday, August 26
6:30 a.m. Damion Thomas and Edna Friedberg, “Nazi Olympics: How Black and Jewish Athletes Challenged the ‘Master Race,’” US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
8 a.m. Claudia J. Nahson, “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918–1922,” 92nd St. Y.
8 a..m. Uzi Rabi, “Israel and the New Global Forces: China and Russia,” American Friends of Tel Aviv University,
11:30 a.m. Boris Kucharsky, “Elegy (Composed by Malcolm Singer for Funeral of Yehudi Menuhin), Jewish Music Institute.
12:30 p.m. Tobi Kahn, “Land Art/Earthworks: Expanding the Boundaries of Art,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
Thursday, August 27
10 a.m. Howard Kerner, “Heroes of the Holocaust – Priests and Nuns,” Florida Holocaust Museum.
11 a.m. Daniel Gordis, “The Seismic Shift in American Jewish Life-Where Are We Headed?” Valley Beit Midrash.
11 a.m. Jonah Boyarin and Anthony Russell, “Yiddish, Anti-Racist Practice, and the Transformation of Jewish Communities,” Museum of Jewish Heritage.
11 a.m. Ami Ayalon, “Friendly Fire: How Israel Became It’s Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future,” Temple Emanu-El, Dor Hadash, Adat Shalom, and Temple Solel of San Diego.
12 p.m. Allison Somogyi, “Walking a Fine Line: Hungarian-Jewish Survivors and the Discourse Surrounding Sexual Violence in Postwar Testimonies” USC Shoah Foundation.
12:30 p.m. Raphael Zarum, “Stranger Things: The Upside-down and the Sitra Achra,” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
4 p.m. Madeline (Mindl) Cohen, “Yiddish Comes to America,” Yiddish Book Center.
4:30 p.m. Ken Ostoyich, Doris Fogel, Andy Kang, and Danny Spungen, “Harbor from the Holocaust (Shanghai)” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Center.
5 p.m. Leandra Zarnow, “Bella Abzug,” Jewish Women’s Archive.
Friday, August 28
12:30 p.m. Murry Sidlin, “Defiant Requiem (Movie and discussion about performance of Verdi’s Requiem in Theresienstadt),” Orange County Community Scholar Program.
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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.