Multimedia
Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture Videos
Susan Neiman, "Racism, Antisemitism, and Rethinking Historical Reckoning" Thursday, March 9, 2023
Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Forgetting Second Temple Jerusalem; History, Memory, and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” April 7, 2022
Sarah Stein, "A Sephardic Family’s Journey Through the Twentieth Century," November 11, 2020
Michael Fishbane, PhD'71, "Natural Supernaturalism: Themes of Mystic Light and Despair in the Poetry of Chaim Nahman Bialik," November 14, 2019
Samuel Moyn, Yale University, "Rights and Nationhood from 1948 to the Present," November 8, 2018
Elisheva Baumgarten, "Matchmaking and Medieval Family Dynamics: Did Parents Ever Have the Final Word?," October 30, 2017
Charlotte Fonrobert, "Taking the Talmud to Town: Judaism in the Public Square," March 30, 2017
David Ellenson, "To Reshape the World: Interpretation, Renewal, and Feminist Approaches to Jewish Law," November 3, 2015
Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture Audio
"The Organization of Sacred Time among Jews and Christians"
49th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture,Israel J. Yuval, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, March 28, 2012
Video of Other Events
"The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" Author Marat Grinberg in conversation with Prof. ChaeRan Freeze, Thursday, April 27, 2023.
Sven-Erik Rose, "Making and Unmaking Literature in Nazi Ghettos in Poland," Tuesday, April 25, 2023.
Jordan Katz, "Registers of Belonging, Registers of Difference: Early Modern Jewish Midwives and their Records." Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Elias Sacks, "Do Citizens Need to be Philosophers? Nachman Krochmal's Diasporic Jewish Politics." Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Joshua Picard, "The Precedents and Origin of Djerba's Or Torah Fund." Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Elisabeth Gallas, "A Jewish Bill of Indictment: The New York Black Book of 1946." Tuesday, November 4, 2022
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "Ifra Hormiz: Talmudic Stories of the Persian Queen Mother and the Bavli's Redaction." Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Na'ama Rokem, "Pedagogy, Language, and Labor Politics in Kafka's Hebrew Notebooks." Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
Shira Billet, "Hermann Cohen's Virtue Ethics: Power and Agency within the Experience of Marginalization." Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
David Koffman, ""Métis, Jews, and the Politics of Counting Difference in Canada." Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Daniella Farah, "From the 'Wretched' to the 'Bourgeoisie': Jews in Modern Iran." February 15th, 2022.
David Shyovitz,"Soul Food and Salvation in Medieval Ashkenaz: the Ambrosian Bible's 'Heavenly Banquet' Revisited." January 18th, 2022.
Martin Dean, "Babyn Yar 80 Years Later: New Findings, Areas of Dispute, and Remaining Questions," November 16th, 2021
Professor Devi Mays, "Two Steps from the Abyss: An Ottoman Jewish Witness to War," October 12th, 2021
Hasidism Book Launch: Eugene Sheppard, Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff, April 15th, 2021
Noam Sienna, "'Sit and Study This Book with Your Family': Print Culture in 19th-Century North Africa", April 20 2021
Professor Joseph Sassoon, "The Global Merchants: The World of the Sassoons", March 23 2021
Professor Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Jerusalem's Ancient Queens: Gender, Power, and Erasure", February 23 2021
Kim Wünschmann, "How to Draw German-Jewish History? The Graphic History Project 'Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past'" Tuesday, April 12, 2022
"The Quest for Community: The Havurah Movement and its Impact on American Judaism," featuring Arthur Green, Joseph Reimer, Aliza Arzt, Laura Bellow, Jonathan Sarna and Seth Winberg, June 5, 2019