Recorded Public Programs

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Jewish History and Culture

Drunk on Genocide. Drinking Rituals and the Intoxication of Mass Murder in Nazi Germany


April 3, 2022
Edward Westermann

Purim Revenge Fantasy


March 8, 2022

Celebrating Jewishness and Dance


March 6, 2022

Ancient Roots Series - part 1 | Reading the Bible with Ancient Jews & Christians


February 1, 2022

Ancient Roots Series - part 2 | Toward Judaism and Christianity: Processes of Separation


Febrary 8, 2022

Ancient Roots Series - part 3 | Identities and Categories in Jewish Antiquity


February 15, 2022

Rabbis that Shaped Jewish History | part 1 — Rabbis of the Talmud


January 20, 2022

Rabbis that Shaped Jewish History | part 2 — Rabbis of the Middle Ages


January 27, 2022

Rabbis that Shaped Jewish History | part 3 — Rabbis of Early Modernity


February 3, 2022

Jewish Genealogy | lecture series | part 1


They changed my name: immigration myths and mythologies | Dec. 7, 2021

Jewish Genealogy | lecture series | part 2


Challenges in Jewish Ancestral Research | Dec. 14, 2021

Thinking Through Literature After Auschwitz | lecture series | part 1


The Impossible Art of Survival: the Poetry of Paul Celan | November 9, 2021

Thinking Through Literature After Auschwitz | lecture series | part 2


Ghost Writing: Phillip Roth, Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz | Nov. 16, 2021

Thinking Through Literature After Auschwitz | lecture series | part 3


Poetry and prose after Auschwitz: a roundtable | Nov. 30, 2021

Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians Before the Holocaust and Today


Nov. 4, 2021

Judaism and Public Health: Living in the Shadows of Pandemics

2022 Judaism, Science and Medicine Group Conference | March 27, 2022

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Session 1 - Keynote


Dr. Michael Anbar Memorial Keynote Lecture in Judaism, Science and Medicine

Session 2


Session 2:
The Bible through an Epidemiological Lens

Session 3


Session 3:
Legal and Halachic Dimensions of Pandemics

Session 4

Session 4:
Care and Caring in Pandemics: Clinical, Psychological, and Social Dimensions

Session 5

Session 5:
Jews and the History of Pandemics

Session 6

Session 6:
Ethics, Theology, Spirituality in Time of Pandemic: Roundtable

Jews, Race and Civil Rights

Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?


February 16, 2022
Jonathan Fox

Campus Antisemitism: Where, When, and Why Jews are Targeted


October 14, 2021
Ayal Feinberg

Anti-Semitism at ASU? Being Jewish on Campus


February 16, 2021

A History for Our Times



October 25, 2020
Cheryl Greenberg

Jewish-Muslim relations through the ages: co-existence and conflict

2021 Lowe Family Research Conference | October 17, 2021

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Welcome

Jewish-Muslim relations through the ages — Welcome

Session 1


Jews and Muslims in the Early-Modern Period: Continuity and Change

Session 2


Jewish Life among the Muslims in the Middle Ages

Session 3


Jews and Muslim Communities in Contemporary Europe

Session 4


Jews and Muslims in Modernity: Colonialism and Nationalism

Session 5


The Quran and Jewish-Muslim Relations Today

Albert and Liese Eckstein Scholar-in-Residence Lectures

Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution


January 24, 2022
Pamela Nadell, Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History, American University

American Jewry’s Contemporary Scorecard


February 21, 2021
Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University

2021 Religion and Science

Religion and trust


Oct. 5, 2021

Relgion's role in evolution


Oct. 12, 2021

2021 Jewish Studies Today

Modern/Contemporary


April 20, 2021

Medieval/Early Modern


April 13, 2021

Antiquity


April 6, 2021

Judaism and Climate Change: Science, Theology, and Ethics

2021 Judaism, Science and Medicine Group Conference | February 28, 2021

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Session 1 - Keynote


Dr. Michael Anbar Memorial Keynote Lecture in Judaism, Science and Medicine

Session 2


Session 2:
Planetary Habitability: Earth and Beyond

Session 3


Session 3:
Climate Change and Environmental Health

Session 4

Session 4:
Environmental Activism

Session 5

Session 5:
Environmental Theology and Ethics

Anti-Semitism in Comparative Perspective: Recent Trends and Research Frontiers

2021 Lowe Family Research Workshop | January 25, 2021

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Session 1


The Jew In the Central European Imagination

Session 2


Middlemen Minorities and Pogroms in the Russian Empireh

Session 3


Anti-Semitism on Universities in the U.S.: A View from the Student Body

Session 4


Contemporary Left Anti-Semitism


Session 5


Anti-Semitism in Germany in the Time of Pandemic

Session 6


Explaining Ethnoreligious Minority Targeting: Variation in U.S. Anti-Semitic Event

2020 Jews and Judaism Today: Some Burning Issues

Lost in the Shoah: The Rescuing Power of Genealogy


December 1, 2020
Janette Silverman

Purim in DP Camps: How Holocaust Survivors Performed their Trauma


November 10, 2020
Tim Langille

The Future of Gender in Jewish Organizations



October 14, 2020
Madelaine Adelman