Jewish Studies Online Lectures

The Borns Jewish Studies Program is introducing an online collection of lectures that can be heard/viewed/downloaded from this site. Check back often to hear newly added talks.

Kate Evans and Sarah Glidden, Cartoonists in Conversation with Mirjam Zadoff

"Refugees, Art and Journalism" Video 1:28

Joshua Rubenstein, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

"Leon Trotsky and Ilya Ehrenburg: The Heroic and the Tragic" Video 1:21

Tamar Arieli, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor

Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor Lecture

"Zionism and the Environment"

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65 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 38 MB

Peter Beinart, Professor of Journalism & Political Science, The City University of New York

"The Crisis of Zionism"

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74 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 11.7 MB

David Biale; Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History, University of California Davis

Edward A. Block Lecture in Jewish Studies

"We Can Only Tell the Story: Gershom Scholem and the Problem of Modernity"

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64 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 11 MB

John Efron, Koret Professor of Jewish History, University of California, Berkeley

"The Sound of Jewish Modernity: Sephardic Hebrew & the Berlin Haskalah"

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77 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 13.35 MB

"Romancing Sephardic Jewry: Orientalism in a German-Jewish Key"

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88 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 15.1 MB

Alain Finkielkraut, École Polytechnique, Paris

Simona and Hart Hasten Lecture in Jewish Studies

"According to the Flesh": Metamorphoses of the Jew in Christian and Post-Christian Europe

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83 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 78 MB

Professor Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University

Dorit and Gerald Paul Lecture for the Study of Germans and Jews

"Jewish Life in Nazi Germany"

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50 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 8.58 MB

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor; Professor of Performance Studies, Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Samuel and Lillian Solotkin Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies

"Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews on the Site of the Warsaw Ghetto"

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83 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 14.3 MB

Professor Michael Meyer, Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Dorit and Gerald Paul Lecture for the Study of Germans and Jews

"True Honor is What We Gain For Ourselves: Maintaining Jewish Morale in Nazi Germany"

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72 minutes - Download the mp3 file - 41.3 MB