History & Thought
Mon 10

- Pacific Time

Daniela Naomi Molnar in Conversation with Julie Carr · PROTOCOLS: An Erasure

Virtual Program
In partnership with the Jewish Community Library, San Francisco

PROTOCOLS: An Erasure transforms the world’s most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language.

By redacting words from the original document, Molnar created a book-length poem that breathes space and light into a text dense with hatred. She patiently uncovers the questi... Read more

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Wed 19

- Pacific Time

Prof. Michael Hoberman · Imagining Early American Jews

Virtual Program
In partnership with the Jewish Community Library, San Francisco

Imagining Early American Jews looks at how early Jewish American history (from the colonial period to the Civil War) has been popularized and mythologized. As attitudes toward the more troubling and fraught aspects of that history have changed, the stories that we used to tell about the Jews who fought in the American Revolution, se... Read more

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Sat 08

- Pacific Time

Robby Adler Peckerar & Natan Kuchar · Holy Spirits: Ecstatic Joy and the Wine of Torah

In partnership with Limmud North America • Global Day of Jewish Learning and the Piedmont Jewish Community

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Tue 09

- Pacific Time

Robby Adler Peckerar, Rachel Biale & Aaron Paley · From the Periphery: Jewish Culture and Education from Yiddishkayt to New Lehrhaus

Virtual Program
This session explores two radical innovations in Jewish culture and education that have their roots in the 1920s: the legacy of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order and Yiddishkayt Los Angeles, alongside Franz Rosenzweig's "New Learning" and today's New Lehrhaus.

The JPFO was one of Los Angeles's most important Jewish organizations in the early 20th century, centering anti-racist organizing and Yiddish culture. After its McCarthyist destruction in 1950, former ... Read more

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Thu 18

- Pacific Time

Erich Gruen & Ron Hendel · Hanukkah: Resistance or Accommodation?

Virtual Program

Brave Maccabees defeat the evil Seleucid Empire and rededicate the Temple; miracle oil burns for eight days (thus the latkes). Not really...the Books of the Maccabees tell a far messier tale.

Yes, Hanukkah celebrates a stirring victory of Jewish forces, led by Judah Maccabee, over those of the Greco-Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes, who had sought to stamp out the religion, rituals, and institutions of the Jewish nation. But the historical record is more complicated. It was no... Read more

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Sun 07

- Pacific Time

Seth Rogovoy · The Times They Were a-Changin’: Jewish Protest Singers of the 1960s

Virtual Program
While they may have left the Yiddish language behind, Jewish singers and songwriters perpetuated the longstanding Jewish tradition of songs of social justice in the countercultural ferment of the 1960s. Musicians ranging from Bob Dylan to Phil Ochs to Janis Ian to Country Joe and the Fish wrote and sang songs that became anthems of the civil rights, antiwar, and women’s movements, among other expressions of political protest. 

In this multimedia talk, author Seth Rog... Read more

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Wed 03

Starts on - Pacific Time Series

Robby Adler Peckerar · Radical Jewish Reading Circle

Virtual Program

What makes a text radically Jewish?

Join us for the Radical Jewish Reading Circle—three evenings of reading, thinking, and conversation about radical thinkers of Jewish origin.

We'll read three radical thinkers of Jewish origin. This month we begin with Isaac Deutscher, starting with his famous essay "The Non-Jewish Jew." Over the course of our time together, we'll explore figures who grappled with revolution, nationalism, identity, a... Read more

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Tue 23

- Pacific Time

Jordan Chad · Christmas in Yiddish Tradition

Virtual Program
In partnership with KlezCalifornia

Back in Europe, Yiddish-speaking Jews traditionally let loose on Christmas Eve with feasting, drinking, dancing, and gambling. Scholars have previously assumed that this Christmas Eve vacation from Torah study was some sort of antagonistic counterculture to Christians celebrating Christmas. But Jordan Chad’s recent book Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: the Untold Story* reveals that the Christmas traditions tr... Read more

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