History & Thought
Thu 22

- Pacific Time

Bonnie Weiss—Hanukkah in Song: From the Heartfelt to the Hilarious (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

Join us on a musical journey from "I Have a Little Dreidel" and "Rock of Ages" to original songs, hilarious Tom Lehrer satiric numbers, and Hanukkah-themed new lyrics set to music by Leonard Bernstein and other acclaimed composers. Listen to songs you may have never heard about the Maccabees, the history of Hanukkah, and the "miracle" of making edible latkes in the song "Latkes, Shmatkes.”

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Instructor

Sun 29

- Pacific Time

Ellie Shapiro: Cabaret Culture in Interwar Poland

In partnership with KlezCalifornia and the Jewish Community Library

In the 1920s and ’30s, only New York rivaled Warsaw as a capital of Jewish cosmopolitanism. This multimedia presentation will demonstrate the vitality of a community known more for how they died than how they lived.

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Instructor

Wed 15

- Pacific Time

Prof. Magda Teter
Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (Annual Pell Lecture)—In Person Only

Eda Pell, our stalwart supporter and most generous donor, sponsors an annual lecture at UC Berkeley: we encourage you to attend.

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Location

Magnes Museum

2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 + Google Map

Instructor

Wed 01

- Pacific Time

Dr. Natalia Romik
Hideouts: The Architecture of Survival in the Holocaust

Location

Magnes Museum

2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 + Google Map

Instructor

Mon 27

- Pacific Time

Profs. Robert Alter and Ron Hendel: What REALLY Happened on Passover? (Virtual on Zoom)

Virtual Program

It’s not what you think, it’s not what the Hagaddah tells us, it’s not what you remember from Sunday School or "The Ten Commandments." Profs. Ron Hendel and Robert Alter will provide an analysis of the Biblical text, both historical and literary, which will turn your Passover Seder upside down.

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Sun 23

- Pacific Time

Prof. Erich Gruen: Smiling through Tears? Jewish Humor in Antiquity (Zoom Only)

Virtual Program

This program will consider a number of texts composed by Jews dwelling under imperial rule in antiquity (the Persian, Greek, and Roman empires) in order to understand how the substantial humor in those texts reflects the experience and attitudes of a subordinate people. The texts to be discussed are the biblical books of Esther and Jonah, the stories of Judith and Susanna, and the Testament of Abraham. (PDF files of the latter three will be sent to participants).

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Instructor

Mon 01

- Pacific Time

Ken Blady—Among Cossacks and Commissars: A History of Ukrainian Jewry (Zoom Only)

Virtual Program

4 sessions: Mondays May 1, 8, 15, 22 @7–8:30pm

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Instructor

Sun 16

- Pacific Time

Dr. Joseph Benatov: How the Bulgarian Jews Survived the Holocaust (Zoom Only)

Virtual Program

We invite you to join these community Yom Ha-Shoah Programs held by partner organizations: JFCS Holocaust Center and "Under One Tent," a program of the Contra Costa JCC.

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Instructor

Sun 26

- Pacific Time

David Biale, Chen Mandel-Edrei & Marcin Wodziński—Hasidism: New Perspectives on an Old Movement (Zoom only)

We're pleased to invite you to a Partnership Program with the Taube Center for Jewish Life and Culture in Warsaw.

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Sun 09

- Pacific Time

Soil to Soul: Agriculture and Jewish Culture series

A partnership program of Urban Adamah and New Lehrhaus, and with Jewish Food Society

Click the session titles below to reach the individual registration pages.

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