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History Track

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - a Glance into the History of the Jews During the Renaissance (1 of 4)
Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - the Ghetto: Between Oppression and Liberation (3 of 4)
Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - the Italian Jewish Community from the Renaissance Until Today (4 of 4)
Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
'Did the Jews Have a Renaissance?' - What Can We Learn from the Sermons of Italian Rabbis During the Renaissance? (2 of 4)
Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi

Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
'Exodus 1947' - the Ship that Launched a Nation
Ruth Gruber

Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
'Operation: Last Chance': a Final Worldwide Effort to Track Down Nazi War Criminals
Efraim Zuroff

Sunday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
'Remember'
Finchley Catholic High School

Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
'The Birth of the Neocons: Jewish Political Thought in McCarthyite America'
Benjamin Tankel

Friday, 17:30 - 18:45 (Session 1)
'The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah: the Tragic Aftermath of the Chanukah Story'
Joel Zeff

Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
'We All Came from Spain': Identity and Memory Among the Jews of Salonika
Bea Lewkowicz

Sunday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
A Brief History of Chutzpah
Daniel Reisel

Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
A Cemetery, a Mall, the Living and the Dead
Wolfgang Wieshaider

Tuesday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
A Conversation Between God and Man
Avrum Burg

Monday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
A Culinary History of Italian Jewry
Silvia Nacamulli

Sunday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
A Virtual Tour of England's Jewish Heritage
Marcus Roberts

Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Absence and Loss, Holocaust Memorials in Berlin and Beyond
Marion Davies

Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Absence and Loss, Holocaust Memorials in Berlin and Beyond
Marion Davies

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Activist Legacies? Politics and Spirituality (4 of 4)
Martha Ackelsberg

Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Al Qaeda: Where It Came from and What It Is Today
Adam Goodvach

Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Andrzej Wajda's 'Korczak'
Golda Zafer-Smith

Tuesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Anglo-Jewry's Best-kept Secrets - Pictures of the Communities that Nobody Knows.
Elkan Levy

Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Archaeological Espionage - TE Lawrence and Leonard Woolley in Sinai 1913/14.
Stephen Rosenberg

Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Are Jews Smarter Than Us? Immigration Policy and the Assessment of Jewish Intelligence in the Interwar Period
Gavin Schaffer

Sunday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Ark: Centennial Project for the Jewish Museum in Prague
Melissa Shiff

Sunday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Armenia, Jews and Genocide
Mark Levene

Wednesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Auschwitz and the Allies
Film Team

Wednesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
Avrum Fried's Protest Songs (Niggunim)
Avrum Burg

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Backgrounds to Protest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe and Early 20th Century United States (2 of 4)
Martha Ackelsberg

Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Bialik - the Poems, the Person and the People
Michael Wegier

Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Can Nazi War Criminals Still Be Prosecuted in the 21st Century?
Efraim Zuroff

Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Carpet Ride Through Arab History
Adam Goodvach

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
City of David - New Finds, New Problems
Stephen Rosenberg

Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Collecting the Films of the Jewish Diaspora
Deborah Steinmetz

Tuesday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Discover History from Your Computer
Tamara Wassner-Rich

Sunday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Doing Oral History to Research British Jewry
Fiona Frank

Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Early Jewish Exegesis of Sefer Bereshit (Genesis)
Esther Eshel

Tuesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi's Writings and More Via Your Computer
Tamara Wassner-Rich

Monday, 18:50 - 20:10 (Early Evening 1)
Emerging from the Flames - Jewish-Christian Dialogue After the Holocaust
Miriam Arkush

Sunday, 22:20 - 23:30 (Evening Ruach)
Engaging with Australia's Indigenous Population
Gary Samowitz

Sunday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Midday)
England's Hidden Jewish Heritage and Work of the National Anglo-Jewish Heritage Trail (JTrails)
Marcus Roberts

Wednesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Ethiopian Jews: 'Who Needs Them?' Says the Interior Minister
Ruth Gruber, Barbara Ribakove Gordon

Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Famous and Infamous Jews in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Lawrence Goldman

Tuesday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Female Beauty in the Bible and in Second Temple Literature
Esther Eshel

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Freud on Antisemitism (3 of 4)
Jay Geller

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Freud's Jewish Identities (2 of 4)
Jay Geller

Tuesday, 17:40 - 18:30 (Family Session 2)
From Tzlofhad's Daughters to Students in the Negev - a Look at Inspirational Jewish Leaders
Rena Arbel

Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Gems from Judeo-Spanish-Arabic Song
Sharonah Fredrick

Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Genocide in Darfur - Our Responsibility
Ruth Messinger

Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Gluckel of Hameln, a Jewish Woman in a Gentile World
Henry Cohn

Wednesday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Going Beyond Anne Frank
Tamara Wassner-Rich

Tuesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
How Bar Mitzvah Parties Began
Michael Hilton

Tuesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
How Golden Was the 'Golden Age' in Spain? (3 of 3)
Marc Saperstein

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
How Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently (3 of 4)
Amy-Jill Levine

Thursday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
How Old Is the Haggadah?
Judith Hauptman

Sunday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Humour, Identity and the Holocaust
Rex Bloomstein

Monday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Iran: Between Opposing Views
Adam Goodvach

Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Is the Blood of Rabbis and Yeshiva Students Redder Than that of 'Ordinary' Jews? (1 of 2)
Efraim Zuroff

Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Is the Blood of Rabbis and Yeshiva Students Redder Than that of 'Ordinary' Jews? (2 of 2)
Efraim Zuroff

Monday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Israel at 60: Seeking a Civil Society (2 of 4)
David Newman

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Israel's Heroic Years - 1948-1967 (1 of 4)
Colin Shindler

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Jacob Israel De Haan 1880 - 1924
David Soetendorp

Sunday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Jerusalem of Light
Deborah Steinmetz

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Jesus and Judaism: Why the Connection Matters (1 of 4)
Amy-Jill Levine

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Jewish Ideas that Have Changed the World (1 of 3)
Clive Lawton

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Jewish Ideas that Have Changed the World (2 of 3)
Clive Lawton

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Jewish Ideas that Have Changed the World (3 of 3)
Clive Lawton

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Jewish Journeys: Fez - a Moroccan Experience (2 of 2)
Chaim Weiner

Wednesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
Jewish Journeys: Speyer, Worms and Mainz - the Birth of Ashkenaz (1 of 2)
Chaim Weiner

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Jewish Lives on the Left in Twentieth-Century Britain
Joseph Maslen

Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Jewish Migration to South Africa 1885-1914
Aubrey Newman

Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Jewish Music in Britain Since Henry VIII
Malcolm Miller

Monday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
Jewish Soldiers in the War Against Fascism
Asher Tropp

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Jewish Women's Labour Activism (3 of 4)
Martha Ackelsberg

Monday, 19:20 - 20:40 (Early Evening 2)
Jews and Muslims in Medieval Egypt (2 of 3)
Marc Saperstein

Sunday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Jews and Pirates in the Caribbean
Sharonah Fredrick

Sunday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
Jews Under the Caliphs of Baghdad (1 of 3)
Marc Saperstein

Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Kike Like Me
UK Jewish Film Festival, Lindsay Wittenberg

Monday, 19:20 - 20:40 (Early Evening 2)
King Arthur and King David: Literary Parallels
Sharonah Fredrick

Tuesday, 22:20 - 23:30 (Ruach)
Learn the Talmud in 1 Hour (2 of 2)
Mark Garfield

Sunday, 22:20 - 23:30 (Evening Ruach)
Left Luggage
UK Jewish Film Festival, Lindsay Wittenberg

Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Listening to Holocaust Survivors (3 of 3)
David Bier

Monday, 18:50 - 20:10 (Early Evening 1)
Making Sound-Art (1 of 3)
Rebekka Wedell

Tuesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
Making Sound-Art - a Creative Workshop (2 of 3)
Rebekka Wedell

Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Making Sound-Art - a Creative Workshop (3 of 3)
Rebekka Wedell

Thursday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Moderate Islam: What Is It? Where Is It?
Adam Goodvach

Monday, 22:20 - 23:30 (Evening Ruach)
Momik's Story
Michael Picardie

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Mothers of Protest: Introduction (1 of 4)
Martha Ackelsberg

Saturday, 19:30 - 20:40 (Session 4)
My People's Dream
Deborah Steinmetz

Sunday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
Nazi Looted Works of Art - Recovering What Is Rightfully Theirs
Anne Webber

Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
New Discoveries Related to the Bar Kokhba Revolt
Esther Eshel, Hanan Eshel

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Nurturing the Flame: Feeding the Jewish Soul in Eastern Europe
Jelena Gorelika, Maurice Stone

Wednesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Once Lost Now Found
Deborah Steinmetz

Wednesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Online Yad Vashem Courses in Your Time
Tamara Wassner-Rich

Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Origin of Human Rights
Daniel Reisel

Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Pirke Avot: New Wisdom Every Day (2 of 4)
Daniel Goldfarb

Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Pirke Avot: New Wisdom Every Day (3 of 4)
Daniel Goldfarb

Thursday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Pirke Avot: New Wisdom Every Day (4 of 4)
Daniel Goldfarb

Monday, 19:20 - 20:40 (Early Evening 2)
Pirkei Avot: New Wisdom Every Day (1 of 4)
Daniel Goldfarb

Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Postmodern Jewish Wedding: Reinventing Ritual
Louis Kaplan, Melissa Shiff

Monday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Racial Science and Jews: an Overview
Gavin Schaffer

Monday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Refugee Voices: Filming Interviews with German-Jewish Refugees in the UK
Bea Lewkowicz

Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Renya the Cobbler's Daughter
Dudley Cohen & Friends

Wednesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Revolutions and the Jewish Community
Peter Herlinger

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Robin Hood and the Jews
Sharonah Fredrick

Tuesday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Rural Jewish Youth Under Vichy France: Les Éclaireurs Israélites de France and the Chantiers Ruraux
Daniel Lee

Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Saudi Arabia: a Kingdom on the Rebound
Adam Goodvach

Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Secular and Religious Zionism: a Guide for the Perplexed
Colin Shindler

Tuesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Shabbetai Zvi - May His Name Be Blotted Out
Lucien Gubbay

Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Shalom Bombay
Caroline Hayim

Wednesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Sir Nicholas Winton - an Ordinary Man?
Rachel Allen

Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Stories in Stone - a Workshop Exploring England's Jewish Heritage and History Through Monuments and Memorials
Raj Cunniah

Sunday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
Stories in Stone - a Workshop Exploring England's Jewish Heritage and History Through Monuments and Memorials
Raj Cunniah

Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Surviving in Fascist Italy: Memories of a Jewish Child in a Catholic Orphanage
Cesare Sacerdoti

Monday, 19:20 - 20:40 (Early Evening 2)
The 10th Man / Yippee! A Journey to Jewish Joy
UK Jewish Film Festival, Lindsay Wittenberg

Tuesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
The Afterlife in the Bible
Adam Kraus

Saturday, 21:00 - 22:10 (Session 5)
The Beatles & the Jews
Sharonah Fredrick

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
The Case for the Defence
Renee Bravo

Monday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Clash of Civilizations
Avrum Burg

Sunday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
The Day the Talmud Was Created
Joel Grishaver

Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Hanan Eshel

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Ends of Freud's 'Moses' (4 of 4)
Jay Geller

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Euphoria of Oslo and the Death of Rabin (3 of 4)
Colin Shindler

Friday, 17:30 - 18:45 (Session 1)
The Exodus, the Pharaohs and Sigmund Freud
Stephen Rosenberg

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
The Figure of Judith as Compared with that of Esther and Yael
Esther Eshel

Tuesday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
The Gathering
Film Team

Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
The Hasmonean State in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Hanan Eshel

Tuesday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
The Identity Politics of Jews in the Spanish Civil War
Sarah Sackman

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
The Last Marranos
Hilary Pomeroy

Sunday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal and How He Tried to Shape Holocaust Memory
Efraim Zuroff

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Making of Freud's Jewish Book (1 of 4)
Jay Geller

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes (1 of 4)
Shalva Weil

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes (2 of 4)
Shalva Weil

Wednesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes (3 of 4)
Shalva Weil

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes (4 of 4)
Shalva Weil

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The New Testament and Anti-Judaism (2 of 4)
Amy-Jill Levine

Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Power of Good
Rachel Allen

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Present and Future of Jewish/Christian Relations (4 of 4)
Amy-Jill Levine

Wednesday, 18:50 - 20:00 (Early Evening 1)
The Promised Land and the New World: Seeing Zion in America
Brian Klug

Sunday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
The Rape of Dinah in Early Exegesis
Esther Eshel

Monday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
The Real Esther and Haman
Stephen Rosenberg

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
The Reform Beth Din
Jonathan Romain

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Settlements and the Rise of the Right (2 of 4)
Colin Shindler

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
The Sharon Years: a Long Walk to Disaster? (4 of 4)
Colin Shindler

Wednesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
The Significance of the Provinces for the Anglo-Jewish Historian
Aubrey Newman

Tuesday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
They Got Off the Boat Too Soon
Elkan Levy

Tuesday, 16:15 - 17:00 (Family Session 1)
Time Travel with Your Family: Around the World in 40 Minutes - Travel to a Jewish Community Abroad
Revital Shloman

Wednesday, 16:15 - 17:00 (Family Session 1)
Time Travel with Your Family: Biblical Times - Once Upon a Time - Our Origins
Revital Shloman

Monday, 16:15 - 17:00 (Family Session 1)
Time Travel with Your Family: Israel the Past Present and Future of Jewish People
Revital Shloman

Sunday, 16:15 - 17:00 (Family Session 1)
Time Travel with Your Family: the Jewish Future - from Adam and Eve to Ilan Ramon - Who Are We?
Revital Shloman

Sunday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Midday)
Two Jewish Temples in Ancient Egypt
Stephen Rosenberg

Saturday, 21:00 - 22:10 (Session 5)
Two Jewish temples in Ancient Egypt
Stephen Rosenberg

Monday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
Tzeitel's Tzurres, Hodel's Muddle, Chava's Palaver
Daniel Reisel

Tuesday, 17:20 - 18:30 (Twilight)
Understanding the Armenian Genocide
Sharonah Fredrick

Sunday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
Wartime Yiddish Songs
Shirli Gilbert

Monday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
What We Should Learn from Holocaust Survivors (1 of 3)
David Bier

Tuesday, 14:20 - 15:30 (Mid Afternoon)
What We Should Learn from Holocaust Survivors (2 of 3)
David Bier

Tuesday, 20:50 - 22:00 (Mid Evening)
Who Is Samuel Bak?
Orit Margaliot

Sunday, 09:30 - 10:50 (Morning)
Why Didn't the Books of the Maccabees Get into the Bible?
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Tuesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Why Didn't You Come Before the War?
Orit Margaliot, Fabiana Meyochas

Tuesday, 19:20 - 20:30 (Early Evening 2)
Why Didn't You Come Before the War?
Orit Margaliot, Fabiana Meyochas

Wednesday, 12:50 - 14:00 (Early Afternoon)
Why Didn't You Come Before the War?
Orit Margaliot, Fabiana Meyochas

Tuesday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Witness
Ruth Gruber

Tuesday, 09:20 - 10:50 (Chavruta)
Would You Buy a Cruse of Oil from this High Priest?
Stephen Rosenberg

Monday, 15:50 - 17:00 (Late Afternoon)
Yiddish Poetry and Song - Glimpses of Our History
Hannah Grant

Thursday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Zionism and Its Discontents: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Post-Zionism - Distinctions with a Difference? (4 of 4)
Gideon Shimoni

Monday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Zionism and Its Discontents: the Genesis of Zionism (1 of 4)
Gideon Shimoni

Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:20 (Intensives)
Zionism and Its Discontents: Zionism as Secular Identity - a God that Failed? (2 of 4)
Gideon Shimoni