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History Track
Sunday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Mid-Morning)
Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Jeff Berger
Sunday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
The Power of Satire: European-Jewish Cabaret
Rebecca Joy Fletcher
Sunday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Off the Beaten Path: American Jewish Life Between the Coasts
Lior Kaminetsky
Sunday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Jew (Must) Go - When Prophecy Fails! (1 of 4)
Jeremy Leigh
Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
The Jews of Ancient Rome - Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, Pagan Authors and Possible Literary Output
Tal Ilan
Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg: Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy (1 of 3)
Marc Shapiro
Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Twenty Things About Hebrew They Never Taught You in Cheder
Michael Grant
Sunday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Spain 1492
Michael Romain
Sunday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Let's Learn Russian
Richard Verber
Sunday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
What's Best in 2011: Jewish History
Michael Pollak
Sunday, 17:00 - 18:00 (Families Hour 2)
Then and Now - Exploring Life in the East End Through Objects
Judith Vandervelde
Sunday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
America and the Holocaust: Using History to Fight Contemporary Battles?
Deborah Lipstadt
Sunday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
Sand and Stars: Early Tel Aviv and Its Cabarets
Rebecca Joy Fletcher
Sunday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
Kibbutz - Past, Present & Future
Lydia Aisenberg
Sunday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
Nittelnacht: Christmas in the Yeshiva
Benjamin Crowne
Sunday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
Women's Photography in Palestine, 1930s and 40s
Corinne Shmuel
Monday, 08:00 - 09:00 (Early Bird)
The 12 Turning Points in Jewish History
Stuart Altshuler
Monday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Jews (Must) Go - Everyone Loves/Hates the Jews! (2 of 4)
Jeremy Leigh
Monday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Damascus Affair (1 of 3)
Jonathan Wolfson
Monday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (1 of 4)
Clive Lawton
Monday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Engaging and Inspiring Learners Through Objects
Judith Vandervelde
Monday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Parallel Traditions in the Works of Flavius Josephus and Rabbinic Literature - New Insights
Tal Ilan
Monday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
The 'Gentile Question' in Ancient Judaism
Joshua Garroway
Monday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
A Refugee From Nazism in Apartheid South Africa
Shirli Gilbert
Monday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Seventy Years Since the Arab Kristallnacht
Lyn Julius
Monday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
Can You Hire a Hitman? Talmud with the Back-Story Left In
Benjamin Crowne
Monday, 17:10 - 18:20 (Late Afternoon)
Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (1 of 2)
Jonathan Myers
Monday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
The Dove Flyer: the Fate of the Jews of Baghdad
Eli Amir
Monday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
When Words Are Not Enough: Witness and Memory in Holocaust Art (1 of 2)
Irene Wise
Monday, 22:15 - 23:30 (Limmud Late)
Performance: 'Cities of Light'
Rebecca Joy Fletcher
Tuesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Jewish Marriage Ceremonies Through the Ages
Peter Sevitt
Tuesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
The Brilliance and the Horror: Faces of German Jewry (1 of 3)
Jonathan Wittenberg
Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: the Evolution of American Jewry
Shuly Schwartz
Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Mortara Affair (2 of 3)
Jonathan Wolfson
Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (2 of 4)
Clive Lawton
Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
The Quality of Jewish Leadership in the Generation of the Expulsion From Spain
Marc Saperstein
Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (2 of 2)
Jonathan Myers
Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
The Brilliance and the Horror: Faces of German Jewry (2 of 3)
Jonathan Wittenberg
Tuesday, 15:30 - 16:20 (Mid Afternoon Short)
And So All Israel Will Be Saved (Rom 11:26) - Paul and the Ultimate Fate of Israel
Joshua Garroway
Tuesday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
The Silent Exodus
Michelle Huberman
Tuesday, 18:40 - 19:50 (Dinner Hour I)
Solomon Gaon - Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation
Jeff Berger
Tuesday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
The Essence of Jewish Music
Lior Kaminetsky
Tuesday, 19:10 - 20:20 (Dinner Hour II)
Jews (Must) Go - But Which Location Can Help Foster Creativity? (3 of 4)
Jeremy Leigh
Tuesday, 20:40 - 21:55 (Prime Time)
Three Men of Odessa
Trudy Gold
Tuesday, 22:15 - 23:30 (Limmud Late)
The Best Story Wins
Wayne L Firestone
Wednesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
WWJD: the Jewishness of Jesus and the 'Synagogue Problem' in 4th Century Antioch
Joshua Garroway
Wednesday, 09:30 - 10:40 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Tahara - the Final Mitzvah
David Soetendorp, Ruth Soetendorp
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
Finkler's Question Over Time—Revisiting Hillel, Shammai and Herod
Wayne L Firestone
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
The Tower of London and Its Secret Jewish History
Marcus Roberts
Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:10 (Morning Intensive)
The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (3 of 4)
Clive Lawton
Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
The Divine Sarah
Maureen Kendler
Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Jews (Must) Go - Jews of Muscle (4 of 4)
Jeremy Leigh
Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
How to Research and Present a Synagogue History
Marcus Roberts
Wednesday, 12:30 - 13:40 (Lunch 'n' Learn)
Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Dreyfus Affair (3 of 3)
Jonathan Wolfson
Wednesday, 14:00 - 15:10 (Afternoon Intensive)
In Conversation with Olympian Ben Helfgott - Champion Athlete and Holocaust Survivor
Adrian Cohen, Ben Helfgott
Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:40 (Mid Afternoon)
Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust
David Shneer
Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:40 (Mid Afternoon)
A Jewish Requiem for Kodachrome
Michael Berkowitz
Wednesday, 15:30 - 16:40 (Mid Afternoon)
When Words Are Not Enough: Witness and Memory in Holocaust Art (2 of 2)
Irene Wise
Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
The Phoenix of Jewish Music
Polina Sheperd
Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:10 (Late Afternoon)
Unmasking the Muscle Jew: the Idea of the Jewish Soldier in Britain 1900-1950
Gavin Schaffer
Wednesday, 18:30 - 19:40 (Dinner Hour I)
Napoleon and the Jews
Trudy Gold
Wednesday, 18:30 - 19:40 (Dinner Hour I)
Jews in the History of British Photojournalism
Michael Berkowitz
Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:00 (Families Hour 2)
'Take One Object ...'
Judith Vandervelde
Thursday, 10:00 - 11:10 (Chavruta Alternatives)
Changing Tradition; the Origins of Reform Judaism in the Mid 19th Century
Alastair Falk
Thursday, 10:00 - 11:10 (Chavruta Alternatives)
When Yiddish Came to North Korea: Lin Jaldati and the Concert Heard Round the World
David Shneer
Thursday, 11:30 - 12:40 (Morning Intensive)
The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (4 of 4)
Clive Lawton
