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Sunday
11:00 - 12:10 - Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation - Jeff Berger - Sci 8
12:30 - 13:40 - Off the Beaten Path: American Jewish Life Between the Coasts - Lior Kaminetsky - Sci 4
12:30 - 13:40 - Jew (Must) Go - When Prophecy Fails! (1 of 4) - Jeremy Leigh - Sci 5
12:30 - 13:40 - The Power of Satire: European-Jewish Cabaret - Rebecca Joy Fletcher - Lib 1
14:00 - 15:10 - Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg: Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy (1 of 3) - Marc Shapiro - Soc 4
14:00 - 15:10 - Spain 1492 - Michael Romain - Sci 4
14:00 - 15:10 - The Jews of Ancient Rome - Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, Pagan Authors and Possible Literary Output - Tal Ilan - Lib 1
14:00 - 15:10 - Twenty Things About Hebrew They Never Taught You in Cheder - Michael Grant - Sci 7
15:30 - 16:20 - Let's Learn Russian - Richard Verber - Soc 5
15:30 - 16:20 - What's Best in 2011: Jewish History - Michael Pollak - Sci 4
17:00 - 18:00 - Then and Now - Exploring Life in the East End Through Objects - Judith Vandervelde - Ram 4
18:40 - 19:50 - Sand and Stars: Early Tel Aviv and Its Cabarets - Rebecca Joy Fletcher - Sci 5
18:40 - 19:50 - Nittelnacht: Christmas in the Yeshiva - Benjamin Crowne - Ram 2
18:40 - 19:50 - America and the Holocaust: Using History to Fight Contemporary Battles? - Deborah Lipstadt - Arts - Conference
18:40 - 19:50 - Kibbutz - Past, Present & Future - Lydia Aisenberg - Soc 4
19:10 - 20:20 - Women's Photography in Palestine, 1930s and 40s - Corinne Shmuel - Ram 5
Monday
08:00 - 09:00 - The 12 Turning Points in Jewish History - Stuart Altshuler - Sci 4
09:30 - 10:40 - Jews (Must) Go - Everyone Loves/Hates the Jews! (2 of 4) - Jeremy Leigh - Sci 5
11:00 - 12:10 - Engaging and Inspiring Learners Through Objects - Judith Vandervelde - Soc 3
11:00 - 12:10 - Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Damascus Affair (1 of 3) - Jonathan Wolfson - Soc 7
11:00 - 12:10 - The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (1 of 4) - Clive Lawton - Hum 1
12:30 - 13:40 - Parallel Traditions in the Works of Flavius Josephus and Rabbinic Literature - New Insights - Tal Ilan - Soc 5
12:30 - 13:40 - Seventy Years Since the Arab Kristallnacht - Lyn Julius - Hum 1
12:30 - 13:40 - The 'Gentile Question' in Ancient Judaism - Joshua Garroway - Sci 5
12:30 - 13:40 - A Refugee From Nazism in Apartheid South Africa - Shirli Gilbert - Ram 5
15:30 - 16:20 - Can You Hire a Hitman? Talmud with the Back-Story Left In - Benjamin Crowne - Sci 7
17:10 - 18:20 - Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (1 of 2) - Jonathan Myers - Soc 4
18:40 - 19:50 - The Dove Flyer: the Fate of the Jews of Baghdad - Eli Amir - Sci 8
19:10 - 20:20 - When Words Are Not Enough: Witness and Memory in Holocaust Art (1 of 2) - Irene Wise - Ram 4
22:15 - 23:30 - Performance: 'Cities of Light' - Rebecca Joy Fletcher - Arts - Studio
Tuesday
09:30 - 10:40 - Jewish Marriage Ceremonies Through the Ages - Peter Sevitt - Soc 4
09:30 - 10:40 - The Brilliance and the Horror: Faces of German Jewry (1 of 3) - Jonathan Wittenberg - Soc 1
11:00 - 12:10 - Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: the Evolution of American Jewry - Shuly Schwartz - Hum 2
11:00 - 12:10 - The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (2 of 4) - Clive Lawton - Hum 1
11:00 - 12:10 - Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Mortara Affair (2 of 3) - Jonathan Wolfson - Soc 6
14:00 - 15:10 - Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (2 of 2) - Jonathan Myers - Soc 3
14:00 - 15:10 - The Brilliance and the Horror: Faces of German Jewry (2 of 3) - Jonathan Wittenberg - Sci 4
14:00 - 15:10 - The Quality of Jewish Leadership in the Generation of the Expulsion From Spain - Marc Saperstein - Ram 3
15:30 - 16:20 - And So All Israel Will Be Saved (Rom 11:26) - Paul and the Ultimate Fate of Israel - Joshua Garroway - Soc 4
18:40 - 19:50 - Solomon Gaon - Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation - Jeff Berger - Soc 6
18:40 - 19:50 - The Silent Exodus - Michelle Huberman - Hum 1
19:10 - 20:20 - Jews (Must) Go - But Which Location Can Help Foster Creativity? (3 of 4) - Jeremy Leigh - Soc 2
19:10 - 20:20 - The Essence of Jewish Music - Lior Kaminetsky - Arts - Ensemble
20:40 - 21:55 - Three Men of Odessa - Trudy Gold - Ram 4
22:15 - 23:30 - The Best Story Wins - Wayne L Firestone - Rootes Sutherland
Wednesday
09:30 - 10:40 - Tahara - the Final Mitzvah - David Soetendorp , Ruth Soetendorp - Ram 2
09:30 - 10:40 - WWJD: the Jewishness of Jesus and the 'Synagogue Problem' in 4th Century Antioch - Joshua Garroway - Soc 5
11:00 - 12:10 - Finkler's Question Over Time—Revisiting Hillel, Shammai and Herod - Wayne L Firestone - Soc 1
11:00 - 12:10 - The Tower of London and Its Secret Jewish History - Marcus Roberts - Soc 5
11:00 - 12:10 - The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (3 of 4) - Clive Lawton - Hum 1
12:30 - 13:40 - Jews (Must) Go - Jews of Muscle (4 of 4) - Jeremy Leigh - Hum 2
12:30 - 13:40 - How to Research and Present a Synagogue History - Marcus Roberts - Soc 5
12:30 - 13:40 - Three Very Jewish Affairs: the Dreyfus Affair (3 of 3) - Jonathan Wolfson - Ram 4
12:30 - 13:40 - The Divine Sarah - Maureen Kendler - Sci 8
14:00 - 15:10 - In Conversation with Olympian Ben Helfgott - Champion Athlete and Holocaust Survivor - Adrian Cohen , Ben Helfgott - Ram 4
15:30 - 16:40 - Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust - David Shneer - Hum 2
15:30 - 16:40 - A Jewish Requiem for Kodachrome - Michael Berkowitz - Soc 1
15:30 - 16:40 - When Words Are Not Enough: Witness and Memory in Holocaust Art (2 of 2) - Irene Wise - Ram 5
17:00 - 18:10 - The Phoenix of Jewish Music - Polina Sheperd - Arts - Ensemble
17:00 - 18:10 - Unmasking the Muscle Jew: the Idea of the Jewish Soldier in Britain 1900-1950 - Gavin Schaffer - Soc 6
18:30 - 19:40 - Jews in the History of British Photojournalism - Michael Berkowitz - Lib 1
18:30 - 19:40 - Napoleon and the Jews - Trudy Gold - Sci 7
17:00 - 18:00 - 'Take One Object ...' - Judith Vandervelde - Sci 1
Thursday
10:00 - 11:10 - Changing Tradition; the Origins of Reform Judaism in the Mid 19th Century - Alastair Falk - Sci 5
10:00 - 11:10 - When Yiddish Came to North Korea: Lin Jaldati and the Concert Heard Round the World - David Shneer - Ram 2
11:30 - 12:40 - The Luckiest People in the World - a Run Through Jewish History (4 of 4) - Clive Lawton - Sci 3