Lectures

 2016

November 7
How Have the Jews Survived? (Interview with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz)
Valley Beit Midrash, Phoenix, AZ

April 17
Shared Paths, Divergent Courses: Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism
NIF Webinar co-taught with Dr. Hussein Ibish

March 14
The Rise of a Sovereign Shtetl
Tel Aviv University

February 25
Sovereignty in Exile: The Case of Kiryas Joel (Hebrew)
The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem (Video)

2015
April 17
A Brief History of the Jews: From Abraham to Scranton
The University of Scranton

2014
The Faith of Fallen Jews: The Greatness of a Jewish Historian
Interview for The Tel Aviv Review

The Stakes of History: On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life
Yale University
The Franz Rosenzweig Lectures

November 11
"History as Liberation"

November 13_
"History as Consolation"

November 17
"History as Witness"

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2013
October 9
Valley Beth Shalom
"German Jews and Modernity"

October 22
University of Chicago 
"A Hasidic Municipality in New York: As American as Apple Pie?"

October 28
LA Louver Gallery
Kitaj's Life and Passions
panel discussion: Tracy Bartley, Derek Boshier, David N. Myers, and Paul Holdengraber

November 4, 12:00 PM
Skirball Department of Judaic Studies, NYU
Lunchtime Seminar
"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History"


November 5, 4:00 PM
Skirball Department of Judaic Studies, NYU
Lecture with Nomi Stolzenberg
"Only in America!  Kiryas Joel--A Satmar Hasidic Village in Suburban New York"

December 20 
Venice, Italy 
"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History"

December 30 
Hebrew University 
"New Trends in the Historiography of Jewish Nationalism" 
Conference on "Did Something Happen to Zionism on the Way?"

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