DAVID N. MYERS
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Lectures

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2025
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April 29, 2025
“The Ever Vanishing Horizon Toward a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.” With Hussein Ibish. University of Notre Dame. 

​May 6, 2025
“Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Israel/Palestine in the Context of Current Attacks on Academic and Political Freedom.” With Sahar Aziz. University of California, Davis.

February 17
"Shifting Attitudes Toward Israel Among American Jews." Arizona State University.

February 4
"A Taxonomy of Jewish Anti-Zionisms: From the 'Lost Atlantis' to the New Jerusalem." Brown University, Conference on Non-Zionist Jewish Traditions.

2024

October 9
"A Year After October 7: Historical Backdrop, Future Prospects." With Hussein Ibish. Case Western Reserve University.

September 25
"A Year After October 7: Historical Backdrop, Future Prospects." With Hussein Ibish. Notre Dame University.

September 24
"We Stand Against Hate Conversation: A Discourse On Israel and Palestine." With Hussein Ibish. Brooklyn College.  

September 24
"A Year After October 7: Historical Backdrop, Future Prospects." With Hussein Ibish. Stony Brook University. 
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February 19
"A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine." Part III (with Hussein Ibish): 1967-present. Fordham University. 

February 18
​"From Independence/Nakba to October 7 and its Aftermath." With Hussein Ibish. Evanston Interfaith Clergy.

February 17
"From the Origin of Zionism to the Fateful Year of 1948." With Hussein Ibish. Evanston Interfaith Clergy. 

February 15
"Will Zion be Redeemed by Justice? Shifting Attitudes Toward Israel Among U.S. Jews." Portland State University. 

January 23
"A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine." Part II (with Hussein Ibish): 1948-1967. Fordham University.

2023
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December 6
"How Did We Get Here?: A Deep Dive into the History of Israel and Palestine." Part I (with Hussein Ibish). Fordham University. 

November 21
"Understanding the Israel-Gaza Conflict: Causes, Conduct, and Consequences."  UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. 

2020

November 10
"The Schemel Forum: Antisemitism Past, Present, Future." University of Scranton. 

2019

April 2
"The History of Israel-Palestine: Peering into the Future." With Hussein Ibish. University of Scranton. 

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.

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." The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

November 13

"History as Consolation." The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

November 17
"History as Witness." The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem.

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2013

October 9

"German Jews and Modernity." 
Valley Beth Shalom.

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

October 28
"Kitaj's Life and Passions." Panel Discussion with Tracy Bartley, Derek Boshier, David N. Myers, and Paul Holdengraber. La Louver Gallery. 

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


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

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

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


2012

October 31

"Kitaj -- Commentary on an Eccentric Jewish Life." Jewish Museum Berlin. 

September 25
"A Middle East Update." University of Scranton.
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2009

October 5

"Israel/Palestine: A Tale of Two Truths." University of Scranton.

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