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Search by Lecture Title Gender and the Holocaust: Continuing Research and New Interpretations The Making of the YIVO Encyclopedia The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Out of Tragedy Comes Social Justice "If He Knows to Make a Child...": Memories of Birth and Baby-Killing in Jewish Testimony Narratives 'Doing Justice' and Post Holocaust Jewish Identity 1948 as a Jewish World War A Biblical Perspective on the Haggadah A Family Feud: Sarah & Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael--Comparative Text Study in the Bible & Qur'An A Galician Jewish Wine Merchant in the 18th Century A Liberal Approach to Pluralistic Jewish Religious Education A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan and American Orthodoxy A New Attempt to Define Jewish Identity Abraham Joshua Heschel as a Philosopher All of Jewish History in One Hour and a Little More America's Jewish Women from the Colonial Era to the Present American Jewish Visions of 'The Holy Land' American Judaism's Contemporary Scoreboard: Status and Identity in the Twenty-first Century American Orthodoxy's Era of Non-Observance: 1900-1960 American Shtetl: Kiryas Joel, New York An Intimate Rivalry: The Jews under Classical Islam An Old Faith in the New World: The History of American Judaism Ancient Judaim and the Religions of Other People Ancient Judaism and Globalization Andalusi Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sefarad as Tropes of Muslim and Jewish Culture Anglo-Jewish Thought Anne Frank from Diary to Book and Beyond Anthologizing Contemporary Jewish Culture or What Brings Amos Oz together with Judy Blume? Art in a Place of Prayer Ba'alot Teshuvah: Revivalists or Traditionalists? Baby Boomers and their Jewish Summer Camps: The Making of a Cultural Revolution Baruch Spinoza: Last Medieval Heretic or First Secular Jew? Battling for Spain: Yiddish Writers in Spain Before and During the Civil War Better the Devil You Know: Feminist Women, Orthodoxy and Choice Beyond Belief, Behavior and Belonging: Can You Still Be Jewish? Beyond Fiddler, Beyond Foer: Russian Jewish life as it was at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Bezalel the Tabernacle Builder and the Art of Building in Late Antique Judaism Bialik's Sefer Ha'agadah (Book of Aggadah): Triumph or Tragedy? Biblical Views of Intermarriage Blood and Belief: the Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians Blood and the Discourses of Nazi Antisemitism Blood in Modern Jewish Culture Body Politics: Images of Masculinity in Modern Israeli Fiction Brothers from Afar: Apostates and Reversion to Judaism in Medieval Europe Budgets, Boycotts, and Babies: Jewish Women in the Great Depression Building History: The National Museum of American Jewish History Can Jews Proselytize in Good Faith? Changing Paradigms in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Critique of the Erosion of Support for Israel in the American Academy Charitable Choices among American Jews Childhood in the Fiction of David Grossman City of Promises: A History of New York Jews Civics Lessons: Jews and American National Holidays Coming to Terms with the 'Dark Past' in Poland and Lithuania Comparing America and Israel; Or, Can/should Israel be Americanized? Comparing Jewish Emancipation in Europe and America Constructing Memory in Jewish Liturgy Conversion to Judaism in the Modern Era Converts and Conversos: How Sephardic History Can Help People Understand 'Who Is a Jew' Corporal Modesty in Judaism and Islam Court Jews as Patrons of Art Daily Life Among the Jews of Ancient Babylonia David Grossman and the Moral Imagination of Israeli Literature Death and the Afterlife in Jewish Tradition Death and the Afterlife in Jewish Tradition Dickens and the Jews Distancing or Distress? American Jews' Changing Relationship with Israel Divine Law: A Tale of Two Concepts and Three Responses Documenting the Sephardic Past Does Israel Have a Post-Zionist Future? Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Medieval Europe Early Modern Jewish History and Thought Eat and Be Satisfied: Food and the Making of American Jewry Europe in American Jewish Imagination Feminist and Anti-Feminist Visions in the Bible Fighting for Rights: Conscription and Jewish Emancipation From Chosen People to People Who Choose: The Panorama of Diversity in American Jewry From Cursing the Christians to Eliminating Evil: The Censorship and Transformation of the Birkat HaMinim From Isaac Babel to Philip Roth: A Jewish Literary Tour of the Last Century From Jesus to Shylock: The Merchant of Venice in Theological Context From Peoplehood to Purposeful: The Emerging Identities of Younger Adult American Jews From Shylock to Cromwell: The Background of the Jews' Readmission to England From the Bible to The Rabbis: Late Biblical Texts as Transitional Gender and Jewish History Gender, Post Holocaust Memory and Political Identity Genesis as History/ Genesis as History and Myth George Washington's Correspondence with the Jews of Newport [text study] Gershom Scholem Between Kabbalah and Modernity GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation God's Critics: Ancient Perspectives on Morality and Biblical Law Hebrew and Hebraism: One of American Jewry's Best Kept Secrets History and the Politics of Memory How did the Bible become the Bible? How Do Jews and Muslims See Each Other? Classic and Contemporary Views of Jews and Muslims Toward the Other How Feminism Remade American Judaism How Golden was the Golden Age of Spain? Cordoba as Symbol and Reality How Jewish were Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and Theodore Herzl? How Popular Cultural Shaped Holocaust Memory in America How Tevye Learned to Fiddle How the Encounter with Classical Islam Reshaped Judaism How to Read the Bible Human Rights in the Jewish Tradition Humor in the Bible Hyphenated-Jews and the Anxiety of Identity In Search of American Jewish Heritage Interfaith Marriage and Jewish Journeys: What Does the Future Hold for American Jews? Is American Jewry 'Exceptional'? Is the Bible Fair? Is the Bible Kosher? Biblical Food Laws Is the Bible True? Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Biblical Interpretation?/How Do Jews Interpret the Bible? Israel: A State of Exception? Jesus as Aryan Hero: The Peculiar Conversion of Christianity into National Socialism during the Third Reich Jesus in the Talmud Jewish and Islamic Languages Jewish Berlin: Textual / Digital / Sacred / Provisional Jewish Culture in Germany Post-1989 Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy Jewish Denominationalism in the Modern Period Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages Jewish Families After Kristallnacht Jewish Feminism Jewish Food Jewish Harlem: Past and Present Jewish Identity Politics Jewish Marriage Contracts as Documents of Acculturation Jewish Photographers: Pictures of the Modern World Jewish Tales from the Responsa: Stories of Jews in a Legal Genre Jewish Women and Families in Nazi Germany Jewish Women and the Civil War Jewish Women in America: A History of Their Own Jewish, Samaritan and Christian Schools in Late Antique Palestine: Literary and Archaeological Evidence Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in the Twentieth Century Jews and Citizenship in French North Africa Jews and Money: Secrets of Success Jews and Muslims: The Historical Encounter Jews and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers and Global Commerce Jews Fighting Prejudice on American Radio, 1939-1955 Jews into Israelis: Zionism as a Revolution Jews of Morocco Jews Under Christendom, Jews Under Islam Jews, Germans, and Allies in Occupied Germany: Entangled Histories and Lost Memories Judaism and Islam: Fourteen Hundred Years of Intertwined Destiny? Judeo-Arabic Julian Tuwim: the Polish Heine Kabbalah and Science Kaddish - the Final Frontier: Jewish Ritual and American Television Drama Kosher/Halal Food Laws: Comparative Text Study in the Bible & Qur'An Land in Israel: Private Property or Public Trust? Law and the Bible Legal Realism and the Fashioning of Sectarians in Jewish Antiquity Lin Jaldati and Yiddish Behind the Iron Curtain Literature of the Holocaust: The Yiddish Difference Looking Ahead: American Judaism in the 21st Century Main Tendencies in Modern Jewish Thought Making American Jewish Men: Masculinity in the Immigrant Jewish World Making Sense of American Jewish Humor Making the Secular Sacred: Holocaust Narratives and Jewish Identity Making Trouble: The Subversive Tradition of Jewish Women Comedians Manasseh Sawed Isaiah with a Saw of Wood: An Ancient Legend in Jewish, Christian, Persian, and Arabic Sources Manuscripts, Books and E-books: The Future of Jewish Study Masada in Israeli Memory, Literature, and Popular Culture Medicine, Science, and Jewish Culture Mi Panama: A Memoir of Growing Up Modernity in Jewish History Monuments and Markers: Jewish Heritage in Brick and Stone Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Reflections on the Life and Thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust Musical Theater and American Holocaust Memory My Mother's Daughter, My Daughter's Mother: Adult Mothers and Their Daughters on Jewish Identity National Catastrophe in the History of Jewish Thought Nazi Persecution of Gay Men Never Again' the Universal and Particular Message in Post Holocaust Identity Narratives New Evidence for the Jewish-Christian Split from Asia Minor New Jewish Ritual No Generation of Silence: American Jews Remember the Holocaust, 1945-1967 Notions of Biblical Revelation On Being Feminist: Some Jewish Concerns On Biblical Translations Paradoxical Politics and Newly Orthodox Jewish Women Philip Roth and Contemporary American Literature Post-Holocaust Art Prayer in the Bible Precedent and Innovation in the Halakhic Process and the Implications for Modernity Primo Levi and the Holocaust Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture Pure or Applied? Competing Currents in the Writing of Jewish History Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago and American Classical Reform Judaism Rabbinic Prayer: Continuity and Discontinuity with the Bible Rabbis, Rebels, and Supreme Court Justices: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America Ready to Turn the World Upside Down: Radical Feminism and Jewish Women Redeeming Germany Reform Judaism: Past, Present, and Future Reimagining Antiquity in Israeli culture Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-Nienteenth-Century Germany: The Case of Rabbi Abraham Jakob Adler Rethinking Jewish Music: Exploring New Paradigms Right and Rite in the Bible S. Y. Agnon and the Work of Cultural Memory S.Y. Agnon and Franz Kafka: Jewish Modernists S.Y. Agnon: Master Storyteller Sculpting an American Jewish Hero: The Myths and Monuments of Haym Salomon Secularism as Denominational Judaism? Sefardi Exceptionalism Sephardic Families at War in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean Shtetl, Myth and Counter-myth in History, Literature, and Elsewhere Simon Dubnow and Modern Theories of Jewish History Soldiers, Symbols and Service: The Narratives of Jewish Patriotism Some Thoughts about Jewish Magic Song of Songs: Love and Sex in the Bible Spinoza and Other Dissenters in the Amsterdam Jewish Community Spinoza and the Modern Jewish Agenda Spirituality in the Talmud Suffering and Divine Justice in Rabbinic Judaism Symphony and Cacophony in the Bible Taglit-Birthright Israel/Engaging Jewish Young Adults with Israel and their Jewish Identity Tchotchkes: American Yiddish Material Culture after World War II That Obnoxious Order: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews The 'December Dilemma': Christmas in American Jewish Popular Culture The 'Jewish' Bill of Exchange: A Forgotten Chapter in European Debates about Jews and Capitalism The Abrogation of Torah Law: The Two Talmuds Compared The American Jewish Home Front During World War II: A View from New York The Army as a Jewish Career in the Modern World The Beginnings of Hasidism: New Views The Bible as an Ancient Near Eastern Text The Bible in Jewish Life The Bible in Popular Israeli Culture The book of Judges The book of Psalms The Cairo Geniza and the Majesty of the Ordinary The Cairo Geniza and the Majesty of the Ordinary The Christian Hebraists of the Renaissance and Reformation The Coconut on the Seder Plate: A Biography of the Contemporary Haggadah The Color of Jewish Life: Polychromy in the Art of Ancient Judaism The Desert as a Symbolic Landscape: Memory, Ecology, and Tourism The Desert, the 'Hebrew Bedouin,' and Desert Tourism in Israel The Dilemmas of Assimilation: Jewish Identity in the the Habsburg Monarchy in the Nineteenth Century The Disappearing Jewish (and woman) Subject in Recent Scholarship About Jews The Evolution of Jewish identity in Germany from the Enlightenment to the Present The Exodus from Egypt: Comparative Text Study in the Bible & Qur'An The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period The Future of Liberal Religious Judaism The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament: One Jewish Perspective The Historic Encounter of Muslims and Jews The Holocaust and Genocide: Why Wasn't There MORE Resistance? The Holocaust and Modernity Reconsidered The Holocaust on American Television The Holocaust: From the Margins to the Center in Western Popular Culture The Jewish Art of Spain The Jewish Canon and the Voice(s) of Authority The Jewish Fascination with Islam The Jewish Future in America: Musings of Social Scientist The Jewish Refugee Settlement in the Dominican Republic: 1940-45 The Jewish Role in Islamic Art The Jewish Soldier in Jewish Memory The Jewish Soldier in the 20th Century: From Participant to Victim The Jews Among the Greeks and the Romans The Jews of Poland and Russia: Myth and Reality The Jews of Sigmund Freud's Vienna The Jews of Vienna between Assimilation and Jewish Identity The Jews of Vienna, Prague, and Budapest The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: Redcliffe Nathan Salaman - Communal Notable and Race Scientist The Literary Afterlives of Anne Frank The Lower East Side and American Jewish Memory The Lower East Side in American Jewish Memory The Moses of Midrash: God's Partner or Adversary The Non-Jew in Jewish Prayer The Origins and Meanings of the Birkat HaMinim The Politics of the Neighborhood: Jewish Political Culture in the Great Depression The Problem of 'Chosenness' in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam The Rhetoric of Rabbinic Power in the Talmud The Rise and Fall of Israel's 'New History' The Samson Syndrome: The Horrors of Jewish Dating Reflected in American Film The Size and Character of the American Jewish Population/Is the U.S. Jewish Community Assimilating Away? The Sound of Jewish Life: Music and Judaism in Nineteenth Century America The State of the Field: State and Nation in Jewish Historiography The Ten Commandments in the Bible and in American Life The Tradition of Secular Jewish Thought The Unknown Jewish Artists of the Middle Ages Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind the Myth Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust To the Jews as a Nation': Clermont-Tonnerre, The French Revolution and the Career of a Quotation Transnational Jewish Refugee Stories: Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India as Sites of Relief and Refuge for European Jews during World War II Trauma and Storytelling in David Grossman's To the End of the Land Traveling to the Old Country: Yiddish and Hebrew Journalists Visiting Poland Immediately After World War II Tzedakah: Comparative Text Study in the Bible & Qur'An Uneasy Communion: Jewish and Christian Art in Medieval Spain Various topics on ethical issues related to the Holocaust Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture War, Trauma and Memory in Israeli Films We're No Angels: Striving for Perfection in Ancient Jewish Literature Were the Jews Germans? The Dilemmas of Jews in Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century What Does Religion Have to Do With Jewish Identity? What Happened to the Sephardim after 1492? What is 'Israel Studies'? What is Distinctive about Sephardic Jews? What makes Secular Jews Jewish? What Place the Holocaust in Contemporary Identity Narratives Among Young Adults in the US and Israel When Arabic was a Jewish Language When May We Kill our Brethren? Jews at War in Modern Europe Who Are the (Real) Chosen People?: The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Who Stood at Sinai? On The Limits of Loyalty Who Were the Prophets, and What Were They Trying to Do? Who were the Prophets? Whose Land is It Anyway? Theology and Secular Politics in the Land of Israel/Palestine Why (and How) We Made the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe and Why There is No Definite Article in the Title Why Be Jewish? 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AJS Distinguished Lecturers

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AJS lecture fee is $1,000. Speakers give one lecture per year on behalf of the Lectureship Program, and donate the lecture fee to the AJS. Host institutions will pay the set lecture fee directly to the AJS, in addition to covering all of the speaker’s travel and lodging expenses. All arrangements are to be made through the AJS office. Please contact Natasha Perlis, Program Manager, to discuss arrangements.

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Natasha Perlis
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