Recorded Programs
The Katz Center maintains an archive of recorded programs on a variety of topics connected to Judaic studies, with speakers that range from MacArthur Fellows to Nobel Prize winners to visiting scholars with expertise on an impressive breadth of topics. The videos are accessible to all audiences and are connected to Katz Center fellowship themes.
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A Nation on the Couch
December 8, 2019 | Germantown Jewish Centre
Featuring Keren Friedman-Peleg
Looking Again at Louis Kahn
October 29, 2019 | National Museum of American Jewish History
Featuring David B. Brownlee, Susan G. Solomon, William Whitaker, and Inga Saffron (moderator)
The Histories (Le Mancenillier)
October 20, 2019 | Beth Sholom Synagogue
Featuring David Hartt, Cole Akers, Sharon Johnston, and Stephen Prina
SIMS-Katz Lecture: Changing Minds: Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar
September 10, 2019 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring Fabrizio Lelli
SIMS-Katz Lecture: A Mahzor is a Mahzor is a Mahzor? Studying CAJS Rare MS 382
March 19, 2019 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring Elisabeth Hollender
Jews and Sufis: Shared Musical Traditions
March 17, 2019 | Old Pine Street Church
Featuring Edwin Seroussi, Katz Center & Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dünya Ensemble, including Burcu Güleç (voice), Robert Labaree (çeng & voice), George Lernis (percussion), and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (ud, ney, voice, & musical director). With Guest Joseph Alpar (santur, voiceker)
SIMS-Katz Lecture: Genizah Scribes at Work
April 25, 2018 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
The Generation of the Flood: Rabbinic Stories of Cleverness, Catastrophe, and Climate Change
April 24, 2018 | Beth Am Israel Congregation
Featuring Julia Watts Belser
States & Institutions (from "Science and Transformation in Jewish Culture," 24th Annual Gruss Colloquium)
April 22–23 2018 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring Yitzhaq Feder, Natalia Aleksiun, Sofia Grachova, Anat Mooreville, and David Barnes
From Vienna to New York: Memory of a Life in Two Worlds
April 17, 2018 | Annenberg School for Communication
Featuring Eric R. Kandel
SIMS-Katz Lecture: "No Longer Alien Residents": Italian Jewish Texts in the Late Renaissance
February 27, 2018 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring Alessandro Guetta
No God but Spinoza’s: Spiritual and Philosophical Influences on Einstein’s Thoughts
November 14, 2017 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe: Twenty-Five Years Later
October 26, 2017 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring David B. Ruderman
Science and Religion: Nature in Jewish Culture
September 18, 2017 | Gershman Y
Featuring Maiken Scott, David Shyovitz, Debra Glasberg Gail, and Mira Beth Wasserman
Culture Wars: Lessons from Jewish Interwar Europe, Part II
June 5, 2017 | The Gershman Y
Featuring Philipp von Wussow
Cracked Voices: Stories of Jewish Political Dissent and Fracture
April 25, 2017 | National Museum of American Jewish History
Featuring Sam Brody, Keren Soffer-Sharon, Daniel Mark, Lital Levy, Carole Zabar, and Eli Valley
SIMS-Katz Lecture: Tales of Three Texts
September 10, 2015 | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Featuring Tvi Langermann
