Greenfield Summer Institute Recordings (2025)

Monday, July 14

• “Yiddish as a Comic Foil in American Comedy”
  Eddy Portnoy (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/PngfP66xSBs
• “The Story of Nittel Nacht: A Jewish Christmas Tradition”
  Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (University of Michigan)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/95RgN4Rn2gA
• Film Screening: A Serious Man (2009)
  Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
  • Unfortunately, we can’t show this film on Zoom due to copyright law. However, you can rent this film online for less than $4 at any of the following streaming services:
    • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.2ea9f6f8-c5f7-37db-c0a4-2401d2b8a1dd?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb
    • Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/a-serious-man/umc.cmc.3g548zz0bd9xe36577es6w8wj?action=play
    • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DObe3tA5I
• “Serious Men: The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man in Conversation with the Book of Job”
  Jeremy M. Hutton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/oHsOPE3TBh4

Tuesday, July 15

• “Beyond Driving Miss Daisy: Southern Jews and the Long Civil Rights Movement”
  Shari Rabin (Oberlin College)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/S0cjjEJyRzE?feature=shared
• “Reading Jewish Films as Jewish Texts”
  Mark Leuchter (Temple University)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/8lq9EPicNVg?feature=shared
• “Poetry of the Periphery: Mizrahi & Ethiopian Israeli Poetry of Contemporary Israel”
  Bryan K. Roby (University of Michigan)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/sGjjXBGUULw?feature=shared
• Film Screening: Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies, and the American Dream (1997)
  Directed by Simcha Jacobovici & Stuart Samuels
  • Film available for rental on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUjmc-zHeNI

Wednesday, July 16

• “Building Paradise: Jewish Developers in the Making of South Florida’s Leisure Landscape”
  Anna Andrzejewski (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/TDZMuda5NIE?feature=shared
• “Ancient Popular Culture? Jews and Graffiti in the Mediterranean and Beyond”
  Karen Stern-Gabbay (CUNY Graduate Center)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/tOLOk6XvznM
• “The Cabaretesque in Jewish Music”
  Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)
  • Recording: coming soon!
• “When We Remembered Zion: Jewish Songs of Love, Loss, and Life”
  Philip V. Bohlman, with Musicians from the UW-Madison School of Music
  • Recording: coming soon!

Thursday, July 17

• “Recycling Recipes and Jewishness in the 1980s”
  Jonathan Z. S. Pollack (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/tG6aMkdBAiA?feature=shared
• “Why Do Jewish Dogs Prefer Gaines-Burgers?”
  Kerri P. Steinberg (Otis College of Art and Design)
  • Recording: https://youtu.be/cyqPQp_B9xg?feature=shared