The 2025 Phyllis W. and Rabbi Barry D. Cytron Lecture in Jewish Studies with Jordan Rebekah Katz (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
“Midwives on the Margins: Jewish Women and Civic Medicine in Early Modern Europe”
March 17, 2025
Book Talk with Prof. Leah Garrett (Hunter College, CUNY)
“X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II”
February 4, 2025
The 2024 Tobias Lecture in Jewish Studies with Marina Mogilner (Univ. of Illinois Chicago)
Book Talk: A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness
March 5, 2024
The 2023 Stanley I. Kutler Lectures in American Jewish Studies with Riv-Ellen Prell (Univ. of Minnesota)
“University Students in the 1930s: Antisemitism and Racism on Midwestern Campuses”
November 6, 2023
“The Jewish Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s: A Struggle to Democratize and Transform American Jewish Life”
November 7, 2023
The 2023 Darren M. Latimer Series on Jews and Sports with Rich Cohen
“Sid Luckman and the Creation of the Modern Quarterback”
October 26, 2023
The 2023 Weinstein/Minkoff Lecture in Israel Studies with Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“A Holiday for All? On Celebrations, Collectives, and Israeli Identity”
October 9, 2023
The 2023 Paul J. Schrag Lecture with Marc Volovici (Univ. of Haifa)
“Jewish Nationalism and the Quest to Turn German into a Foreign Language”
April 19, 2023
The Inaugural Phyllis W. and Rabbi Barry D. Cytron Lecture Series in Jewish Studies with Sandra Fox (New York University)
“Jewish Summer Camps and Yiddish Culture in Postwar America”
March 23, 2023
Lecture with Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris
“Assessing the Significance of Left-Wing Antisemitism: Intimacy, Disappointment and Obsession”
February 28, 2023
Made possible by the Wiseman Fund
Lecture with Geneviève Zubrzycki (University of Michigan)
“Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival”
February 22, 2023
The Inaugural Darren M. Latimer Series on Jews and Sports with Dan Grunfeld
“By the Grace of the Game: The World’s Only Journey from Auschwitz to the NBA”
October 20, 2022
Book Talk with Prof. Magda Teter (Fordham University)
“Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth”
February 8, 2022
Made possible by the Wiseman Fund
Lecture with Rabbi Matthew Kaufman, PhD (Congregation Kehillat Israel)
“Science and Secularization in a Jewish Key”
November 16, 2021
Lecture in Honor of Rachel Feldhay Brenner z"l
Shoshana Ronen (University of Warsaw) on “Post-Holocaust Hebrew and Polish Poetry”
November 9, 2021
The 2021 Stanley I. Kutler Lectures in American Jewish Studies with Laura A. Leibman (Reed College)
“Women’s Things:
The Art of the Jewish Family”
October 18, 2021
“Rethinking Jews and Race:
A Multiracial Jewish Family in Early America”
October 19, 2021
Book Talk with Dr. Bernice Lerner
Dr. Bernice Lerner, in conversation with Professor Francine Hirsch, presents her newest book in a talk entitled, “Weaving Disparate Narratives: Behind the Scenes of Bergen-Belsen’s Liberation.”
You can read more about her book, All the Horrors of War, here.
April 29, 2021
"Reading 'Shpinoza': A Heretic in Yiddish and Hebrew" (March 18, 2021)
Warren Zev Harvey (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
“Jacob Klatzin:
Spinoza’s Heretical Hebrew Translator”
Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University)
“Should the Excommunication of Spinoza Be Lifted? Hebrew and Yiddish Perspectives, 1927-1956″
Allan Nadler (Drew University, emeritus)
“Jacob Shatsky: Spinoza’s Heretical Yiddish Propagator”
Keren Mock (Sciences Po Paris/University of Paris)
“A Reading of the Last Sentence of the Ethics:
From Spinoza to Scholem”
Annette Aronowicz (Franklin & Marshall College, emerita)
“A Jewish Communist Caught Between Loyalty and Betrayal: Spinoza in the Cold War Context”
The 2021 Paul J. Schrag Lecture with James Q. Whitman (Yale)
“The American Influence on Nazi Race Law: Assessing U.S. Responsibility”
February 11, 2021
Reading and Q&A with Francine Hirsch
Professor Francine Hirsch, in conversation with Tony Michels, presents her newest book, “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II.”
October 12, 2020
2020 Tobias Lectures with Moshe Halbertal (NYU & Hebrew University)
“The Biblical Book of Samuel and the Birth of Politics: Two Faces of Political Violence”
Oct. 7, 2020
“Is a Jewish Democratic State Possible?”
Oct. 8, 2020
2019 Greenfield Summer Institute – Selected Lectures
Jonathan Z. S. Pollack (MATC and UW-Madison)
“Jewish Philanthropy at UW-Madison”
Jordan Rosenblum (UW-Madison)
“Business, Labor, and Social Justice in the Talmud”
Skye Doney (UW-Madison)
“The Mosse Family and German Jewish Philanthropy”
Marina Zilbergerts (UW-Madison)
“The Philanthropic Legacy of Moses Montefiore”
Tony Michels (UW-Madison)
“American Jews in the Shmateh Trade”
2017 Greenfield Summer Institute – Selected Lectures
Sunny Yudkoff (UW-Madison)
Audio recording
“Sick Jewish Writers: The Art and Science of Writing with Tuberculosis”
Jordan Ellenberg (UW-Madison)
Audio recording
“The Strange and Mathematically Troubling Story of the Torah Codes”
Selected Lectures, Academic Year 2016-17
Steven Zipperstein (Stanford)
Audio recording
“Pogrom: Kishinev and the tilt of history”
A lecture given as the 1026 Tobias Lecture
Roger Horowitz (Univ. of Delaware)
Audio recording
“Is Kosher a brand? Ruminations on the intersections of Jewish Law and the Secular Marketplace”).
A lecture given as the 2017 Kutler Lectures
Alisa Solomon (Columbia)
Audio recording
“From Folkshrayber to Broadway and Back: How Fiddler Became Folklore”
A lecture given at the Sholem Aleichem Conference (November 12-13, 2017)
2015 Greenfield Summer Institute - Selected Lectures
Eitan Kensky (Stanford)
“A Tale of Two Meyers: Notes on the Jew-Villain in America”
Nora Rubel (University of Rochester)
“Recipes for the Melting Pot: Reading The Settlement Cook Book”
Steve Stern (Skidmore College)
“Creative Amnesia, or the Persistence of Magic: On the Relationship Between Literature and Folklore in the Jewish Context”
Steven Nadler (UW-Madison)
“How to Read the Bible: Maimonides vs. Spinoza”