The 2021 Stanley 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”