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”