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Past Programs at the Center for Jewish History

Welcome to the CJH Program Archive Vault. Here you will find audio and video streams of select events at the Center for Jewish History.

Jewish Paths to Emancipation: Struggles for Citizenship Across Revolutionary Europe

The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire

Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds

Tears Over Russia: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine's Pogroms

Galicia on Our Mind: The Role of Regionalism in New York's Jewish Immigrant Community, 1890-1938

Homes of the Past: The Story of a Lost Museum

A 'Feminist' Jewish Department Store in Imperial Berlin?: Kaufhaus N. Israel

Zabar's: A Family Story: Three Generations in Conversation

Family History Today: Ask a Genealogy Librarian – Research in Archives Around the World

The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America

Russia's War on Ukraine: Perspectives from Jewish History

Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation

Family History Today: Arolsen Archives - History, Exploration and Online Access

Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

UNDER JERUSALEM: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City

Jewish Dress and Cultural History - What You Can Learn from Grandma's Photos

Remembering William Helmreich

Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

Are There New Ways of Reading the Bible in the 21st Century?

Pogroms: A Documentary History

Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy

Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows: A Conversation with Author Arthur Lubow

Inside Dirty Dancing: A Conversation with Screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein

The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction

American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

Family History Today: Creative Nonfiction Writing for Genealogists

Out of the Box: Snapshots of a Life

The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams

Family Affairs: East West Street and the Ratline

X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II

“Hear Their Cry:” Understanding the Jewish Orphan Experience

On Jewish Studies Scholars and Their Political Activism and Public Engagement

Contextualizing the Jewish Orphan Experience: Bernice Lerner's All the Horrors of War and Marlene Trestman's Unfortunate Fortunates

Multigenerational Family Storytelling Workshop

A Tradition of Talent: Jewish Opera Singers and the Patterns That Shaped Their Careers

Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream

Family History Today: Researching your Family History in Israel from Home

Family Affairs: Writings Parents' Stories

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

Hidden Heretics Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age

Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union

Not Antigone’s Heirs: Soviet Yiddish and Vernacular Holocaust Memory Culture

Family Affairs: Jewish Ruptures, Mourning, and Belonging

Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: Emile Bocian in Chinatown

Family History Today: What’s New with Yad Vashem’s Shoah Names Database?

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 with author/historian Scott D. Seligman

Family Affairs: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Personal Histories

Family History Today: Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to the Rescue in Shanghai: From 1941 to 1951

Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader

Family History Today: Donating Your Family Papers – How, When, Where and Why?

Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians Before the Holocaust

FAMILY AFFAIRS: Writing Personal Histories

Midwives, Musicians, Soldiers, Rabbis: Whose stories will become Jewish history?

Family History Today: Portuguese Citizenship - Reconnecting with your Sephardic Iberian Ancestors

Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South with Sue Eisenfeld

Out of the Box: Snapshots of a Life

0:02 / 1:22:25 Family History Today: Reading between the Lines in your Family’s Papers

From the Inquisition to The Mishiguene Restaurant: The Latin American Jewish Food Story

Being Heumann with Judy Heumann

Family History Today: Jewish Refugees & the U.S.-Mexico Border

The Lost Family with Libby Copeland

Identity in the Throes of Crisis

Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

Living in Liminal Spaces: Refugees in Italian Displaced Persons Camps, 1945-1951

Jewish Thought and Messianism in the Colonial Puritan Imagination: The Case of Judah Monis

Stan Lee: A Life in Comics

War Orphans Find Home: Child Holocaust Survivors and US Adoptions

Strange New World: Time in David Bergelson’s Literary Work

Jewish and Christian Passover Haggadot as Sites of Interfaith Engagement

Blood Libel: On the Trail of Antisemitic Myth

Stories of New York: City College | Part I: The “Jewish Harvard” and a World of Ideas, MORNING

Stories of New York: City College | Part I: The "Jewish Harvard" and a World of Ideas, AFTERNOON

Family History Today: Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering Women

Stories of New York: City College | Part II: The City Game

Personal Archiving 101 - Preserving your Digital Memories

The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia

History Behind the Headlines: Socialism

CJHTalks: Phil Rosenthal in Conversation with Marjorie Ingall

Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey

Out of the Box: Paint, Pray, Love

Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States

Desire, Envy, and the Jewish-Christian Borderzone

Hamill and Haberman | Stories of New York

"A person is only forgotten when their name is forgotten" - The German Stolpersteine

Death Records for Genealogical Research

Out of the Box: El Torero de la Torah or the Bullfighter from Brooklyn

First Person: Fred Guttenberg - A Dad's Mission After Parkland

Bucharest Diary: Ambassador Alfred H. Moses with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

Using FamilySearch for Jewish Research

From Swastika to Jim Crow - Director Q&A

First Person: Jason Stanley

First Person: Matti Friedman

Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

Short Talks on Big Subjects: The Treaty of Versailles

Out of the Depths by Chaim Potok

Monish: A Musical Tale of Talmud and Temptation

First Person: Jamie Bernstein

History Matters: Jews, Politics, and the 2018 Elections

First Person: Margalit Fox in Conversation with Ruth Franklin

Short Talks on Big Subjects: The U.S. Supreme Court

Searching for Jewish Heritage with Joseph Berger

History Matters: Professor Jonathan Sarna and Jane Eisner

Jews in Space: Meet Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman

Israel Diaspora Relations: Past, Present and Future

History Matters: Ruth Wisse

Singing and Laughing Against Fascism

Mysteries of the Bible: Biblical Archaeology

History Matters: Prof. Todd Gitlin

Triangle Fire: See You in the Streets

History Matters: Prof. Deborah Lipstadt

History Matters: Prof. Jan Gross

The Book of Separation

Reversing Oblivion

Hebrew: A Holy Language

News and Journalism in the Age of Trump

Liberty and Facts: Isaiah Berlin in the Age of Trump

Oxford and the Printing of Judeo-Arabic

In Plain Sight: Bard Professor Justus Rosenberg

Jewish Teammates in Baseball

Civil rights activist Julian Bond on the Rosenwald fund.

Historian Hasia Diner on Rosenwald

Author Eli Evans on why Julius Rosenwald is not well known.

Portugal and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of World War II

Hungary After the Holocaust

Cultural Context of Brisket

Brisket as Part of Jewish Experience

Jews in Book Publishing

Jewish Food In Israel

Gefilte Fish: Iconic Jewish Food

Jewish Lawyers in the Civil Rights Movement