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The AJC has launched ajcarchives.org, a massive online archive that contains materials from AJC's last hundred years. The website features speeches, radio programs, commercials, articles and much more. See and hear Bella Abzug, George Burns, Gerson Cohen, Abba Eban, Hank Greenberg, Mordecai Kaplan, Golda Meir, Arthur Miller, Molly Picon, Neil Simon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Rosalyn Yalow and much more.
Amos Oz: Israel - Peace and War
Amos Oz, acclaimed Israeli novelist, peace activist, and professor at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, speaks about life in Israel. Princeton University, November 10, 2003.
BBC reporter Patrick Gordon Walker was among the press corps during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Northern Germany on April 15, 1945. Over the next few weeks, he documented what he saw, recording the first Sabbath ceremony openly conducted on German soil since the beginning of the war, interviewing survivors, and speaking to British Tommies about what they had witnessed at liberation.
Beth Hatefutsoth - Museum of the Jewish People
Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, exists to convey the story of the Jewish people from the time of their expulsion from the Land of Israel 2,500 years ago to the present. Located in Tel Aviv, Israel, it relates the unique story of the continuity of the Jewish people through exhibition, education and cultural endeavours, providing multiple avenues of personal historical identification. Our hope is that by sharing the unique story of Jewish endurance, new generations may find the key to their own. Many come and experience: young and old, religious and secular, Israelis and tourists, civilians and soldiers.
These podcasts were created from recordings of Louis Brandsdorfer’s mother, who recollected her experiences of the Shoah. She describes how many members of her family, from a small Polish town near the German border, died, while she and her sister survived. The quality of the recordings varies.
This website offers outstanding and timely lectures and music from the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Topics include considerations of Freud, anti-Semitism, Klezmer, Baruch Spinoza, and Jews and genes, among others. The center is a joint venture of the American Jewish Historical Society, the Leo Baeck institute, YIVO Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the American Sephardi Federation.
Center for Online Judaic Studies
The Center for Online Judaic Studies (COJS), is an organization which is revolutionizing the study of Jewish history with cutting-edge internet and digital imaging technologies, including webcasting. Their interactive encyclopedia, vast database of primary sources, multimedia presentations, and innovative educational materials serve as resources for students, teachers, adult learners, and scholars.
Centrality Of Jewish Values In Shaping The Jewish Future
Professor Calvin Goldscheider of Brown University presents this talk on Jewish values based on his interviews with European Jews who survived WWII. Produced by University of Washington, May 2000.
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
James Carroll's book, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, is both a powerful and disturbing analysis of the history of Christian, especially Roman Catholic, dealings with the Jews. He argues that Christians took anti-Semitic forks in the road when they might well have written a less tragic history by following another road.
Countering Holocaust Denial in Arab and Muslim Societies
On October 20, 2006, Robert Satloff, Akbar Ahmed, and Gregg Rickman addressed The Washington Institute’s Special Policy Forum. Dr. Satloff is the Institute’s executive director and author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands. Dr. Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun chair of Islamic Studies at American University and former Pakistani high commissioner to Great Britain. Dr. Rickman is special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism with the State Department.
Dennis Ross - at the World Affairs Council of Northern California
Ambassador Dennis Ross' address on "The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for the Middle East Peace", delivered September 30, 2004. For more than 12 years, Ambassador Ross helped shape U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process. Here, he discusses the lessons he learned and the advice he has offered for bringing peace to the region.
Folksbiene Yiddish Theater: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits
The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, the longest-running Yiddish theatre company in the world, was founded in 1915. It was sustained by two of the company's veteran members – Morris Adler and Zypora Spaisman. In this American talker piece, Adler and Spaisman remember the half century they each spent with the theater.
A collection of over 4,200 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is part of the manuscripts and archives collections at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.
Haven to Home: An American Journey (Library of Congress)
This live performance tells the stories of Emma Lazarus, an immigrant's daughter who became known as Lady Liberty's poet, and Irving Berlin, an immigrant who became one of America's best loved composers.
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2005
During the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day official ceremony that takes place at Yad Vashem, six torches representing the six million murdered Jews are lit. The online testimonies and stories of each of the torchlighters are presented here. Yad Vashem, which produces this site, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust.
Iraqi Jewish Archives Lack Funds for Restoration
“All Things Considered,” NPR, May 9, 2005. As related in this audio piece, in 2003, U.S. forces discovered a cache of documents and sacred texts that had belonged to Iraq's once-thriving Jewish community in a flooded basement of Saddam Hussein's secret police. The records were transported to the U.S., where efforts to restore them are stalled by a shortage of funds.
Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs
News and background reports in both audio and video formats provide insightful presentations on topics related to Israel’s political and diplomatic situation.
Jadio is a Jewish streaming audio site providing on-demand delivery of Jewish lectures and discussions authored by some of the world's most compelling and inspiring Jewish scholars, including Kenneth Adelman, Yehuda Bauer, Dr. Sara Bloomfield, Shmuley Boteach, Abba Eban, and Esther Jungreis
Jewish Book in America - Library of Congress
Jonathan Sarna, who here discusses the Jewish book in America, is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and chairs the Academic and Editorial Board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. He also is the author most recently of American Judaism: A History.
The Jewish Giant began with photographer Jenny Carchman’s search to uncover a story that remained secret for 25 years: the story of the very large man whom Diane Arbus photographed towering over an older couple. The caption read, "Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx , NY, 1970,” and this man was Jenny’s cousin. The Jewish Giant is a story of suffering, of not fitting in, of the body betraying itself, and of the bizarre life-twists that can subsume a family.
Jewish Heritage on Beacon Hill
Ellen Smith, lecturer in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, discusses the history of Jewish immigration in Boston. Boston's first Jewish congregation established a synagogue in the South End in 1852. By 1907, Boston's Jewish population had grown to 60,000 with many families settling in the West End. The Vilna congregation began to hold services on Beacon Hill in 1903 and remained there until 1985.
Jewish History by Rabbi Berel Wein
Rabbi Berel Wein is a noted scholar, historian, speaker, and educator who is admired the world over for his books and cassette tapes – particularly on Jewish History.
Jewish Museum – National Jewish Archive Of Broadcasting
The National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting is a valued component of the Jewish Museum of New York's permanent collection, and it is the largest and most comprehensive body of broadcast materials on 20th-century Jewish culture in the U.S.
Jewish Museum - Online Exhibitions
Online exhibitions at The Jewish Museum of New York give viewers opportunities for in-depth, interactive encounters with the collection, as well as with featured special exhibitions.
Jewish Museum Berlin Reflective Podcast
The Jewish Museum Berlin Reflective Podcast is a result of the summer 2006 Apple Distinguished Educator Global Awareness Institute. The Jewish Museum Berlin presents an amazing venue to help understand the progression of the German-Jewish people over the course of the last 2,000 years. This podcast offers listeners thought-provoking reflections by educators who visited the museum as part of an Apple Distinguished Educator Global Awareness Institute.
Jewish National & University Library - National Sound Archives
Nineteen songs we love to hear from the early days of Israel – from the recording collection of the national sound archives.
Jewish Washington - Library of Congress
Laura Cohen Apelbaum and Wendy Turman of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington spoke about the history of the Jewish community in Washington, D.C. The talk also included images from the new book, "Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community." The program was sponsored by the Library's African and Middle Eastern Division.
Judah L. Magnes Museum of Berkeley
The Magnes is a museum of art and history focused on the Jewish experience. The Museum demonstrates a commitment to both tradition and experimentation through wide-ranging collections, original exhibitions, provocative programs, and research facilities, including the largest history center relating to the Jews in the American West. Here are public lectures on wideranging topics, from "Is there Intelligent Art in Outer Space? to "Through the Eye of the Needle: Fabric Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz".
Lehrhaus Judaica is a unique, non-denominational Jewish studies adult school. Every course is open to the general public, and all interested adults are welcome, regardless of age, religion, or ethnicity. Our faculty consists of local university professors, advanced Ph.D. students, rabbis, and other experienced educators, as well as visiting scholars from major universities in the U.S. and abroad. We offer engaging seminars and lecture courses throughout the Bay Area on Jewish history, philosophy, sociology, theology, literature, Hebrew and Yiddish, and the arts.
Michael Oren discusses "America and the Shaping of the MiddleEast"
Venue: Commonwealth Club - San Francisco, CA. From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the Marines' conquest of Fallujah, the U.S. has been dramatically involved in the Middle East. A senior fellow at Jerusalem's Shalem Center, Oren explores the diverse and remarkable ways in which Americans have interacted with this alluring, yet sometimes hostile, land.
Michael Oren Interviewed by Harry Kreisler
Welcome to a Conversation with History, a program hosted by Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley. The guest today is Michael B. Oren who is a historian and a novelist. His publications include Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, and a novel, Reunion. He is a senior fellow at the Shalom Center in Jerusalem.
Middle East Media Research Institute
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap that exists between the West and the Middle East. It provides timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.
At the turn of the century, Jewish immigrants poured into towns like Greenwood, Mississippi, seeking relief from the stifling tenement life up north. By the 1930s, Jews formed the backbone of the merchant class in hundreds of these towns. Soon after, though, young Jewish people began leaving, opting for the larger cities. By the early 1950s, this small-town Jewish exodus was in full swing. Today, the exodus is nearly complete. Recorded in Greenwood, Mississippi, December 20, 1991, on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
National Sound Archives Digitization Project
Jewish National and University Library, Hebrew University - Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel. The library collects books, periodicals, manuscripts, documents, recordings, maps, and pictures that represent the history of the Jewish people.
Every year, some of the world’s most interesting writers, artists, and scholars speak at the National Yiddish Book Center. The Center offers complete sound recordings of these presentations. Just click on the title you want to hear and the lecture will begin!
Nostra Aetate: Seeking Understanding in Our Age - GeorgetownUniversity
On October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council issued a statement that called for increased relations with non-Christian religions. This revolutionary document, named Nostra Ætate for the first two words in its original Latin text, translated as "In our age," marked a huge transformation not only in the history of Jewish-Christian relations, but of relations with Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and many others.
This is a unique series of radio programs that shows the progress of American Jews from a trickle of poor immigrants to today's thriving community of six million. The programs offer interviews with Elie Wiesel, Abraham Foxman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michael Steinhardt, Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr., and others.
Ours to Fight For: American Jews in World War II
To accompany the new temporary exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, this is an online exhibit for “Ours To Fight For: American Jews In The Second World War”. It features testimony, artifacts, and photographs that illustrate the unique experiences of Jews during World War II.
This site of The Rhodes Jewish Museum provides information regarding the historical exhibition located in the rooms formerly used as the women's prayer rooms at the "Kahal Shalom" synagogue. The website also offers other interesting subjects that are unique to the history of the Jews of Rhodes.
Road To Peace: A Conversation With Leah Rabin
Leah Rabin reflects on her life, the life of her late husband, Israel’s former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, and Israel. She delivered her talk, which is captivating, important, and informative, at the Hillel Jewish Student Center, UCLA Jewish Student Union, February 22, 1999.
Royal Court Preacher and the Hebrew Book (Library of Congress)
In his talk at the Library of Congress, "The Royal Court Preacher and the Hebrew Book: Early Enlightenment and Hebrew Publishing in Prussia, 1700-1750," Menachem Schmelzer examines the role of an influential figure in the Prussian court, Christian theologian and scholar D.E. Jablonski, who founded the Hebrew press in Berlin in 1690.
Sir Martin Gilbert, with Beryl Wajsman of the Inst
Author of more than 70 works, Sir Martin is the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill. But he may very well be called the official historian of our era. In this broadcast he brilliantly surveys a range of issues including Churchill’s legacy; modern leadership; appeasement, the Middle East, and the enduring lesson of the Holocaust.
Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles
Hailed by The New York Times as "a lesson on how to connect the eye to heart and mind," the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles has established itself as one of the world's most dynamic Jewish cultural institutions, and among the most prominent cultural venues in the United States. The museum has a number of interesting podcasts to choose from, based upon public lectures at the museum.
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
The Steven Spielberg Jewish film archive started to make its films accessible online in 2002; today, it contains more than 300 full films viewable over the Internet, for the purposes of study, research, or production. Films cover topics including Jewish communities, Holocaust, pre-State, State of Israel, and Hebrew University.
Stuart Eizenstat - Harvard University Great Negotiator of 2003
On October 1, 2003, Former Deputy Treasury Secretary and author of Imperfect Justice Stuart Eizenstat received the annual Great Negotiator Award from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University. His remarks about leading negotiations for Holocaust restitutions on behalf of the Clinton Administration are of particular interest.
The Holocaust & the Importance of Museums
Anthony Platt's Bloodlines is the story of how an original copy of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, signed by Hitler and turned over to General George S. Patton, ended up in the Huntington Library vault and remained there – unknown to the world - for 55 years. Platt discusses wartime looting, Patton’s bigotry, the Holocaust, eugenics, Jewish identity, and the responsibility of museums and cultural centers.
There Are No Fears (Library of Congress)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a poet, novelist, film maker, and professor of literature and cinema, recited his poetry in both English and Russian in a program titled “There Are No Fears.” He was born in Siberia, where his ancestors were sent into exile at the end of the 19th century. His 1961 poem "Babi Yar," a denunciation of both Nazi and Russian anti-Semitism, brought him international recognition. Yevtushenko was awarded the American Liberties Medallion of the American Jewish Committee in 1991.
Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum And Osip Mandelstam
Professor Michael Stanislawski analyzes two of the most famous and controversial autobiographies penned by Russian Jews: the late 19th-century Hebrew writer and critic M. L. Lilienblum and the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam.
On January 24, 2005, the UN General Assembly held an unprecedented session commemorating the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. UN Secretary Kofi Annan, Nobel prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and many other dignitaries spoke. The UN Special Session was accompanied with a Virtual Exhibition about the Holocaust.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. offers a unique collection of materials concerning the Holocaust. It also contains important collections about crimes against humanity carried out in other times and places. Online catalogs provide partial access to some of the museum’s collections. Webcasts are available in the film and video, music, and oral history collections. The multimedia archive of events also holds important resources.
A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stimulates leaders and citizens to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. A public-private partnership, federal support guarantees the Museum’s permanence, and donors nationwide make possible its educational activities and global outreach.
What Went Wrong... and Why (Library of Congress)
Bernard Lewis of Princeton University and Mohammed Arkoun of the Sorbonne University discuss relations between the Middle East and the Western nations. May 7, 2002.
Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs'and Heroes' RemembranceAuthority
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust. Containing the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.
The exhibits on this site feature the Yiddish Radio Project radio documentaries that were first broadcast on NPR's “All Things Considered”, with rare Yiddish radio clips, archival photographs, and various ephemera from a forgotten radio universe.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
The YIVO archives holds over 22 million documents, photographs, recordings, posters, films, videotapes, and other artifacts. They comprise the world's largest collection of materials related to the history and culture of East European and American Jewry. YIVO has the foremost collection of books and documents written in Yiddish.
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