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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.

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
David N. Myers
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