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Becoming Shakespeare: The Printed Canon at the National Library of Israel

Dr Micha Lazarus and Dr Stefan Litt
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On Hebrew contemporary translations of Shakespeare

Dori Parnes and Ronen Sonis
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Lessons and Lineage: A Life of Learning

Dr. Zvi Leshem & Prof. Baruch Weiss
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Unlocking Shylock: Responding to Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'

Dr. Emmy Leah Zitter
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Jewish Women Migrating within and from Eastern Europe between the 1880s and 1930s

Dr. Aleksandra Jakubczak
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Eye to Zion - Women and Men Photograph Jerusalem, 1839-1970s

Dr. Shimon Lev, The Tower of David Museum Photography Curator
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Between the Burning of a Language and Its Birth. 90 Years Since the Berlin Book Burning.

Micha Ullman & Yigal Zalmona
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Israeli Contemporary Theatre and Shakespeare

Yair Sherman & Dori Parnes
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Modern Jewish Politics

Dr. Tom Navon, Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, Germany
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The Sarajevo Haggadah: a Masterpiece of Jewish Art and its Incredible Journey from Catalonia to Bosnia

Prof. Shalom Sabar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Asenath Barzani, The 16th Century Rosh Yeshiva from Kurdistan: Myth and Reality

Prof. Renée Levine Melamme, Schechter Institute, Jerusalem
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The Newton Watermark Project
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Technical approaches to dating Newton's manuscripts using watermarks

Huw Jones & Maciej Pawlikowski, Cambridge University Library
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The Talmud and #MeToo. A Lecture in Anticipation of the Fast of Esther and International Women's Day.

Dr. Mira Beth Wasserman
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Purim or the Holiday of St. Esther? Uncovering and Preserving Crypto-Jewish History

Genie Milgrom & Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia
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Five Shifts in Ukrainian Jewish Relations

Prof. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University, USA
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The Bakery - Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt

Dr. Karin Sczech, Erfurt, Germany
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The Newton Watermark Project
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Reconstruction of Newton's "Church History Complete"

Dr. Marc Adam Kolakowski, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Climate Change, Israel and the Middle East

Prof. Dan Rabinowitz, Tel Aviv University
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From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz: Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust

Prof. Devin E. Naar, University of Washington in Seattle
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How to look at a Beautiful Woman: Freud and Buber read the Talmud together

Prof. Admiel Kosman, University of Potsdam
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The Newton Watermark Project
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Newton's manuscripts and his working habits in theology and alchemy

Prof. William R. Newman & Dr. Derrick Mosley & Scott Mandelbrote
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Jewish Roots and ‘Jewish Turns’ in Latin American Liberation Theology in the 1960s-1980s

Silvana Kandel Lamdan, Haifa University
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Compassion as Emotional Resistance in Jewish Hellenistic Writings

Prof. Francoise Mirguet
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The Newton Watermark Project: Yahuda Collection of Isaac Newton manuscripts at the National Library of Israel

Dr. Stefan Litt & Scott Mandelbrote
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What Makes Us Brave? Cultivating Courage on the Page and in the Arena

Michael Oren & Laura Blumenfeld
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Magic in Mame-Loshn: on ‘Harry Potter’ in Yiddish

Arun Schaechter Viswanath & Gili Bar-Hillel Semo
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Ukrainian-Jewish Voices: The “Khazarian Myth"

Maksym Martyn, Ph.D., Lviv Museum of the History of Religion
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The British Jewry Book of Honour – 104 Years Since the End of WWI

Lola and Ronnie Fraser, “British Jews in the First World War" researchers
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Jewish Book Week

From the Ground Up: Building a new National Library of Israel

Jason Frantzen, Hannah Rothschild, Oren Weinberg. Chair: Harry Rich
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The Perils of Identity: The American in Israel

Leon Botstein, president of Bard College
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Solomon ibn Gabirol: A Poet of Strife and Devotion

Dr. Jonathan Vardi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Ukrainian-Jewish Voices: Survivors Saving Survivors

Chuck Fishman, freelance photographer, USA
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You’re Never Alone: a Piyut for Yom Kippur

Dr. Ariel Zinder, Tel Aviv University
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I-Thou Relationships in the Digital Age: What Would Martin Buber Say?

Rabbi David Wolpe, Kinney Zalesne, Dr. Stefan Litt
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Jewish Wisdom for a Secular World

David Weitzner in Conversation With DJ Schneeweiss
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Anglo-Jewry: A History of Controversy

Prof. David Latchman, Birkbeck University of London
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Israel in the British Literary Imagination

Daniel Taub
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Insiders/Outsiders: Jewish Artists in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

Monica Bohm-Duchen
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Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

Prof. Ruth R. Wisse in conversation with Dr. Yoel Finkelman
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Ukrainian-Jewish Voices: The Jewish World in Ukrainian Short Fiction of the Late 19th and the First Decades of the 20th Century

Khrystyna Semeryn
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Sephardi Voices UK: Sharing the Stories of Sephardi Jews in Britain

Dr. Bea Lewkowicz & Daisy Abboudi, Sephardi Voices UK Archive
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London Yiddishtown: A Glimpse into the Jewish East End Through Yiddish Song and Story

Dr Vivi Lachs, University of London
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A Tour of Anglo-Jewish History, 1656 to the Present

Prof. Todd M. Endelman, University of Michigan
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New Realities of Jewish Heritage in Europe

Ruth Ellen Gruber (Jewish Heritage Europe) & Samuel D. Gruber
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Hebrew Book Month & Conversations With Israeli Authors: Yishai Sarid

Yishai Sarid in conversation with Yuval Avivi
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Ukrainian-Jewish Voices: Pogroms in the Russian Empire and the Great Departure

Oleksii Chebotarov, Ph.D., New Europe College, Bucharest
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Hebrew Book Month & Conversations With Israeli Authors: Dorit Rabinyan

Dorit Rabinyan in conversation with Yuval Avivi
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Hebrew Book Month & Conversations With Israeli Authors: Noa Yedlin

Noa Yedlin in conversation with Yuval Avivi
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Hebrew Book Month & Conversations With Israeli Authors: Dror Mishani

Dror Mishani in conversation with Yuval Avivi
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Ukrainin-Jewish Voices: Ukraine's Jewish Printed Books and Its People

Nadia Ufimtseva
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A Rendezvous With Walt Whitman and the National Library of Israel

Dr. Fred Sugarman, Dr. Stefan Litt
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"And will they ever....": Challenges & Choices in Translating the Poetry of Lea Goldberg

Rachel Tzvia Back
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Unchartered History: The Story of Leonard Cohen’s Journey in the Sinai During the Yom Kippur War

Matti Friedman, in conversation with Nicole Krauss
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Ukrainian-Jewish Voices: Looking for Yiddishland - Galicia in Interwar Yiddish Travelogues

Vladyslava Moskalets, Ph.D., Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
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Monsieur Chouchani: une pensée juive moderne

Docteure Sandrine Szwarc, Docteure Shmuel Wygoda, Docteure Joëlle Hansel
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Mr. Shushani: A Teacher, an Intellectual and a Man of Mystery

Prof. Admiel Kosman, Dr. David Lang, Mrs. Miriam Camerini
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In Honor of Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel
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Unsettled Heritage. Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust

Yechiel Weizman, Ph.D., Bar Ilan University
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Ramadan Kareem
A look at Muslim religion and Arab society
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Alexander the Great in Islam. From Greek Conqueror to Muslim Prophet.

Sam Thrope, Ph.D., The National Library of Israel
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What To Do When You Can't Afford A Manuscript: The Passover Haggadah as a Material Object

Dr. Yoel Finkelstein
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House of Wisdom: A Meeting place for Christian, Jewish and Muslim Scholars and Thinkers in the Abbasid Golden Age

Dr. Bishara Ebeid
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The Global Library - A Photographic Essay

Robert Dawson, Professor of Photography at Stanford University (emeritus)
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Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
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Incubating Ideas: The Intimate Written Word and its Role in Social Change

Gal Beckerman and Dr. Raquel Ukeles
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Looking Back at Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art

Dvora Liss, Judaica and Contemporary Jewish Art Curator at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod
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Virtual Tours on Jewish Heritage
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A Virtual Tour of Jewish India

Rahel Musleah, journalist, speaker and educator
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Mordecai the Jew and Esther the Greek: The Books of Esther and the Politics of the Second Temple Period

Prof. Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University
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Expect the Unexpected: Stories From the Talmud

Prof. Haim Weiss, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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Letters of Light

Rachel Elior, Yigal Zalmona, Caron Sethill
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Between Worlds: The Context of the Talmud

Prof. Shai Secunda
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Academic Conference
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Innovations in Kabbalah Research Marking Forty Years since the Passing of Gershom Scholem z”l

Academic Conference
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Innovations in Kabbalah Research Marking Forty Years since the Passing of Gershom Scholem z”l

Opening Seat
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The Fate of Two Barons In Honor of the Discovery of the Jewish Colonization Association Archives at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
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Stefan Zweig and the World of Yesterday. An Event Marking Eighty Years of the Author’s Passing

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The Renewal of Yiddish Culture in Continental Europe

Dr. Gilles Rozier
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When the Divine Is in the Details. The Talmud's View of Divine Law

Prof. Christine Hayes, Yale University
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Head to Head
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Innocents or Sons of Belial: The Debate between the Jews and the Conversos in Spain

Professor Ram Ben-Shalom
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The Composition of the Talmud: How Did This Text Come About?

Prof. Moulie Vidas, Princeton University
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Writers in intimate conversation with their personal bookshelves
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Author Maya Arad Speaks with Yuval Avivi

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Rabbi Kook: On Ruling, Holiness, Secularization and Haredism: Shmita as the Kernel of Debate

Professor Avinoam Rozenak
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Is it Good to Die for Your Country? How Trumpeldor’s Last Words Were Understood in the 1920s. Marking the 11th of Adar, the Day of his Passing.

Dr. Amit Assis
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Promised Land. Jews in Barcelona in the 20th Century

Dominique Tomasov Blinder
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Power, Politics, and God: Religion in the Roman Empire

Prof. Paula Fredriksen
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Writers Speak
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Author Liad Shoham Speaks with Yuval Avivi

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Conscious History

Prof. Natalia Aleksiun
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Religious Mobility Among the Sephardic Diaspora

Dr. Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt
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Auschwitz in Film: 75 Years of Holocaust Cinema

Rich Brownstein
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Jews and Christians through the Centuries: Communities in Conflict and Contact
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Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations

Dr. Jesper Svartvik
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Tu B’Shvat and a Jewish Approach to Climate Change

Rabbi Yonatan Neril
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Jews and Christians through the Centuries: Communities in Conflict and Contact
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Jewish-Christian Encounters in Early Modern Europe

Prof. David B. Ruderman
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Following the collector and cover researcher Ezra Gorodetsky, on the anniversary of his death

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Jews and Christians through the Centuries: Communities in Conflict and Contact
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Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages

Prof. Daniel J. Lasker
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The life story and work of Haim Hefer

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On Rulers, Poets and Rulers-Poets: Sultan Suleiman's Songbook and Ottoman Courtyard Poetry

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Textual Intimacy in Jewish Culture

Prof. Avriel Bar-Levav
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Jewish Footprints in Córdoba

Moisés Hassán-Amsélem
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From Budapest to Jerusalem

Samuel Thrope
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Family, History, Memory: Notes on Some Jewish Graphic Novels

Prof. Tahneer Oksman
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Curators Corner: Building the World's Greatest Judaica Collection

Dr. Raquel Ukeles, Dr. Yoel Finkelman
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The Unexpected Arrivals: Soviet Jews in West Berlin 1972-1989

Prof. Carole Fink
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Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s Hanukkah Tale

Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem
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Confronting Hitler's Professors: Yiddish Scholarship and the Nazis.

Kalman Weiser, Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at York University
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Divided Dreams: Moroccan Jews and the Post-Independence Moroccan State

Professor Alma Rachel Heckman
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