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Learn with Us 2019-2020
AUDIO | From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue: The Story of Tracy Strong, Jr.
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Christopher Browning tells the story of a relief worker from Seattle who established a safe house for refugees in 1940s Vichy France.
VIDEO | Sasha Senderovich — Against Nostalgia: The Old Country in the Jewish American Imagination
WADr. Sasha Senderovich reads and offers thoughts on the dark poetry of modernist Yiddish poet Moyshe Leyb Halpern.
VIDEO | Chagall, Modigliani, & Jewish Painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement”
Galya Diment explains how modernist painters Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani related to Jewishness in their lives and art, looking at their time in Paris in the early twentieth century.
VIDEO | Richard Block —The 2015 Hungarian Drama “Son of Saul” and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
Dr. Richard Block discusses the 2015 Hungarian film "The Son of Saul" and how it marks a shift in films about the Holocaust.
VIDEO | The History of a Page: Reflecting on the Talmud as a Physical Book (and What I’ve Learned Since My Stroum Lecture 23 Years Ago)
David Stern (Harvard University) explains how the Talmud evolved over the ages in this update to his 1997 Stroum Lecture in Jewish Studies.