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Public Appearances

My lecture at the symposium “A Medium for the Masses: The Yiddish Press and the Shaping of American Jewish Culture”, at the Center for Jewish History, New York City (2024). My lecture begins from minute 19:00:

I was interviewed by British journalist Maria Margaronis and producer David Goren for a radio documentary titled “The Black Cantor” about Thomas La Rue’s career and the Yiddish theater. That documentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 2023. My participation is from minute 20:40:

My talk, “’Crude Creatures’: The Representation of Black People in Yiddish Culture” at the Carl-Schurz-Haus, a German-American cultural center in Freiburg, Germany:

My lecture “Fighting Zionism in the Name of Judaism: The Legitimization of Contemporary Antisemitism by Progressive Jews”, at a conference of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University, Bloomington (2019):

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My lecture “My Young Life Was Constantly in Danger”: Yiddish Memoirists and the Reimagining of the Eastern European Jewish Experience in Postwar America” at the Western Galilee College in Israel (2019):

My lecture “Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Jewish Responses to Accusations of Jewish Criminality”, at the University of Arizona (2017):