Lectures in Jewish History and Thought. No hard questions, please.
On the one hand, Maimonides and later Chabad traditions. On the other hand, some archaeological examples. Here’s a brief look at what we know.
Now online! A new course in Biblical Jewish History. Check it out here, and join us!
Really thrilled to have so many people sign up for this new online course! If it interests you, please click here to check out the syllabus, and join us!
If only it were over so quickly.
My part of a Kristallnacht commemoration at YILC.
Warning: some graphic images.
Ancient Jewish History from Abraham to Bar Kochba.
Really excited to announce this new online course! Please click here for course information and registration.
A brief overview of one of the major early battles in the Chanukah revolt in 166 BCE.
Really looking forward to meeting students of the Ashkenazium in Budapest in January! Here’s the online course I set up to prepare them for the lectures. It’s open to the public as well. Enjoy in good health!
The Jewish History Lab lecture series resumes with live, in-person meetings at Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst on Wednesday nights at 7:30 pm. Free and open to the community! Zoom link available to YILC members and their guests. YouTube Channel members (Colleagues): please check your Community Tab for the link.
Six brief videos chronicling the 2021 journey with Kosher Riverboat Cruises up the Douro River to Salamanca, Spain and back through Portugal. A wonderful fantastic look at the rich history of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula, from the earliest settlement in Roman colonies (possibly earlier!) through the Visigoths, then the brief but brilliant Golden Age in Moorish Spain through the Inquisition and Expulsion of 1492. A highlight for me was visiting Belmonte, home to a crypto-Jewish community that maintained its Jewish identity throughout 500 years of hiding from the wider world, and then spending time in the Mekor Hayim synagogue in Porto, home of a 21st century renaissance of Portuguese Jewish history.
For more information on this and many other amazing tours into Jewish history, please visit https://kosherrivercruise.com.
Henry Abramson 