Really looking forward to meeting this community!
Shabbat in Rosyln, NY; Hello from Jerusalem;
Invitation to LCM Breakfast; Caribbean Jews and the History of Chocolate; Spanish Disputations and the Pogroms of 1391
Please join me at our First Annual Breakfast!
Jews and Chocolate! Who knew?
Disputations and the Pogroms of 1391
The Jews of Bukhara (Sunday in Denver); the Maimonidean Controversy; Save the Date for Roslyn NY
Really looking forward to speaking to the Or Avner community in Aurora, CO!
The Maimonidean Controversy
Save the Date: Shabbaton in Roslyn NY, December 20-21
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Monday Night! Dr. Daniel Reiser and Henry Abramson at Touro College
Touro College is honored to welcome a great Israeli scholar to the Mighty Avenue J campus this Monday night at 7:00 pm sharp. Dr. Daniel Reiser, winner of the Yad Vashem Prize for Holocaust Research and the World Union of Jewish Studies Prize for the Best Book on Jewish Thought, will speak about his pathbreaking……
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Ancient Israel (Crash Course in Jewish History, Pt. 1)
Please enjoy this recording of the first in our new four-part series, Crash Course in Jewish History, offered this month at the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst. More information available by clicking here.
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Optional Readings for Crash Course in Jewish History
Crash Course in Jewish History (for very intelligent people) Extra Credit Readings for First Class: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 (privileges will be revoked for anyone who asks hard questions) Ancient History Wednesday, September 4, 2019 What is Jewish History? Peter Steinfels, “Salo Baron, 94, Scholar of Jewish History, Dies,” New York Times, November 26, 1989. 2….…
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Message to Faculty from Dean Abramson
Two brief thoughts on the momentous occasion of the beginning of the new Academic Year.
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Learning Should Be Free! Henry Abramson on Teaching Jewish History to the Global Classroom
Great conversation with Max Sklar on The Local Maximum podcast!
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Wednesday Night: Crash Course in Jewish History
Okay, this is going to be something different: four concentrated lectures on absolutely all of Jewish history, skipping the boring parts so we can cover it all. Free and open to the community; might be recorded for the Internet but depends on if anyone asks hard questions. Join us! Wednesdays in September 2019, 7:30-8:30 pm……
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Global Maimonides on Teshuvah Project Begins!
There are forty days from Rosh Hodesh Elul (today) to Yom Kippur. Please join hundreds (maybe thousands?) of students sharing in my yearly review of the classic work of Moses Maimonides on Teshuvah. Free texts and videos offered in a variety of platforms on social media. May you all have a transformative season of self-improvement,……
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Dr. Daniel Reiser to Speak at Touro College
A world-class scholar of the Holocaust speaks at Touro College.
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Secret Torah NY Discount for Jewish History Students!
I’m really looking forward to lecturing at Citi Field next month as part of the incredible Torah NY gathering. There are going to be some absolutely phenomenal speakers there, including Rabbis Moshe Elefant, Moshe Schwed, Ya’akov Trump, Stephen Weil. They have also let me know that there’s a secret 10% discount for all registrations that……
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Crash Course in Jewish History
Please join us at Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst for four lectures in Jewish History! Details below.
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What’s with all the interviews this week?
This week was unusually busy for interviews! Kind of surprised that people want to talk to me about this stuff, but really glad there are others who find this research FASCINATING. Yesterday I had a great convo with Rabbi Sholom Licht for a print article in Jewish Action. Our discussion began with the Jewish History……
The Jews of Bukhara (Denver, CO); The Jews of the Lesser Antilles; Varieties of Crypto-Jewish Identity; Wait, Alexander Hamilton was Jewish?
Looking forward to a wonderful Shabbat in the Denver Jewish community!
Our Itinerary of Discovery in the Western Caribbean
Channel Members
Premiering at 10am ET
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Gaza, Israel, and the Future of American Jewish Youth (Live Lecture in Brooklyn); Who was the Poet of the Inquisition?; Update on Volume 1 of The Jewish People: A History
Thursday night at the Yeshiva of Flatbush The lecture will be live-streamed (details forthcoming) Who Was Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna, Poet of the Inquisition? Update on Volume One of The Jewish People: A History Very pleased to be past the peer-review process and now working on copyediting and especially images and maps for the book….…
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Jews in Palestine between the Bar Kochba Revolt and the Muslim Invasion
A brief review of the history from 136 to 638
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Why is “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” offensive? And Who was Meyer Kayserling?
Deconstructing a slogan and what it means to those who chant it A Pioneering Historian of Portuguese Jewry
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Crash Course on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Part III Premiers at 10am with Live Chat Parts I and II
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Origins of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Part II: Toward a Two-State Solution, 1949-1993; Duarte De Paz Holds back the Portuguese Inquisition; Post-Peer Reviewed Chapters of Volume 1 now Online
Premiering at 10am ET (New York time) The Amazing Career of Duarte De Paz Peer-reviewed The Jewish People: A History now online With gratitude to the hundreds of students of Jewish history who contributed suggestions and edits to the first volume of The Jewish People: A History, and the constructive edits provided by the peer……
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Origins of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Part I: To 1949
Premiering Sunday at 10am EST. Join us for a live chat. The video is currently available to Channel Members for advance viewing.
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Touro University Stands with Israel; Talking Gaza to Teens in Florida; What is Islamic Antisemitism? How did Portuguese Jews Survive the Inquisition?
Students Please RSVP for the Bus to DC What is Islamic Antisemitism? Talking Gaza to Teens (also adults, and also Safed) How did Portuguese Jews Survive the Inquisition?
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Biblical Jewish History Course Updated; Talking to Teens about Gaza (Palm Beach Nov 12); Why do Some People Hate Jews?
Sadly, an Evergreen Topic Please join me at Palm Beach Synagogue on Nov 12 for a discussion of Gaza in Jewish History (general lecture and a special session for teens) and a look at 16th century Safed Click here to register. Biblical History Course Updated Many of you followed the Jewish History Lab series of……
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Jewish History along the Rhône River in Southern France
A deep and meaningful journey with Kosher Riverboat Cruises.
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Captivity of the Maharam Rotenburg; How did Jews end up Everywhere?
New lecture in the series Jewish History for Parents and other Teachers of Children This 13th Century Rabbi Refused to be Ransomed from Captivity
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Just How Awesomely Long is Jewish History, Anyway?
I recorded this before Simchas Torah, so the tone is a little more cheerful and upbeat than I feel. But maybe that’s appropriate: we must continue.
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Visits to Synagogues in Bordeaux and Libourne (France); Another Open Letter to Jewish Participants in anti-Israel Protests re: Amsterdam; Conference Presentation on Sheptytsky and WW II
Fantastic Voyage of Discovery with Kosher River Cruises
A Difficult Conversation
Recent Conference Presentation in Toronto
Wait, Christopher Columbus was Jewish? Documentary on Roman-Jewish War now Online
Surprised how much attention this got.
Herod’s Tragic Reign
The Fatal Conflict
How Jewish Culture will Thrive after October 7; The Jews of Al-Andalus Part II
Remarks at Lander College for Men
Maimonides and the Controversy over His Work
Jewish Resilience After October 7; American Jews, Post-Honeymoon; The Jews of Al-Andalus
Three Strategies
Jews under the Visigoths II; The Spanish Golden Age
Public at 10am ET (44 minutes)
Online Courses in Jewish History
Jewish Life in Visigothic Spain; Commemorating October 7
This is one of the most bizarre periods of Jewish history, and that’s saying a lot.
Henry Abramson 