This lecture was sponsored by Mali and Steven Schwartz.
Rahel Varnhagen: The Salon Life
Lecture sponsored by Mr. Eleazar Hirmes.
Khane-Rokhl Webermakher: The Maiden of Ludmir
This lecture was sponsored by Eva Zack de Waiser and Aliza Abramson.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: Architect of Modernity
This lecture is sponsored by Mr. Daniel Sommer.
The TorahCafe.com people later edited this video very nicely, although for some reason they keep removing my opening joke! Still, it’s great to have the PowerPoints integrated into the video, so here’s a slightly different version for your enjoyment. Click on the icon below for the humorless, but more beautiful, version of this lecture.
Israel ben Eliezer: The Ba’al Shem Tov
Correction: the reference in the lecture was to the Pittsburgh Platform (not the Philadelphia Platform). Even that, however, was a mistake: I was thinking of the 1883 Cincinatti “Trefa Banquet.” Thank you for the clarification, Menachem!
Rabbi Moshe Hayim Luzzatto: The Path of the Just
Lecture sponsored by Young Israel of Bal Harbour
Gluckel of Hameln: Jewish Women in the 17th Century
Lecture Sponsored by Judy Seed
Shabbetai Tsvi: False Messiah
Lecture sponsored by Joe and Zohara Weiss
Rabbi Yosef Karo: The Kabbalah of Halakhah
Rabbi Yosef Karo: The Kabbalah of Halakhah Delivered at the Young Israel of Bal Harbour, January 25, 2012.
Lecture sponsored by Menachem Sternbaum, Susan Leaventon, and an anonymous donor.
Correction: it wasn’t Rothschild after all, it was the Duke of Naxos.
Update: The nice people over at TorahCafe took this video and improved it considerably. Here’s an edited version, with the powerpoints integrated into the lecture, and a generally tightened up format:
http://jewishhistorylectures.org/2013/01/15/rabbi-yosef-karo-edited-torahcafe-version/
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