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LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rosh Hashanah Recipes

About the Series: A new National Endowment for the Humanities CARES grant enables AJHS to bring curated objects and documents straight to you through new digital storytelling methods. In these live interactive Zoom sessions, you’ll see documents close up and pose questions to archivists and historians about what you are examining. Ticket Info: Free; register at forms.office.com to receive a link to…

Historians of the Jews and the Making of Plague Memory – Live on Zoom

Following our program on April 22, this is the second conversation between Joshua Teplitsky and Magda Teter on disease and plagues in Jewish history and memory. During this installment, Professors Teplitsky and Teter will discuss the role historians have played in shaping public memory of the plagues. They will examine the role premodern chroniclers played in defining “facts” and the…

After Hitler: The Untold Story

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

Featuring Olivier Wieviorka, ENS Paris-Saclay, documentary co-director.   After Hitler: the Untold Story (2016, 90 min), directed by Olivier Wieviorka and David Korn-Brzoza. Documentary film screening and discussion with historian and co-director Olivier Wieviorka about the role of the historian in creating documentary films.