Since Fall 2008, students of Dr. Zola's American Jewish History 403 class have been asked to submit short audio segments that describe and analyze interesting documents located in the holdings of the AJA.
Please click on the thumbnail image to view the document in question, and the title of the podcast to download the mp3 file.
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| Fall 2010 Podcasts |
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Brent Gutmann: "But I Remain A Jew"
Letter by Rabbi Solomon Sonneschein. 29 December 1885.
MS-360, Solomon Sonneschein Papers, Box 1, Book 3
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Jordan Helfman: "Prohibition and Jewish Religious Observances"
Letter from Rabbi Edward N. Calisch, President of CCAR. 2 January 1922
MS-90, Samuel Schulman Papers, Box 7, Folder 1
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Meredith Kahan: "KK Bene Israel and it's Traditional Roots"
Board of Trustee Minutes. 1 September 1872
MS-24, Congregation Bene Israel Records, Box 16, Folder 2
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Jon Kleinman: "Olin-Sang Ruby Union Institute"
Camp Brochure. 1968
Nearprint Geography, Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute
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Jason Levine: "John Lennon: The Man I Knew"
Speech by Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg. 29 October 1983
MS-98, Barnett R. and Rebecca A. Brickner Papers, Box 3, Folder 1
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Ari Lorge: "Controversy over Non-Jewish Faculty Members at HUC-JIR"
Memo by M. Tsevat. 7 February 1984
SC-12468
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Michal Loving: "Embracing Homosexuality in the Rabbinate"
Letter from Rabbi Paul Golomb. 12 January 1990
MS-725, Selig Salkowitz Papers, Box 4, Folder 3
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Jessica Rosenthal: "A Song Dedicated to a Conference?"
La-A-Sok B'Div-Rey Torah by Jeff Klepper. 11 August 1985
MS-775, Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, Box 33, Folder 16
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David Spinrad: "The Call of the Shofar"
Sermon by Rabbi Charles Feinberg. 19 September 2009
Feinberg, Charles, "The Call of the Shofar," 19 September 2009. http://www.rhr-na.org/resource/call-of-shofar
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Jimmy Stoloff: "The Quest of the Holy Dagesh"
Play by James G. Heller, Simon Cohen, Edward Davis, and Edward L. Israel. 1914
MS-147, James G. Heller Papers , Box 1, Folder 14
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| Fall 2009 Podcasts |
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Ariel Boxman: "Funeral Address [for Abraham Lincoln]"
Delivered by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise. 19 April 1865
Emanuel Hertz, ed., Abarham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue (Bloch Publishing Company, 1927), 92-99.
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Erin Boxt: "American Zionism and Soldiers"
Sermons by Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, October 1943
MS-763, Herbert A. Friedman Papers, Box 3, Folder 6
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Stephanie Clark: “Chanukah”
Editorial by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. 3 December 1880
Isaac Mayer Wise, “Chanukah,” The American Israelite 23 (3 December 1880): 180.
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Matt Cohen: "An American Tragedy"
Sermon by Rabbi Harold Saperstein. 5 April 1968
MS-718, Harold I. Saperstein Papers, Box 7, Folder 1, AJA
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David Gerber: "Ha-Tik-Voh"
The Temple B'nai Israel (Kokomo, In) Songster and Prayer-Book, Compiled by Student Rabbi Herbert Yarrish in 1944 and 1945.
Temple B'nai Israel (Kokomo, Ind.), Nearprint Geography
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Jen Lader: "A Special Friday Night Service in Dedication of the Encyclopedia Judaica"
Sermon by Rabbi Harry E. Goldwater. 27 October 1972
Saginaw, Michigan. Temple B'nai Israel, Nearprint Geography, AJA
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Nicole Roberts: "John Lennon: The Man I Knew"
Speech by Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg. 29 October 1983
MS-588, Abraham L. Fienberg Papers, Box 1, Folder 5, AJA
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Sam Rose-Carmack: "The Dedication of B'nai Sholom Temple"
“The Jewish Temple: Impressive Dedication Ceremony,” The Quincy Whig and Republican (September 10, 1870): pg. 4
B'nai Sholom Temple (Quincy, Ill.)., Nearprint Geography
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P.G. Schwartz: "Hope Lies Beneath: Sermon Following the Violence of September 11, 2001"
Sermon by Rabbi Mark S. Glickman, 14 September 2001
The September 11th Sermon Collection, MS-674, Box 1, Folder 3
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Anne Strauss: "Communism and the Biblical Tradition"
Radio address by Rabbi Levi Olan on WFAA, Dallas, Texas. 1 April 1962
MS-181, Levi A. Olan Papers, Box 23, Folder 4
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| Fall 2008 Podcasts |
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Aaron Meyer: “The War-Time Correspondence of Chaplain Sidney Ballon” |
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Aaron Miller: “The (False) Start of Jewish-Evangelical Relations” |
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Ari Plost: “'Between Friends': A Letter from Coretta Scott King to Kivie Kaplan” |
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Jessica Karpay: “Rabbi Jerome K. Davidsons September 11th Sermon” |
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Laila Haas: “Marie Syrkins Poems to her Father, Nachman” |
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Matt Semler: “The Diary of Simon Mayer, a Confederate Jewish Soldier” |
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Sandra Bellush: “'No Alternative to War': Lily Montagus Letter to Abraham Cronbach |
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Josh Leighton: “The Hebrew Ancestry of Native Americans? Leonard N. Simonss Letter to Philip Slomovitz” |
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Jason Mellman: “Adopting an Insignia for Jewish Chaplains: The Story of Rabbi David Goldberg” |
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