Video Programs

HUC-JIR: Planting For Our Future
HUC-JIR 135th Anniversary Tribute Dinner
Cincinnati, OH
October 24, 2010

Dr. Gary P. Zola, Eli Evans, and Pamela Nadell
The Jewish Experience in the Civil War
McGowan Theater, National Archives and Records Administration
May 27, 2010

Dr. Jeffrey Melnick
The Complicated Story of Leo Frank's Trial & Lynching: Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
Cincinnati, OH
May 4, 2010

Note: The video playing at begining of lecture may be seen at http://www.leofrankfilm.com/.

Harold Holzer
Lincoln, The Civil War and American Jewry
Cincinnati, OH via Live Video from New York City
March 18, 2010

Dr. Gary P. Zola speaks on Abraham Lincoln
and the Jews at the concert “Music and
Poetry of Lincoln’s Time” presented by the
the Jewish Museum of Florida, 11 February 2010.

Memorial Tribute to Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
pays tribute to its former president, who passed
away in September 2009.

Our Roots
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Relgion
celebrates the 135th anniversary of its founding

Dr. Susannah Heschel
An Evening with Dr. Heschel
Cincinnati, OH
September 3, 2008

Respondents panel:
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown
Bishop E. Lynn Brown
Rabbi David Ellenson
An Evening with Dr. Heschel
Cincinnati, OH
September 3, 2008

Dr. Gary P. Zola - Invocation at the National Dinner Celebating 350 Years of American Jewish Life
Washington, D.C.
September 14, 2005

Dr. Gary P. Zola - Opening Ceremony for “From Haven to Home Exhibit”
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
September 8, 2004

Podcasts in American Jewish History

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 [PDF].

Click here to subscribe to Podcasts in American Jewish History.

Fall 2010 Podcasts
	Brent Gutmann: "But I Remain A Jew" Letter by Rabbi Solomon Sonnechein. 29 December 1885. MS-360, Solomon Sonnechein Papers, Box 1, Book 3 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	Jon Kleinman: "Olin-Sang Ruby Union Institute" Camp Brochure. 1968 Nearprint Geography, Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	Ari Lorge: "Controversy over Non-Jewish Faculty Members at HUC-JIR" Memo by M. Tsevat. 7 February 1984 SC-12468 Click here to listen.
	Michal Loving: "Embracing Homosexuality in the Rabbinate" Letter from Rabbi Paul Golomb. 12 January 1990 MS-725, Selig Salkowitz Papers, Box 4, Folder 3 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.

For past segments, click here.