Hannah Szenes: Poet, Hero, Martyr

Sarah Schenirer: Revolution in Womens’ Education

Sarah Bernhardt: Jews and Celebrity

This lecture was sponsored by Eva Zack de Waiser.

Leon Trotsky: Jews on the Left

Lecture sponsored by Young Israel of Bal Harbour.

Shalom Aleichem: The World of Yiddish

Lecture sponsored by  Mr. & Mrs. Leon Brum, Mr. & Mrs. Harold Wilinsky, Jay Farkas and Vivian Nemir.

Theodor Herzl: Visions of Israel

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.

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!

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