Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Berkeley's Center for Jewish Studies presents Magda Teter's lecture exploring how the medieval anti-Jewish lie about the story of Simon of Trent, a boy whose death during the Easter/Passover season in 1475 led to one of the most notorious persecutions of Jews in Europe and, as cited in 2019 by the shooter of the Poway synagogue, became rooted in Christian imagination to persist into the twenty first century US and lead to his horrific crime in California.

American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, authors of American Shtetl, discuss how a group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York.

Radio, Propaganda, Terror: Austrian-Jewish Refugees and the Media

Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

2024 Annual Feldman Lecture by Paul Lerner. Presented by UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of History, German Historical Institute Washington | Pacific Office Berkeley, and OPEN Austria.