Salon Jewish Studies Blog

The Library of Congress (Washington) provides access to a large number of WEBCASTS including a huge variety of topics. The website covers the sections Biography & History, Culture & Performing Arts, Education, Government & World Affairs, Poetry & Literature, Religion and Science & Technology. Following webcasts may be of interest in context of Jewish histories and cultures (among others):

• Quick to the Party: Southern Jews and the Americanization of Hanukkah, Peggy Pearlstein, Dianne Ashton (2007)
  


• Baghdad Jews in British Burma, Ruth Fredman Cernea (2008)
  


• Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community, Laura Cohen Appelbaum, Wendy Turman (2007)
  


• Jewish Women's Issues, Susan Weidman Schneider (2004)
  


• Traditional Judaism or Reform, Marsha Rozenblit (2008)
  


• The Royal Court Preacher and the Hebrew Book, Menachem Schmelzer (2004)
  


• Holy Moses! A Cultural History of the Ten Commandments in Modern America, Jenna Joselit (2007)
  


• The Jewish Book in America, Jonathan D. Sarna (2004)
  


• The Warren and Margot Coville Collection of Photographs from the Clarence H. White School of Photography, Warren Coville, Kathy Erwin (2001)
  


• Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T.E. Lawrence, Aaronsohn and the Seeds of the Arab-Israel Conflict, Ronald Florence (2007)
  


• I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms, Debra Band (2008)
  


• Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden, Debra Band (2008)
  


• Old Cultures/New Contexts: Presenting the Traditional Music and Dance of Urban Immigrant Communities, Ethel Raim (2008)
  


• A Bibliographer Encounters the Muses: Reflections on the Yiddish Theater and Its Legacy, Zachary M. Baker (2007)
  


• Writing the Story of America's Religious Origins, Susan Jacoby, Mark Noll, Steve Prothero, Jonathan Sarna (2006)
  

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