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, and the title of the podcast to download the mp3 file.

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Fall 2010 Podcasts
	Brent Gutmann: "But I Remain A Jew" Letter by Rabbi Solomon Sonneschein. 29 December 1885. MS-360, Solomon Sonneschein 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 its 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: "Is Man a Machine?" Debate between Clarence Darrow and Rabbi Barnett Brickner. 9 February 1928 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. [The original sermon, "The Call of the Shofar", is unfortunately, no longer available.] 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.
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Fall 2009 Podcasts
	Ariel Boxman: "Funeral Address [for Abraham Lincoln]" Delivered by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise. 19 April 1865 Emanuel Hertz, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue (Bloch Publishing Company, 1927), 92-99. Click here to listen.
	Erin Boxt: "American Zionism and Soldiers" Sermons by Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, October 1943 MS-763, Herbert A. Friedman Papers, Box 3, Folder 6 Click here to listen.
	Stephanie Clark: “Chanukah” Editorial by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. 3 December 1880 Isaac Mayer Wise, “Chanukah,” The American Israelite 23 (3 December 1880): 180. Click here to listen.
	Matt Cohen: "An American Tragedy" Sermon by Rabbi Harold Saperstein. 5 April 1968 MS-718, Harold I. Saperstein Papers, Box 7, Folder 1, AJA Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
	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 Click here to listen.
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Fall 2008 Podcasts
	Aaron Meyer: “The War-Time Correspondence of Chaplain Sidney Ballon”
	Aaron Miller: “The (False) Start of Jewish-Evangelical Relations”
	Ari Plost: “'Between Friends': A Letter from Coretta Scott King to Kivie Kaplan”
	Jessica Karpay: “Rabbi Jerome K. Davidson's September 11th Sermon”
	Laila Haas: “Marie Syrkin's Poems to her Father, Nachman”
	Matt Semler: “The Diary of Simon Mayer, a Confederate Jewish Soldier”
	Sandra Bellush: “'No Alternative to War': Lily Montagus' Letter to Abraham Cronbach
	Josh Leighton: “The Hebrew Ancestry of Native Americans? Leonard N. Simons's Letter to Philip Slomovitz”
	Jason Mellman: “Adopting an Insignia for Jewish Chaplains: The Story of Rabbi David Goldberg”