Dovid Katz: Online Courses, Lectures & Seminars


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Topics Available

Notes on professional availability

Books in the works (looking for publishers!)

Scholar-on-board (for Lithuania, and when possible, Belarus)

Contact

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2025

Vilnius Jewish Public Library lecture on Yivo’s 100th anniversary


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2023-2025

Private engagements for on-site seminars, lectures, intensive mini-courses and scholar-on-board assignments in Vilnius (and its region). Seating for up to 50 in private Vilnius mini-museum of Litvak and Yiddish culture. Inquiries.


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2023

Jan.-Dec. 2023: scholar-on-board for diverse international groups visiting Lithuania (and when possible — Belarus)

Oct.-Dec. 2023: Yiddish courses on Bashevis Singer and London Yiddish Literature (online at Workmens Circle)

May 2023: Lithuania specialist for the Workmens Circle’s Jewish Journey to Eastern Europe

Jan. 2023: History of the Yiddish Language (online at Yivo)

Jan. 2023: final sessions of 2022-2023 fall-winter semester (online at Workmens Circle)


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2022

Courses (in Yiddish) online at the Workmens Circle: Spring 2022; Summer 2022; Fall-Winter 2022

Jan. 2022 course (in English) online at Yivo winter program; May 2022: Scholar-on-board in Vilnius


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2021

Courses Taught

Recent Publications

Yiddish Cultural Dictionary


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2022:  Documentary film, ‘Rewriting History’ (2012) now on youtube

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Some Recorded Online Seminars & Lectures:

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Meyer Grunberg & Isaac Simon’s “Two Tall Jews Show” (15 June 2022, recorded Jan. 2022):

On Yiddish Literature, Language, and Defending Historical Truths

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German government’s Histopod series, vol. 8: interview by Annika Brockschmidt (26 November 2021):

Commemorating the Holocaust in Lithuania

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Claims Conference interview by Ruediger Mahlo (15 August 2021):

Denying History: On Holocaust Reception in Lithuania

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Kadimah Cultural Centre and National Library in Melbourne, Australia (10 August 2021):

What are the Dialects of Yiddish?

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Interview by Lithuanian playwright Marius Ivaškevičius (8 August 2021 video posting of 20 March 2017 interview):

Discourse on the Lithuanian Holocaust

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Kadimah Cultural Centre and National Library in Melbourne, Australia (22 July 2021):

The Past, Present and Future of Yiddish

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Committee for Yiddish at the UJA Federation in Toronto, Canada (18 July 2021):

My Three-Decade Search for the Last Litvaks in their Land (in Yiddish)

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 New York Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Language Series with Kolya Borodulin (2 May 2021):

The Era of Proletpen in New York Yiddish Poetry (through the eyes of my father Menke Katz (in Yiddish)

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Kiever Shul (Toronto, Canada) program by Raquel and Marinka Yossiffon  (25 April 2021):

Where Yiddish Laughs and Cries: 30th Yórtsayt of Poet Menke Katz

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 Leyvik House’s online event in honor of the publication of Einstein from Svir and Other Yiddish Short Stories and the book’s Leyb Rubinlicht Award for 2020 (27 December 2020):

Leyvik House Book Launch and Rubinlicht Award

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Lecture at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, Australia (9 December 2020):

Writing the Holocaust Out of History (without denying a single death)

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Interview hosted on Yiddish with Noyekh and Gustavo (6 December 2020):

On Chapter One of Chaim Grade’s Tsemakh Atlas: Di Yeshive (in Yiddish)

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Interview hosted on Yiddish with Noyekh and Gustavo (30 November 2020):

On My Father, the Poet Menke Katz (in Yiddish)

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Interview with Loic Salfati as addendum to his film Secrets of the Great Vilna Synagogue (draft of part 1; at timecode 48:31; posted 26 October 2020):

Who was the Gaon of Vilna?

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Tord Bjork’s webinar series (Stockholm, Sweden, 26 October 2020):

Double Genocide Revisionism and 21st Century Holocaust Reductionism

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Series of Five Webinars at the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre (28 July and 4, 11, 18 and 25 August 2020):

(1) The Litvaks on the Stage of Jewish History

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(2) The Yiddish Language

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(3) Why is the Lithuanian Holocaust So Controversial?

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(4) My 30 Years on the Road Looking for the Last Litvaks in their Lands

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(5) Synthesis, Questions & Discussion

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