Dovid Katz: Topics on Offer for Courses & Lectures (2025)
Contact: dovidkatz777 {a} gmail.com
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CATEGORIES:
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I: Yiddish and Ashkenazic Culture
Intermediate Level Ulpan-Style Mini-Course in Yiddish Language
Advanced Level Ulpan-Style Mini-Course in Yiddish Language
The Past, Present and Future of Yiddish
The Dialects of Yiddish: More than Just Dialects…
Origins of the Yiddish Language: A Tale of Passionate Debates
Women in the History of Yiddish
The Three Jewish Languages of Ashkenaz: Hebrew, Yiddish and Aramaic
A New Yiddish Atlas of Lithuanian Yiddish Dialects and Culture
Yiddish Writers I Remember
600 Years of Conflicts over Yiddish
The Old Hebrew-Yiddish Conflict and its Lingering Legacies
What was Classic Secular Yiddishism? Relevance Today?
Love and Hate of Yiddish
The Incredible Fate of Yiddish in the 21st Century
Yiddish and Power (11th to 21st centuries)
Yiddish as a Toy of Far-Right Holocaust Revisionists in 21st Century Vilnius
Yiddish Stylistics and the Ideological Strings
Why Study Ashkenazic Hebrew?
Ashkenazic Hebrew Intro [for participants familiar with Biblical or Israeli Hebrew]
Which Yiddish Should We Be Teaching?
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II: The Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) Legacy
Past, Present and Future of the Litvaks
Lithuanian Jewry in Time and Space
Litvaks and Galitsyáner
Lithuanian-Jewish Relations: Why so Volatile?
The Battle over Vilna’s Old Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish Community of Lithuania: 1990-2024
Why The Joint (JDC) is “Different from all the Others”
Vilna Jewish Book Stamps: Windows to a Lost Jewish World
A Virtual Mini-Museum of Old Jewish Vilna: Introduction to a Lost Jewish Civilization
The Real Gaon of Vilna
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III: Holocaust and Antisemitism
Writing the Holocaust Out of History (Without Denying a Single Death)
The 21st Century Incarnation of Holocaust Denial: “Double Genocide”
How American/NATO Politics is Writing the Holocaust Out of History
American Foreign Policy and the Neocons: Why They “Have To” Target the Holocaust
Israeli Foreign Policy and the Holocaust
The Plot to Replace the Holocaust in Western Consciousness
When Holocaust History Collides with Cold War II
The Holocaust in Lithuania
Respectfully Disagreeing with Professor Timothy Snyder
Why is the Lithuanian Holocaust Still So Controversial?
When East European Holocaust Education is Camouflage for Revisionism
The Baltics and (Western) Ukraine: A Holocaust Conundrum
The Unique Kind of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
What’s Behind the Battle of Vilnius’s Piramónt Cemetery?
21st Century (Western) “Useful Jewish Idiots” (UJIs) in Eastern Europe
Would American and Israeli Holocaust Institutions Sell out the Baltic Truth?
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IV: Other Topics
My Father Menke Katz: Times & Tales of a Yiddish (and English) Poet
The Jewish Cultures of my Brooklyn Childhood
Curious Episodes in the Life of a Yiddishist Emigré from Brooklyn
Memories of a Doctoral Supervisor in Yiddish Studies
The New Cold War and the American Media
The New Far Right in Eastern Europe
Ukraine: Jewish Aspects Before and After the Putinist Invasion
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