COURSES

General Jewish History

History of the Jews (1000BCE to 2000CE) [3 years=63 lectures]

‘The Chosen People’ (70-1038)

The Jewish People: Destruction of The Temple to the modern day.

The Jew as the Devil (1038-1263)

Disputation 1263: ‘Inquisition in Spain: Jews and Judaism on trial. (with film)

The International Jew: From Geniza to Ghetto (1290-1555)

Jewish Unity: Myth or Reality (1656-1815)

A History of European Jewry (1876-1933)

From Emancipation to Decimation (1815-1946)

From Antiquity to Modernity: Who was a Jew to Who is a Jew: Pharisees to Reform.

Chasidism: Kabbalah, False Messiah, Golem influence on birth of Chasidism (1492-1701)

The Century of Conflict: Tradition v Modernity (1701-1815)

Between Cross and Swastika: A history of European Jewry (1791-1871)

The Emancipated Jew: Period of Hope. (1815-1876)

‘The Impending Catastrophe’ (1895-1933)

Jewish History: The Never Ending Journey

Mysticism, Heresy, Inquisition and Expulsion’ (C13-C15)

Judaism: The secret of the Jews Immortality. Jews not as victims, but as makers of history

England and The Jews

‘Swords into Ploughshares’
Wagner, Moseley, British National Party, Popes

‘Sunrise…Sunset: Eastern European Jewry’
On the Edge of Destruction (1903-1939):
Russian terror Kishinev to Beilis (1903-1913)
War, revolution and resolution (1914-1918)
Gathering Storm: German Jewry (1918-1933)
On the Edge of Destruction: Poland (1918-1939)

‘Under the Cross and The Crescent: European Jewry in the Middle Ages’

‘The Jewish Soul; How yesterdays’ world defines who and what we are today’

The Never Ending Hatred: Antisemitism. Gospels to Goebbels.

Why are the Jews Hated: Secrets of Jewish Survival.

‘From Amos to Oz: The People of The Books’ History through Literature.

‘Jews of Two Worlds’ History through Literature

The Worlds of Our Fathers: History through Literature. (with Films)

The Jew in the Non-Jewish World

"A One Way Love Affair" - The Life and Times of German Jewry 1033-1933

Holocaust

‘Trials and Tribulations: Trials emerging from the ashes of the Nazi period’

i] Chaim Arlosoroff: The Jew who negotiated with the Nazis Transfer Agreement

ii] Mordecai Rumkowski: Hero or Villain: Head of Lodz Gheto [with Film]

iii] Rudolf Kastner: The Jew who dealt with the Nazis [with film]. Quisling, victim, hero?

iv] Adolf Eichmann: Major player or minor cog. The banality of evil [with Film]

v] Nuremberg: Justice or Revenge [with Film]

v1] The Rosenbergs: Victims or Criminals

Decimation: The Holocaust in History (1933-1946) [8 lectures]

Von Stauffenberg, and Jewish Resistance to the Nazis

Korczac: Hero of our time; The King of Children. [with film]

Berlin 36. Story of Gretel Bergmann [with film]

China and the Jews: Shanghai and WW11

Polish Jewry: On the Edge of Destruction

‘In the beginning…Boycott’: German, world and Jewish reaction to attack on J. Community (1933)

Suskind: Saved nearly 1000 Jews in Holland, but was he hero or devil? [with Film: Suskind]

Post-Holocaust Trauma: Reparations, Kastner and the Eichmann trial

‘As sheep to The Slaughter’: Jewish Resistance, Uprising and Survival (WW11)

Nazi Emigres to GB, and their contribution to Great Britain

Propaganda and the art of Leni Riefenstahl

The Five Towns: Film of pre-war 1939 Polish Jewry: Warsaw, Cracow Bialystok, Lwow, Vilna

The History of Hungarian Jewry: Spring –Summer 1944