{"id":175,"date":"2023-01-05T06:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T06:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:56:18","slug":"casden-conversations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/casden-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Casden Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <div class=\"html-content\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aL2Mgb1BQhY?si=NnGjA13nknXv7sJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday, February 25: A History of Jews and Science &#8211; WATCH RECORDING HERE<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aL2Mgb1BQhY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-977 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/JJ-Feb-Sci-Event-18-NEW-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"A History of Jews and Science\" width=\"324\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/JJ-Feb-Sci-Event-18-NEW-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/JJ-Feb-Sci-Event-18-NEW-768x907.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/JJ-Feb-Sci-Event-18-NEW.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FnDC7tqHmk4\">Sunday, January 28: Casden Conversations &#8211; Holocaust Memory Across Generations &#8211; WATCH HERE<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FnDC7tqHmk4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-981 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/Holocaust-Memory-1_1_24-S-1-2-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"olocaust Memory Across Generations\" width=\"496\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/Holocaust-Memory-1_1_24-S-1-2-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/Holocaust-Memory-1_1_24-S-1-2.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-998 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/CAS_Frames_01-28_Opening-Slide-2_Remembrance-of-Esther-Ross-300x169.png\" alt=\"olocaust Memory Across Generations\" width=\"366\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/CAS_Frames_01-28_Opening-Slide-2_Remembrance-of-Esther-Ross-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/CAS_Frames_01-28_Opening-Slide-2_Remembrance-of-Esther-Ross.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/isMI-F3oT_A?si=Xqbyp6Sl6_65Sw8z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday, September 10, 2023: &#8220;Casden Conversations&#8221;- The Warner Brothers: Hollywood\u2019s Most Outspoken Jews &#8211;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/isMI-F3oT_A?si=Xqbyp6Sl6_65Sw8z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH RECORDING HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/isMI-F3oT_A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-748\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/08\/Casden-SEPT-CHRM-8.28-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Casden Conversations Poster\" width=\"343\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/08\/Casden-SEPT-CHRM-8.28-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/08\/Casden-SEPT-CHRM-8.28.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom--lv0\"><strong>April 2, 2023: The Radical Right and Antisemitism: How Bigotry has Energized the Far Right, from the John Birch Society to MAGA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mojoImageItemIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/e0ef65db6ddb359ad08cc35dd\/images\/aed0eb2b-4550-ee41-92aa-a2b5b534fcec.jpg\" alt=\"The Radical Right and Antisemitism\" data-dojo-attach-point=\"imageNode\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe id=\"fitvid932723\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KpYuZUo-XI0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom--lv0\"><strong>Sunday, March 5, 2023: Waves Apart &#8211; The Hidden History of Antisemitism in California Surf Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"margin-bottom--lv0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Waves_Ad_JJ.jpg\" alt=\"Waves Apart\" width=\"954\" height=\"1098\" \/><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"html-content\">\n<p><strong>Sunday, February 19, 2023 &#8211; 21st Century American Jewry:\u00a0From Antisemitism to New Forms of Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/events.usc.edu\/esvp\/code\/021923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/CAS_CHG.jpg\" alt=\"21st Century American Jewry\" width=\"954\" height=\"1098\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Radical Right and Antisemitism: How Bigotry Has Energized the Far Right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KpYuZUo-XI0?si=fAVwCZmbqp3YK4pM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, February 7, 2021: &#8220;The Last Million: Europe&#8217;s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War&#8221; &#8211; VIDEO RECORDING BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Casden_Convo_1-page-001.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Million\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1683\" \/><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunday, February 7, 2021: The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tb8gWjpo8_U?si=wHr2FHMut5Vn2PP4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/_VI_9839.JPG\" alt=\"The Last Million\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/_VI_9840.JPG\" alt=\"The Last Million\" width=\"1200\" height=\"646\" \/><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, January 27, 2021 (Holocaust Remembrance Day) 4PM PST: &#8220;Impudent Jews: Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/rec\/play\/PqUEaxcbtPQQOyUa4pPUgHcZlN0IR7mCdU7D9tOehfm5iZ0s6zmwOyyr5iNZ5Pb5lm3zdaZEd6pMbczj.-zTGI6PFv65l0oF2?continueMode=true\">VIDEO RECORDING HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Convo_OG-page-001.jpg\" alt=\"Holocaust Remembrance Day\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1300\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/_TS_9653.jpg\" alt=\"Holocaust Remembrance Day\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/_TS_9682.jpg\" alt=\"Holocaust Remembrance Day\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sunday, February 16, 2020: Casden Conversations: &#8220;Working in Hollywood: A Jewish Perspective on How the Studio System Turned Creativity Into Modern Labor&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/392333071\/e393f64767\">Casden Conversations: &#8220;Working in Hollywood&#8221; Video Recording\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Regev-Ross_verFF_11-22.png\" alt=\"Working in Hollywood\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, February 2, 2020: Casden Conversations: &#8220;Anti-Semitism Today and the Tools to Fight It&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Please Visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/md1tpqp62107gyp\/USC%20Casden%20Conversations%20-%20Anti-Semitism%20Today%20and%20the%20Tools%20to%20Fight%20It.mp4?dl=0\">&#8220;Anti-Semitism Today and the Tools to Fight It&#8221; Video Recording<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/md1tpqp62107gyp\/USC%20Casden%20Conversations%20-%20Anti-Semitism%20Today%20and%20the%20Tools%20to%20Fight%20It.mp4?dl=0\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Soomekh_Holo_12.12_Rev.png\" alt=\"Working in Hollywood\" width=\"1762\" height=\"2062\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ben Hecht Story: Lessons of the Holocaust in the Age of Trump on Sunday, November 17, 2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please Visit:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/375537534\/79df655e66\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/375537534\/79df655e66<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/IMG_1214.jpg\" alt=\"The Ben Hecht Story\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Ben_Hecht_Flyer.jpg\" alt=\"The Ben Hecht Story\" width=\"1087\" height=\"1987\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Harry Met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love on Sunday, February 25, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXmtiustkoI?si=Tncw3w9H8W9DloOc\" title=\"February 25, 2018 Casden Conversations\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/CasCon_JJ_Moss-Renov_10-6_copy.jpg\" alt=\"Why Harry Met Sally\" width=\"768\" height=\"1800\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Race and Inclusivity in the American Jewish Community: Challenges and Opportunities on Sunday, January 21, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/_SC_8504_preview-1.jpg\" alt=\"Race and Inclusivity in the American Jewish Community\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/CasCon_WORK_1123C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1800\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Convergence of Tradition and Global Culture in the Persian Passover Ritual on Sunday, March 26th 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/perian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"March 26, 2017 Casden Conversations\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yTLmWLo-oK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, February 12 2017 &#8211;\u00a0USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/newONETODAY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1400\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/ahh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, October 30 2016 &#8211; How Barbra Streisand Redefined Beauty, Femininity, and Power<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/IMG_0132.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neal Gabler and USC Professor Steven Ross discuss how Barbra Streisand Redefined Beauty, Femininity, and Power.<br \/>\nSunday, October 30th, 2016 at 4:00 pm<br \/>\nWilshire Boulevard Temple Irmas Campus<br \/>\n11661 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Roster of Casden Conversations-2015-2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, April 26, 2015- Barbara Isenberg and Gail Eichenthal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Tradition!&#8221; The Phenomenon of Fiddler on the Roof\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Barbara Isenberg, author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller\u00a0<em>&#8220;Tradition!&#8221;,<\/em>\u00a0and KUSC Executive Producer Gail Eichenthal have a conversation about the impact of the fiftieth anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof on American Jewish identity and consequently how Sholom Aleichem&#8217;s 19th century Yiddish stories were re-imagined, set to music and popularized onstage and onscreen worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, September 20, 2015-Louise Steinman and Jack Miles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;An American Jew in Poland: Is Reconciliation Possible?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Louise Steinman is a writer and literary curator. Her work frequently deals with memory, history and reconciliation.\u00a0Amongst several highly acclaimed books, she is the author of <em>&#8220;The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation&#8221;<\/em>. Louise has curated the award-winning ALOUD at Central Library series for the Los Angeles Public Library (www.aloudla.org) for the past two decades and is also co-director of the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities at USC.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Miles serves as general editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackmiles.com\/Home\/books\/the-norton-anthology-of-world-religions\"><em>The Norton Anthology of World Religions<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>(November 2014). In addition, he is a distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine and Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. Jack is a writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and many other publications. His book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackmiles.com\/Home\/books\/god-a-biography\"><em>GOD: A Biography<\/em><\/a>\u00a0won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996. His book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackmiles.com\/Home\/books\/christ-a-crisis-in-the-life-of-god\"><em>Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God<\/em><\/a>\u00a0led to his being named a MacArthur Fellow for the years 2003-2007.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/test.jpg\" alt=\"Liora Halperin and Sarah Bunin Benor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, November 1, 2015-Liora Halperin and Sarah Bunin Benor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Jews, Zionism, and the Politics of Language in Palestine and Israel&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Welcome given by Alan Casden, CEO Casden Properties, LLC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liora R. Halperin\u00a0is an Assistant Professor in the\u00a0Department of History\u00a0and the\u00a0Program in Jewish Studies\u00a0at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on Jewish cultural history, Jewish-Arab relations in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, language ideology and policy,\u00a0and the politics surrounding nation formation in Palestine in the years leading up to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.\u00a0 Liora Halperin is the author of <em>\u201c<\/em><em>Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and the Politics\u00a0<\/em><em>of Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Bunin Benor is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where she teaches masters students in the School of Jewish Nonprofit Management and undergraduates at the University of Southern California. She has lectured widely about the social science of American Jews, sociolinguistics, Jewish languages, and Orthodox Jews. She is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/becomingfrum.weebly.com\/index.html\"><em>Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 (winner of the Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature), as well as several articles in Jewish studies and linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/imagesssss.jpg\" alt=\"Liora Halperin and Sarah Bunin Benor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 24, 2016-Hasia Diner and Paul Lerner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cJewish peddlers and their discovery of the new world\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hasia Diner\u00a0is Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. She is the author of the award-winning\u00a0<em>We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962<\/em>. Hasia\u2019s work has been located at the intersection of American and Jewish history. A scholar of immigration history and the history of relations between American Jews and other ethnic and racial groups, her many books and articles explore various aspects of immigration, identity, and women\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Lerner is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany and Central Europe with particular interest in the history of the human sciences, Jewish history, gender, and the history and theory of consumer culture. He has written on the history of psychiatry, specifically on hysteria and trauma in political, cultural and economic context in the years around World War I in Germany, and he recently completed a book on the reception and representation of department stores and modern forms of marketing and consumption in Germany and Central Europe.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Powers and Perils of Nazi Propaganda\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"asset-name\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/_CS_5325.JPG\" alt=\"The Powers and Perils of Nazi Propaganda\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"asset-name\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Lisa_4-_CasCon4_JJ_ad_Smth-Lckrt_copy_4.jpg\" alt=\"The Powers and Perils of Nazi Propaganda\" width=\"500\" height=\"1145\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-name\">&#8220;Tradition!&#8221; The Phenomenon of Fiddler on the Roof<\/h1>\n<p>Barbara Isenberg, author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller\u00a0<em>&#8220;Tradition!&#8221;,<\/em>\u00a0and KUSC Executive Producer Gail Eichenthal have a conversation about the impact of the fiftieth anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof on American Jewish identity and consequently how Sholom Aleichem&#8217;s 19th century Yiddish stories were re-imagined, set to music and popularized onstage and onscreen worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>An American Jew in Poland or, The Country in my Head\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Steinman_Miles_Casden_Conversation.jpg\" alt=\"An American Jew in Poland or, The Country in my Head\" width=\"600\" height=\"1414\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jews, Zionism, and the Politics of Language in Palestine and Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/Halperin-Benor_CC.jpg\" alt=\"Jews, Zionism, and the Politics of Language in Palestine and Israel\" width=\"600\" height=\"1414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jewish Peddlers and their Discovery of the New World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Image from the event:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/_CS_8570.JPG\" alt=\"Jewish Peddlers and their Discovery of the New World\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/casden-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/11\/CasCon3_JJ_ad_Diner-Lerner_11-8.jpg\" alt=\"Jewish Peddlers and their Discovery of the New World\" width=\"500\" height=\"1145\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome and Introduction given by Alan Casden, CEO Casden Properties, LLC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Casden Conversations is a new scholarly initiative that aims to bring together students,faculty, and the greater Los Angeles community for a series of engaging discussions that explore various aspects of American Jewish life. In their respective lectures, our distinguished speakers strive to shed light on wide variety of contemporary topics that are at the forefront of American Jewish culture and identity.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Sunday, April 26, 2015<br \/>\nTime: 2:00-3:30PM<br \/>\nLocation: Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240<br \/>\nParking: $10 in Parking Structure X on Figueroa<br \/>\nCost: Free, Reservations Requested<\/p>\n<p>RSVP: Online at: www.usc.edu\/esvp Code: CasdenConversations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contact-panel\">\n<ul class=\"contact-group\">\n<li class=\"name\">The Casden Institute<\/li>\n<li class=\"address\">The USC Casden Institute<\/li>\n<li class=\"address\">Taper Hall of Humanities, Suite 348C<\/li>\n<li class=\"address\">3501 Trousdale Pkwy<\/li>\n<li class=\"address\">University of Southern California<\/li>\n<li class=\"address\">Los Angeles, CA 90089<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"contact-group\">\n<li class=\"phone\">Phone: (213) 740 &#8211; 3405<\/li>\n<li class=\"email\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:lansell@usc.edu\">lansell@usc.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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