Georgetown University collegiate athelete David Adelman, ca.1930.

Video Programs

Dr. Gary P. Zola speaks on Abraham Lincoln
and the Jews at the concert “Music and
Poetry of Lincoln’s Time” presented by the
the Jewish Museum of Florida, 11 February 2010.

Memorial Tribute to Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
pays tribute to its former president, who passed
away in September 2009.

Our Roots
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Relgion
celebrates the 135th anniversary of its founding

Dr. Susannah Heschel
An Evening with Dr. Heschel
Cincinnati, OH
September 3, 2008

Respondents panel:
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown
Bishop E. Lynn Brown
Rabbi David Ellenson
An Evening with Dr. Heschel
Cincinnati, OH
September 3, 2008

American Jewish History Podcasts

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.

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 Montagu’s 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”