Public Program Recordings
This list, organized by region, presents all JDC Archives public programs for which a recording is available. Within each regional section, the most recent program is listed first, as indicated by the parenthetical date following the program titles. Each title is a link to a blog post that provides more detailed description and the video recording of that program. You may also wish to visit the JDC Archives Youtube Channel.
Africa and Asia
A Sanatorium for the Future: Tuberculosis, Jewish Organizations, and the State in Decolonizing Morocco (2024)
Julia Schulte-Werning
Building Memory: Jewish Communal Reconstruction in Postwar Tunisia, 1945-1967 (2022)
Walter Francis
Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa (2021)
Susan Gilson Miller
Reflections and Perceptions on Service as JDC Country Directors in North Africa (2021)
Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Seymour Epstein
JDC and European Refugees in Postwar Shanghai (2021)
Fred Lazin
Images of Moroccan Jews and Perceptions of American Jews, 1942-1954 (2020)
Michal Ben-Ya’akov
Studying the Middle East through the Prism of the Jewish Communities (2020)
Lior Sternfeld
The Miracle that Jews Survived in China during World War II (2019)
Ming Hui Pan
The Jewish Community in Iran from 1941 until the Revolution (2013)
Lior Sternfeld
Central and Eastern Europe
The Joint and Women’s Vocational Education: Handicrafts Workshops for Jewish Girls, 1920s Lwów (2024)
Sarah Zarrow
Made possible by the generous support of Miriam “Mimi” Pasternak Toubin (z”l) Public Educational Programming from the JDC Archives
Book Talk: The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust (2024)
Elizabeth (Barry) White and Joanna Sliwa
Yiddishkeit and JDC’s Support for Jewish Education in Communist Poland (2023)
Anna Sommer Schneider
Heroic Medical Research from the Warsaw Ghetto: Preserving a JDC Legacy (2023)
Merry Fitzpatrick, with Irwin Rosenberg
“Passover for the Passed Over”: Jewish Religious Life in Poland after 1968 (2022)
Jonathan Zisook
Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses D. Rosen’s Leadership in Romania under Communism and Afterwards (2021)
Zvi Feine and Sandra Segal
Mela Iancu: A Leader, A Rescuer, A Holocaust Heroine in Romania (2021)
Sylvia Hershcovitz
The JDC in Post-Stalinist Poland, 1957-1960s (2021)
Frankee Lyons
The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (2021)
Avinoam Patt
Jewish Resilience and Resourcefulness During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 (2020)
Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Ivan Čerešnješ
Making Sense of Catastrophe: Jewish Leadership in Romania during the Holocaust (2019)
Gaëlle Fisher
October 28th, 1938: Deportation, Refugee Life and Jewish Solidarity (2019)
Alina Bothe
The Fate of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust (2018)
Joseph Benatov
Jewish Life in Croatia 1945-1952 (2017)
Naida Michal Brandl
No Man’s Land: Jewish Refugees on the Borders of East-Central Europe in 1938 (2017)
Michal Frankl
Matzo Wars: Jews, Communism, and Ethnicity in 1946 Hungary (2015)
Anna Manchin
The Red Cross, Jewish Relief Agencies, and the Holocaust (2014)
Gerald Steinacher
Latin America
Escape to the Andes: The Story of Mauricio Hochschild, the “Schindler of Bolivia” (2023)
Raúl Peñaranda and Robert Brockmann
From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61 (2023)
Michael Rom
Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Colombia, 1945-1950 (2022)
Lorena Cardona González
Bolivia, A Forgotten Refuge during the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941 (2022)
Sandra Gruner-Domić
Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Jewish Agrarian Settlements in Southern Ukraine (1924-1948) (2024)
Yurii Kaparulin
Made possible by the generous support of Miriam “Mimi” Pasternak Toubin (z”l) Public Educational Programming from the JDC Archives
“Who Should the Players Be?”: The JDC in the Soviet Union, 1989-1991 (2022)
Joshua Tapper
Treading Lightly Back into the USSR: The ‘Joint’ Returns after Half a Century (2021)
Zvi Gitelman
A Jewish Aid Worker in the Killing Fields of Ukraine, 1918-1920: Eli Gumener’s Memoirs (2019)
Michael Nutkiewicz
Western Europe
“Relief Supplies—Films”: On the Road with the AJDC’s Mobile Film Units in Postwar Germany (2023)
Simone Gigliotti
“A Children’s Paradise?”: The JDC and Selvino, Italy, 1945-48 (2022)
Danielle Willard-Kyle
Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France” (2022)
Laura Hobson-Faure
Holocaust Survivors in Exile in Germany after World War II (2021)
David Nasaw
Interagency Efforts for Child Rescue and Immigration to the US: 1939-1942 (2020)
Emily Bengels
JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Lisbon: Harbor of Hope for Jewish Refugees (2019)
Marion Kaplan
The JDC and the Jews of Alsace and Algeria, 1940-1963 (2019)
Lauren Henry
Starting Over Again: Survivors, Locals, and Welfare Agencies in the Austrian Alps (2019)
Rachel Blumenthal
Histories on the Fringe: Jewish DPs in Austria and Koppel S. Pinson (2018)
Laura Almagor
Feeding Hungry Children After World War I (2016)
Mary Cox
The Yishuv/Israel
The Role of JDC in the Rehabilitation of Cyprus Detainees 1946-1949 (2021)
Anat Kutner and Sigal Harari Zonder
[This recording has been placed in the listings for The Yishuv/Israel because of the historical connection between the Cyprus detainees and the founding of the State of Israel.]
Not Geographically Specific
Healing Objects: The Joint’s Involvement in Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2024)
Anna-Carolin Augustin
Dr. Joseph Schwartz: “The Web Spinner” (2022)
Tuvia Friling
Re-evaluating the Role of American Jewry during the Holocaust (2022)
Jonathan Sarna
American Jewish Women Serving the JDC Abroad During the Interwar Years (2022)
Melissa Klapper
Impossible Reconstructions: Families After the Holocaust (2021)
Rebecca Clifford
The JDC Archives Names Index as a Window into JDC’s History (2020)
Jeffrey Edelstein
Searching for Survivors: The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers (2019)
Scott Miller
The US War Refugee Board and JDC (2018)
Rebecca Erbelding
The Creation of the Claims Conference 1951-1953: A Look Back at History (2016)
Rachel Blumenthal
Shadow Diplomats: American Jewish Foreign Policy in the Era of World Wars (2015)
Andrew Falk