Congregation Beth Abraham
Hertzberg's
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Rabbi Katz's Lectures and Tours
Over the years, Rabbi Katz has delivered numerous lectures about various periods in our history. He also conducts a variety of historically themed tours both locally and abroad. Here is information about some of his lectures and tours:
Lectures
Summer 2013 Jewish History Lecture Series - Romans and Jews: The Age of Bar Kochba
Winter 2012-2013 Jewish History Lecture Series - Negotiating Choppy Waters - Israel and the Jews: the New State 1949-1952
Ezekiel Landau and Kabbalah:
Observations on a Recent Historical Controversy
Tisha B'Av Kinos 2012-5772 - (video)
Summer 2012 Lecture Series - The War Against the Jewish Book
The Traditional Kehillah: Family Quarrels vs. Amicable Divorce - Thinking Historically about Rabbi Abraham Rice, his Congregants, & Baltimore's Jewish "Community" in the 19th & 20th Centuries - Date to be determined
Habsburg, Romanov, Rebbe, Shul - Yarhzeit lecture in memory of Mrs. Lenka Katz - June 24th, 2012 -- This video is available online by clicking here.
March 2012 - Purim in History & Meta-History: The Talmudic Tension Between the Queen and the Rabbis - at the University of Pennsylvania
Winter 2011-2012 - After the Hurricane: The Struggle for Israel 1945-1949
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield - July 2011
Eishes Chayil, Pope, Rabbis
The Battle between Gracia Mendes and Pope Paul IV in the 1550s View this lecture online
Whose Truth? How Jews and Egyptians Battled Over the Passover Narrative 2,000 Years Ago (at the Jewish Museum of Maryland) View this lecture online
Winter 2010-2011 - The Hurricane: The Holocaust, and Steps and Missteps on the Road to the Establishment of a State of Israel
Thoughts on a Transitional Decade: Unity and Disunity in the Baltimore Jewish Community in the 1940s -- This lecture sponsored by the Leibtag family in honor of the first Yahrzeit of Mrs. Rose Leibtag
2010 Three Weeks Lecture Series: Cossacks & Jews, 1648-1649
Lecture on the occasion of the second yahrtzeit of Rabbi Katz's mother, Mrs. Lenka Katz, A"H: Reb Elchonon, Immanuel Kant, and the Sefer Ha-Bris: Deconstructing Maimonidean Metaphysics in the Dorm of the Telshe Yeshiva in the Late 19th Century? This lecture series is available online: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7
The Stormy Years of the Twentieth Century: 1914-1934 - started October 24th, 2009
The Crisis of Traditionalism and the Emergence of Orthodoxy in the Nineteenth Century
The Slippery Slope: Chanukah to Tisha B'Av
Prelude to the Twentieth Century:
The Jews in America and in Eretz Yisrael in the Nineteenth Century
Churban 1492: The Jews of Spain - Acceptance, Excellence, Explusion
Summer 2011: Five-part lecture series entitled: Crusaders and Jews
The four lectures of "The Slippery Slope" series are available in DVD and CD formats. For further information, contact Rabbi Katz at rabbidkatz@gmail.com
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Articles on Rabbi Katz's "Stormy Years" lecture series
JewishByte.com:
"American Jewry to the Rescue - Part 1" - 14 Nov 2009 at Beth Tefiloh
"American Jewry to the Rescue - Part 2" - 21 Nov 2009 at Yeshivat Rambam
Baltimore Jewish Times:
How Dovid Katz's Thirst For Jewish History Bends Minds and Preconceived Notions
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Pictures from Rabbi Katz's lecture entitled "The True Story of Hanukkah" at The Johns Hopkins University Hillel House (7 DEC 2010)
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Rabbi Katz often serves as a scholar-in-residence in communities across North America. Here are a few of of his recent visits and lectures:
Saint Louis Kollel Yarchei Kallah - July 2009
Seattle Kollel - June 2010
Ezra Bessaroth—Seattle Sephardic Bikur Holim—Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath - June 2010
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield - July 2010
Young Israel of Bal Harbour - December 2010
Anshe Sfard Kehillat Torah - Milwaukee, WI - February 2011
Young Israel Shomrei Emunah - Silver Spring, MD - Community Adult Education Project - March 2012
Boca Raton Synagogue - Boca Raton, FL - Synagogue Flyer - May 2012
Boca Raton Synagogue - Boca Raton, FL - May 2012
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield - July 2012
Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue - September 2012
Congregation Ohr Torah - Edison, NJ - November 16-17, 2012
Congregation Beth Jacob - Atlanta, GA - March 15-16, 2013
Tours
Spring 2013 - Philadelphia
Chol HaMoed Pesach 2013 - Washington, DC: United States Capitol and Presidential Memorials
Spring 2012 - Italy
Lectures
Summer 2013 Jewish History Lecture Series - Romans and Jews: The Age of Bar Kochba
Winter 2012-2013 Jewish History Lecture Series - Negotiating Choppy Waters - Israel and the Jews: the New State 1949-1952
Ezekiel Landau and Kabbalah:
Observations on a Recent Historical Controversy
Tisha B'Av Kinos 2012-5772 - (video)
Summer 2012 Lecture Series - The War Against the Jewish Book
The Traditional Kehillah: Family Quarrels vs. Amicable Divorce - Thinking Historically about Rabbi Abraham Rice, his Congregants, & Baltimore's Jewish "Community" in the 19th & 20th Centuries - Date to be determined
Habsburg, Romanov, Rebbe, Shul - Yarhzeit lecture in memory of Mrs. Lenka Katz - June 24th, 2012 -- This video is available online by clicking here.
March 2012 - Purim in History & Meta-History: The Talmudic Tension Between the Queen and the Rabbis - at the University of Pennsylvania
Winter 2011-2012 - After the Hurricane: The Struggle for Israel 1945-1949
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield - July 2011
Eishes Chayil, Pope, Rabbis
The Battle between Gracia Mendes and Pope Paul IV in the 1550s View this lecture online
Whose Truth? How Jews and Egyptians Battled Over the Passover Narrative 2,000 Years Ago (at the Jewish Museum of Maryland) View this lecture online
Winter 2010-2011 - The Hurricane: The Holocaust, and Steps and Missteps on the Road to the Establishment of a State of Israel
Thoughts on a Transitional Decade: Unity and Disunity in the Baltimore Jewish Community in the 1940s -- This lecture sponsored by the Leibtag family in honor of the first Yahrzeit of Mrs. Rose Leibtag
2010 Three Weeks Lecture Series: Cossacks & Jews, 1648-1649
Lecture on the occasion of the second yahrtzeit of Rabbi Katz's mother, Mrs. Lenka Katz, A"H: Reb Elchonon, Immanuel Kant, and the Sefer Ha-Bris: Deconstructing Maimonidean Metaphysics in the Dorm of the Telshe Yeshiva in the Late 19th Century? This lecture series is available online: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7
The Stormy Years of the Twentieth Century: 1914-1934 - started October 24th, 2009
The Crisis of Traditionalism and the Emergence of Orthodoxy in the Nineteenth Century
The Slippery Slope: Chanukah to Tisha B'Av
Prelude to the Twentieth Century:
The Jews in America and in Eretz Yisrael in the Nineteenth Century
Churban 1492: The Jews of Spain - Acceptance, Excellence, Explusion
Summer 2011: Five-part lecture series entitled: Crusaders and Jews
The four lectures of "The Slippery Slope" series are available in DVD and CD formats. For further information, contact Rabbi Katz at rabbidkatz@gmail.com
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Articles on Rabbi Katz's "Stormy Years" lecture series
JewishByte.com:
"American Jewry to the Rescue - Part 1" - 14 Nov 2009 at Beth Tefiloh
"American Jewry to the Rescue - Part 2" - 21 Nov 2009 at Yeshivat Rambam
Baltimore Jewish Times:
How Dovid Katz's Thirst For Jewish History Bends Minds and Preconceived Notions
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Pictures from Rabbi Katz's lecture entitled "The True Story of Hanukkah" at The Johns Hopkins University Hillel House (7 DEC 2010)
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Rabbi Katz often serves as a scholar-in-residence in communities across North America. Here are a few of of his recent visits and lectures:
Saint Louis Kollel Yarchei Kallah - July 2009
Seattle Kollel - June 2010
Ezra Bessaroth—Seattle Sephardic Bikur Holim—Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath - June 2010
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield - July 2010
Young Israel of Bal Harbour - December 2010
Anshe Sfard Kehillat Torah - Milwaukee, WI - February 2011
Young Israel Shomrei Emunah - Silver Spring, MD - Community Adult Education Project - March 2012
Boca Raton Synagogue - Boca Raton, FL - Synagogue Flyer - May 2012
Boca Raton Synagogue - Boca Raton, FL - May 2012
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield - July 2012
Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue - September 2012
Congregation Ohr Torah - Edison, NJ - November 16-17, 2012
Congregation Beth Jacob - Atlanta, GA - March 15-16, 2013
Tours
Spring 2013 - Philadelphia
Chol HaMoed Pesach 2013 - Washington, DC: United States Capitol and Presidential Memorials
Spring 2012 - Italy