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
Select lectures now available in podcast format!
Jewish History Lecture Series 2024-2025 – A New Century, but No Peace
Jewish History Lecture Series Summer 2024 – Zionism in the Fin de Siecle: Contents and Discontents
Scholar-in-Residence Baltimore January 2024
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 15, 2023
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield July 2022
Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst December 2021
Bais Medrash of Lawrence – December 2021
Congregation Beth Haknesses Hachodosh Rochester NY – November 2021
Congregation Bais Avigdor Wesley Hills – October 2021
Tisha B’Av 2021 – Kinos Explicated by Rabbi Dovid Katz
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2021
Shavuos night at Beth Abraham 2021
Lecture Series – ממלשון Yiddish in Jewish History
Three Weeks Lecture Series 2020 – Jews and Lithuanians: Glory – Horror – Revisionist History
Three Weeks Lecture Series 2018 – “פה לין” – Poles and Jews in 2018
Revolution! Jews and the Great European Revolutions
Yahrzeit lecture commemorating the 47th yahrzeit of Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Hertzberg, זצ״ל: Rabbis, Presidents, Immigration
(Video of the lecture can be seen here)
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2017 – Communities and Rabbis in Various Combinations
Kultukampf – השכלה :The Haskalah Wars – 2017 Three Weeks Lecture Series
The Balfour Declaration – A five part lecture series on its 100th anniversary – June 19th-23rd 2017
Three Weeks Lecture Series 2016 – “After 1492 – Inquisition and Jews”
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2016
Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Jews: A Remarkable Yet Unknown Chapter in American History – June 2016
Mini-Medical Symposium on Jews, Weight and Health
The Jewish Doctor, the Fat King and the Tenth-century Diet that Made History: A Tale from the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry – June 26, 2016 at Tudor Heights (watch video here)
All-night Shavuos Program 2016 – Congregation Beth Abraham – Baltimore, MD
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun – Teaneck, NJ – Scholar in Residence – February 2016
Anshe Sfard Kehilat Torah – Milwaukee, WI – Scholar-in-Residence – December 2015
Winter Medical Symposium – Did the Rambam’s Medical Practice Affect his Learning?
(Watch this event on YouTube)
Wine, Vinegar…and Honey?
Lecture on the occasion of the seventh yahrzeit of Mrs. Lenka Katz
Language, Prayer and The Language of Prayer:
Controversies Chttps://congbethabrahamhertzberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/30.yahrzeit_lecture_2014_v3.pdfoncerning Different “Hebrews” Over 1500 Years – June 30th, 2014
(in commemoration of the sixth yahrzeit of Mrs. Lenka Katz, a”h)
Video of this lecture is available by clicking here.
Summer 2013 Jewish History Lecture Series – Romans and Jews: The Age of Bar Kochba
Why Wouldn’t They Let Us In? America, Jews, Quotas, Hitler, War: Unintended Consequences of America’s Closing of The Golden Door – In commemoration of the fifth yahrtzeit of Rabbi Katz’s mother, Mrs. Lenka Katz, A”H.
Video of this lecture is available by clicking here.
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
Habsburg, Romanov, Rebbe, Shul – Yarhzeit lecture in memory of Mrs. Lenka Katz – June 24th, 2012 — This video is available online by clicking here.
Winter 2011-2012 – After the Hurricane: The Struggle for Israel 1945-1949
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2011
Summer 2011: Five-part lecture series entitled: Crusaders and Jews
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
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 – October 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
Seven Famous Jewish Historians
The four lectures of “The Slippery Slope” series are available in DVD and CD formats. For further information, contact Rabbi Katz at [email protected]
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Baltimore Jewish Times:
How Dovid Katz’s Thirst For Jewish History Bends Minds and Preconceived Notions
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Scholar-in-Residence
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
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
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2013 or Bais Medrash of Bergenfield’s version
Brith Sholom Beth Israel Synagogue – Shavuos 2014 Retreat – Charleston, SC
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2014
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2015
Seattle – Scholar in Residence – October 2015
Persian Hebrew Congregation of Skokie and Young Israel of Skokie – November 2015
Chicago – Aron and Rivka Friedman Kollel Yom Rishon – November 2015
The Bais Medrash of Bergenfield – July 2016 – Scholar-in-Residence
Boca Raton Synagogue – May 2018
Young Israel of Bal Harbor – January 2019
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun Teaneck, NJ – January 2019
Williams Island (FL) – The Willie and Celia Trump Synagogue – February 1-2, 2019
Ner Yisrael Community – London, England – Parshas Korach – July 2019 – Scholar-in-Residence
Young Israel of Fort Lee (NJ) – Scholar-in-Residence – December 2019
Suburban Torah – Ohel Yosef – Livingston, NJ – Scholar-in-Residence – February 2020
Young Israel of Boca Raton – February 2020
Jewish History Trip to Israel 1.9.2023-1.15.2023 – קום התהלך בארץ
October 2019 – Museum of the Bible – Washington, DC
July 2019 – Jewish History Tour of Central Europe – Itinerary
Thanksgiving week 2017: Israel with Rabbi Binyamin Marwick and Rabbi Dovid Katz
August 2016 – Vienna and Prague
Summer 2014 -Young Professionals/Singles Jewish History Tour of Prague, Vienna, and Budapest
Chol HaMoed Pesach 2014 – Mount Vernon: Home of George Washington
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – July 2013
Chol HaMoed Pesach 2013 – Washington, DC: United States Capitol and Presidential Memorials