Media

Recent Interviews

• On Yiddish language and culture, then and now, from the shtetl to Texas

Recent Public Lectures

“Laughing Through the Tears? On Humor as Jewish American ‘Identity’”

“Circumstantial Character:  Why a Few People Rescued Others from the Holocaust”

“Spielberg’s Shoah: Everything You Didn’t Already Know about Schindler’s List“

“When Dustin Met Barbra: American Jewish Cinema in the ‘New Hollywood’”

“Shoah Business? The ‘Tragedy’ of ‘Comedy’ in Some Recent Holocaust Films”