Webinars
* Traditional decoration of Jewish tombstones in Eastern Europe (mini-course by Mikhail Vasiliev, 15.04, 22.04, 29.04)
In the 2019/2020 academic year the followinglectures and mini-courses were held
(Courses are in Russian)
* Architecture of utopian imagination (lecture by Viktor Wachstein, 02.09)
• Urbanghetto: the trajectory of a single concept (lecture by Viktor Wachstein, 03.09)
* Anti-Semitism in modern Russia-the main myths and stories (lecture by Viktor Shnirelman, 10.09)
* Careful,matzo! The struggle against the "religious attribute" in the USSR (lecture by Alexandra Arkhipova, 14.09)
• "Neighbors not of our faith": Jews in the memoirs of modern oldbelievers in Moldova (lecture by Natalia Dushakova, 17.09)
* Memorial culture in the digital age: total Yolocaust (lecture by Oksana Moroz, 20.09)
* Soap madefrom Jews: reality and legends of the Holocaust (lecture by Alexandra Arkhipova, 21.09)
* Jews andsports: a controversial phenomenon of modernity (Maxim Gammal mini-course, 4.10, 11.10, 18.10, 25.10)
* Dura-Europos-a vivid evidence of Jewish life in late antiquity (mini-course by Lidia Ñhak'ovskaya, 15.10, 16.10, 22.10)
* Discourses of Anti-Semitism in the Public Sphere (lecture by Johannes Angermuller in English, 11.11)
* Theory ofthe "zhidomason" conspiracy (lecture by Anastasia Astapova, 20.11)
* Jewish Ethnography (mini-course by Maria Kaspina, 8.11, 15.11, 22.11, 29.11)
* Jewishartist Lazar Lisitsky (mini-course by Valery Dymshits, 12.11, 19.11, 26.11)
• Modern mountain-Jewish community of Derbent: how we study it (collective course of Svetlana Amosova, Maria Vyatchina, Svetlana Pogodina, Arusyak Aghababyan, Elizaveta Zabolotnykh 13.12, 17.12, 20.12)
* Thelegend of Jewish ritual murder in European and Russian culture (lecture by Alexander Panchenko 22.12)
* Messiahs and their friends about telling themselves: genre and identity of early moderntimes (lecture by Mark M. Gondelman, 24.12)
* Vowels in modern Hebrew (mini-course by Sergey Belousov, 22.01, 29.01)
* Sleepless nights of the Bible poets: how Psalms ' work’ (mini-course by Mikhail Vogman, 14.01, 21.01, 28.01, 11.02)
• European literature in Hebrew of the first half - mid-XIX century (mini-course of Alexandra Polyan, 26.02, 4.03, 11.03)
- Oral history and folklore of Soviet Jews about the Second World War (mini-course by Anna Shternshis, 5.09 and 12.09)
- The issue of the stranger in social theory: locals, old-timers and newcomers (lecture by Victor Vakhstain, 4.09)
- Between the' blood libel 'and the 'Jewish Kingdom': how the moral panic arose during the 'doctors' case' of 1953(lecture by Alexandra Arkhipova, 8.09)
- "Prozhito" - web archive of personal diaries: working with texts in the digital age (lecture by Mikhail Melnichenko, 22.09)
- The category of "Schicksalsgemeinschaft": the history of its neglect and rehabilitation (lecture by Viktor Vakhshtain, 23.09)
- How to read images on Jewish tombstones? (mini-course by Mikhail Vasiliev, 28.09, 5.10 and 12.10)
- The alphabetical letter and the beginning of West-Semitic epigraphy (mini-course-by Tanya Notarius, 25.09, 2.10, 9.10)
- Database SFIRA in the Digital Humanities and Jewish studies systems (mini-course by Svetlana Amosova, 9.10 and 23.10)
- "Jewish field" in Moscow suburbs: Jews in the (in)formal Soviet economy of the post-war decades (mini-course by Anna Kushkova, 21.10 and 28.10)
- Jewish burials: history, traditions, texts (mini-course by Alexandra Fischel, 23.10, 30.10 and 6.11)
- Social structure of shtetls (mini-course by Valery Dymshits, 14.11, 18.11 and 21.11)
- Local text of contemporary provincial town (based on field research in Podolia) (mini-course by Michail Lurie, 10.11, 11.11,17.11, 18.11)
- AHEYM database: what to look for, how to find it or at least why to search? (lecture by Dov-Ber Kerler, 22.11)
- Epigraphy of Crimea and Caucasus: Historiography and Recent Discoveries (mini-course by Natalia Kashovskaya, 24.11, 25.11)
- Russian Judaizers: Mysteries and Paradoxes (mini-course by Tatiana Khizhaya, 12.12, 19.12)
- Jean Amery as a Philosopher (lecture by Kirill Martynov, 23.01)
- Philosophy of Hanna Arendt and Giorgio Agamben (lecture by Kirill Martynov, 13.02)
- Jewish Sacred Texts on the Cristian East (mini-course by Alexey Muraviov, 08.02, 15.02, 22.02)
- Jewish Apocalypses in Ancient Times (mini-course by Alexey Sivertsev, 19.02, 26.02, 05.03, 12.03)
- Women in Literatire in Yiddish (mini-course by E. Kuznetsova and A. Liubas, 8.03, 13.03, 20.03)
- Karl Schmitt's Political Theology and Walter Benjamin's Philosophy (lecture by Igor Chiubarov, 02.04)
- Jews and Social Success (mini-course by Maxim Hammal, 3.04, 10.04, 17.04, 24.04)
- Four seminars on the Jewish literary family (mini-course by Mikhail Krutikov, 20.01, 17.02, 17.03, 14.04)
- Political ontology of Martin Heidegger after the release of Black Notebooks (lecture by Mikhail Maiatskiy, 7.05)
- Lectures on history and culture of Mountain Jews (collection of courses)