What a great way to spend an evening! First, the winning bidder will receive two tickets to attend the lecture: A Discussion on Sid Caesar: The Man Who Started It All , then will enjoy sharing a post-lecture drink with Professor Dauber.

From the beginning, television has provided a home for Jewish actors and writers. They play central roles in shaping one of the most powerful forces of our time and television, in turn, presented Jews to America. Jeremy Dauber looks at some of the most important programs and people in American tele-vision and American Jewish history.

There would be no Jewish television without Emmy-winning, Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows. There might not be television at all, at least as we know it. View and discuss clips from Caesar’s greatest programs and explore the formation of a new medium and how Jews adapted to and flourished in its possibilities.

Jeremy Dauber is the Atran Associate Professor of Modern Yiddish Literature at Columbia University.