*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
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*CALENDAR*
*2006-2007*
(All seminars will be held in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 3^rd
floor, Room S 354, at 4:15-6:00, unless otherwise indicated.)
*Tuesday, October 31*
*NB: 12:15-2:00pm*
"Jewish Life in Moscow Today"
/Yevgenia Albats/,* *Professor of Political Science, State University
Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Radio Host, Ekho Moskvy
Broadcasting /
Pinchas Goldschmidt/, Chief Rabbi, Moscow
*Wednesday, December 6*
"Re-writing East European Jewish Urban History"
/Elissa Bemporad/, Historian of Russian and Yiddish Collections,
Gruss-Lipper Project on Jewish Life in Poland, YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research
/Rebecca Kobrin/, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
Discussant:
/Steven Zipperstein/, Associate, Davis Center; Daniel E. Koshland
Professor in Jewish Culture and History, and Director, Taube Center for
Jewish Studies, Stanford University
*Wednesday, January 31*
"Sleep Faster, I Need the Pillow: Sholem Aleichem and the Secular
Reading of Russian-Jewish History"
/Olga Litvak/, Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History, Princeton
University
*Wednesday, February 7*
"History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto Archive"
/Samuel Kassow/, Professor of History, Princeton University
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*Wednesday, February 28*
"On Communism and the Jews"
/Anthony Michels/, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
/Ruth Wisse/, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and
Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
*Wednesday, March 7*
"The Other Babel"
/Gregory Freidin/, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Stanford
University
*Wednesday, March 14*
"What the Soviets Knew about the Holocaust and What They Did with It"
/Zvi Gitelman,/ Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and
Research Scientist, Center for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Michigan
*Wednesday, March 21*
"Making Yiddish Culture Bolshevik: National Autonomy, Cultural Power,
and the Revolutionary Imperative in Soviet Jewish Culture, 1919-21"
/Kenneth Moss/, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; *Assistant Professor of
*Modern Jewish History, Johns Hopkins University
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Dear friends,
The following seminar has been temporarily postponed.
Lis Tarlow and Steve Zipperstein
*/Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Davis Center/
**Wednesday, November 1
4:15-6:00
CGIS S354*
"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century
Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"
/David Engel/*, *Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies,
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Professor of History, New York
University
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
We are pleased to announce an upcoming production of
/The Seagull/
Directed and translated by Laurence Senelick
The Balch Arena Theatre
Tufts University, Medford
October 26-28, 8:00 p.m.
November 2-4, 8:00 p.m.
November 4, 2:00 p.m.
Tickets can be obtained by phoning the box office at 617-627-3493
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Dear friends,
This note is to alert you to two upcoming talks in the Seminar on
Russian and East European Jewish Studies at the Davis Center (described
below). Please forward this information to any of your colleagues and
students who might be interested in attending. We hope to see you there.
Lis Tarlow and Steve Zipperstein
*/Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Davis Center/
Tuesday, October 31
12:15-2:00pm
CGIS S354*
"Jewish Life in Moscow Today"
/Yevgenia Albats/,* *Professor of Political Science, State University
Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Independent Journalist and Radio
Host, Ekho Moskvy Broadcasting
/Pincas Goldschmidt/, Chief Rabbi, Moscow
*Wednesday, November 1
4:15-6:00
CGIS S354*
"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century
Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"
/David Engel/*, *Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies,
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Professor of History, New York
University
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
*The Joseph Fletcher Memorial Lecture *
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
*Françoise Aubin*
Research Director Emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific
Research (CNRS)
"Reflections on the Fletcher Legacy"
Tsai Audiorium, Room S010, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
The lecture will be followed by an Informal Reception in the Public
Gathering Room (S030) on the Concourse Level, to which all are invited.
/This lecture is sponsored by The Joseph F. Fletcher Jr. Fund for Inner
Asian Studies. /
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu