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The following seminar has been cancelled:/
Friday, October 5
Comparative Economics Seminar
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"Comparison of Central Asian Economics//"///
Martin Spechler, Professor of Economics, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Dear Colleagues,
Attached please find the fall schedule for the Davis Center's Seminar on
Russian and East European Jewish Studies. The seminar will continue to
meet on Wednesdays at 4:15-6:00 in CGIS South Room S354. We very much
look forward to seeing you there.
Lis Tarlow and Steve Zipperstein
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*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
CALENDAR
Fall 2007*
(All seminars will be held in CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 3^rd
floor, Room S354, at 4:15-6:00.)
*Wednesday, October 17*
"In Search of Jewish-Russian Literature"
Maxim Shrayer, Professor of Russian and English, Boston College;
Associate, Davis Center; Editor, /An Anthology of Jewish-Russian
Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry /(M.E.
Sharpe, 2007)
Discussant: Julie Buckler, Professor of Slavic Languages and
Literatures; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
*Wednesday, October 31*
"The Bund and the Jewish Religion, 1897-1917: A Reconsideration"
David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History, Jewish Theological Seminary;
Director, Project Judaica
*Wednesday, November 7*
"Anti-Semitism without Jews in Communist Poland: Thoughts from 1971"
Thomas W. Simons Jr., Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard
University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Former Ambassador to Poland
and Pakistan
*Wednesday, November 28
*"Polonophilia in Interwar Yiddish Culture: The Case of Avrom Sutzkever"
Yuri Vedenyapin, Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University; Faculty
Associate, Davis Center
*Wednesday, December 5*
/"A Community under Siege: The Jews of Breslau under Nazism" /(Stanford
University Press, 2007)
Abraham Ascher, Professor Emeritus of History, Graduate Center, City
University of New York
For further information, please contact:
Penny Skalnik, Events Coordinator, Davis Center
(617-384-8438; skalnik(a)fas.harvard.edu)
