A reminder…
Wednesday, November 3
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar
on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"From
'Narodnichestvo' to the Jewish 'Narod': Lev Shternberg's Search for a Secular
Humanistic Judaism"
Sergei
Kan, Professor of
Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College; Center Associate,
Davis Center
1730
Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00
p.m.
Lev
Shternberg (1861-1927) is best known as one of the leading anthropologists of
the late imperial and early Soviet Russia. However, he was also an active
participant in the last stage of the radical Narodnichestvo movement of the
1880s and played a prominent role in cultural and political activities of the
liberal Jewish intelligentsia of St. Petersburg in the first two decades of the
20th century. Drawing on the material from his recently published
biography of Shternberg, Sergei Kan will discuss Shternberg’s vision of a
humanistic cultural Judaism that would bring the Russified Jewish
intelligentsia back to the Jewish narod.
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Please note future meetings of the Seminar on Russian and East
European Jewish Studies:
Wednesday, December 1
Topic, TBA
Anna
Shternshis,
Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages
and
Literatures and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of
Toronto
Wednesday, December 8
"The
Russian Canon as Prooftext: Sholem Aleichem Reads the Russians, from Gogol to
Gorky"
Amelia
Glaser,
Associate Professor of
Russian Literature, University of California, San Diego
(All
seminars in this series will be held in CGIS South, Room S354, 4:15-6:00pm.)
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Eurasian Studies
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