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


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., 3rd 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@fas.harvard.edu)