[Daviscenter-list] Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies, CALENDAR 2006-2007

*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* *Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies* * * *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 * * *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 -- -------------------------------------------------- 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