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., 3rd
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
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