*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
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*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
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*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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Harvard University
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
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