Please note the following event reminders:
Wednesday, November 9
Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar
"Jews and East European Cities" Series, Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish
Studies; Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for
European Studies; and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
"In the Shadow of the Shtetls in Soviet Podolia: Jewish Memory in Eastern
Europe"
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History; Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies;
Director, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
A light lunch will be served.
Thursday, November 10
Informing Eurasia Seminar
"There Is No Such City as London': The Idea of the West in Polish Film Pre- and
Post-1989"
Justyna Beinek, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley
(rangley@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information.
Sunday, November 13
Roundtable discussion:
"THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING JEWISH IMMIGRANTS: IMPRESSIONS FROM THE FIELD"
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University presents a
discussion examining the impact of a modern day Jewish Diaspora, November 13, 2011
The Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University announces a roundtable discussion that will examine the impact of the
contemporary Russian-speaking Jewish Diaspora on the cultural, social, and political life
in the countries of its largest presence, as well as the countries from which it
emigrated.
A roundtable discussion, "The Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants: Impressions from
the Field," will be held on Sunday, November 13, 7:30-9:30pm at Center for Government
and International Studies (CGIS-South), 1730 Cambridge Street, in the Tsai Auditorium,
Room S-010. The panel will be introduced by Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor
of Russian Studies and Director of the Davis Center, and moderated by conference Co-Chair,
Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic
Studies at the University of Michigan. Specialists will discuss how this contemporary
Diaspora has changed the societies in general, and the Jewish communities in particular of
the sending and receiving countries. Discussants include Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief
Rabbi of Moscow and President of the Conference on European Rabbis; Barry Shrage,
President of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston; Sergei Lagodinsky, Fellow at the
Global Policy Institute in Berlin; and Vladimir Khanin, Chief Scientist of the Israeli
Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. This event
is free and open to the public.
For further information about the Roundtable Discussion, contact:
Matt Weinberg, Project Coordinator
617-496-9536
mweinberg@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mweinberg@fas.harvard.edu>
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Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking
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Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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