Jews in Modern Europe

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Upcoming Events
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Reflections on Early Holocaust Cinema: The Case of the Vanishing Jew
Stuart Liebman - member of the Ph.D. Faculties of Art History and Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, November 30, 2009
On The Publication of Gertrude Himmelfarb's The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
Adam Kirsch - Contributing editor to Harvard Magazine, regular contributor to The New Yorker and The Times Literary Supplement
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The November 1938 'Kristallnacht' Pogrom in History and Memory
Alan Steinweiss - Professor of History; Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Monday, December 7, 2009
The Aftermath and After: Memories of the Holocaust Child Survivors
Joanna Michlic - Director of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust, Brandeis University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Past Events
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Private Life of a Noble Jewish Woman in Tsarist Russia: Gender in the Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova (1862-1952)
ChaeRan Freeze - Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and Graduate Chair of Women\'s and Gender Studie, Brandeis University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Recent Research in Yiddish Travel Literature
Yuri Vedenyapin - Preceptor in Yiddish, Harvard University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Jews, Catholics, and the Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism in the Age of the French Kulturkampf, 1870-1886
Vicki Caron - Cornell University and currently fellow of Radcliffe Institute,
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
"An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Problems"
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Cosmopolitans in an Ethnonational Age? Jews and Austrians in the First Republic
Malachi Hacohen - Associate Professor and Bass Fellow, History, Political Science and Religion, Duke University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Goldman Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, February 5, 2009
The Holocaust in German-Occupied Soviet Territory and the Response by Soviet Jewish Intellectuals
Joshua Rubenstein - Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
Samuel Kassow - Professor of History, Trinity College
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Psychiatry and Prejudice: Perceptions of the Orient among European Jewish Immigr
Rakefet Zalashik - Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall

 

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tsen Brider: A Russian-Jewish Folksong Becomes a Concentration Camp Requiem
Joshua Jacobson - Professor of Music, Northeastern University
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Location:
 
Cabot Room, Busch Hall