Tuesday, April 4

 South Court Auditorium, The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue & 42 Street

10:00-11:45  Welcome. Panel I: In Search of a New Identity

Moderator: Minda Zetlin, Writer

Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. “Eating Jewish on Two Continents: Russian-Jewish Foodways in an Age of Migration.”
Eve Jochnowitz, New York University, “If You Have Room in Your Heart, You Have Room in Your Home: The Food Worlds of the Yakobov Family.”
Tanya Chebotarev, Columbia University, New York. “Found in Translation: Correspondence between Mirra Ginsburg and Kornei Chukovskii.”

11:45-12:45  Lunch (on your own)

12:45-2:45  Panel II: In Search of a New Identity

Moderator: Ben Nathans, University of Pennsylvania

Abby Knopp, New York University. “Russian-Jewish Identity in 21st Century New York: Finding and Applying a Usable Past.”
Joanne Strasser, New School University, New York. “The Last of the Soviets: A Cultural Study of Ex-Soviet Jews.”
Alla Zeide, Independent Scholar, New York. “Self-Identity and Its Problems: The Case of Alexei Goldenweiser.”

2:45-3:00  Break (coffee, tea)

3:00-4:45  Panel III: Artists and the City

Moderator: Jane Sharp, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Olga Demidova, St.Petersburg State Pedagogical University. “Russian Jewish Paris in Russian-Jewish New York: Forming a New Emigre Capital.”
Musia Glants, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard Univeristy, Cambridge, MA. “The Russian-New York Odyssey of Boris Kramer.”
Edward Kasinec and Elena Kogan, The New York Public Library.
“Russian Jewish Artists in New York: Their Graphic Legacy.”

5:00-6:30  Keynote Address and Reception

Wednesday, April 5

Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 203

10:00-12:00  Panel IV: Russian Jews in New York in the “Age of Immigration”

Moderator: Marina Ledkovsky, Barnard College, New York

Stephen Cassedy, University of California, San Diego. “Dr. George M. Price: A Russian for All Russians and a Jew for All Jews in America.”
Vladimir Khazan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  “Osip Dymov in New York.”
Leonid Katsis, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. “Vladimir Mayakovsky and Russian Jewish New York.”
Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto.  “Who Sits on the Benches of Brighton Beach and Charlottenburg: Ethnic and Religious Identity of Elderly Soviet Jews in New York and Berlin.”

12:00-1:00  Lunch (on your own)

1:00-3:00  Panel V: Multiple Identities: Jewish Publications in New York, 1911-1985

Moderator: Michael Stanislawski, Columbia University

Viktor Kelner, Russian National Library, St. Petersburg. “Leo Deutsch and the New York Newspaper Novyi Mir (1911 – 1916).”
Nikolai Bogomolov, Moscow State University, Moscow. “Experiments: Overcoming the Outcast.”
Ivan Tolstoy, Radio Free Europe, Prague. “In Search of Self-identity: The New York Newspaper Novyi Amerikanets (1980-1985).”
Galina Glushanok, Independent Scholar, St. Petersburg. “Roman Grynberg as a Publisher.”

3:00-3:15  Break (coffee, tea)

3:15-5:15  Panel VI: Politics at the Age of Migration

Moderator: Ziva Galili, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

David Fishman, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. "Bundists in New York and the Creation of the Workmen's Circle Schools."
Oleg Budnitskii, International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Moscow. “New York Jewish Anti-Bolshevism: Arkady Zak and the Russian Information Bureau in New York, 1917-1922.”
Gennady Estraikh, New York University.  “Soviet Politics and New York Jewish Communism.”

Thursday, April 6

Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 203

12:00-2:00  Panel VII: Artists and the City

Moderator: Boris Kerdimun, UJA-Federation of New York

Marina Temkina, Independent Scholar, New York. "The Archive of Jewish Immigrant Culture: Rationale and Disillusionment.”
Boris Sandler, Editor, Yiddish Forward, New York. “Forward: History and Goals.”
Alec Brook-Krasny, Council of Jewish Emigre Community Organizations, New York. “The Russian and Mainstream Jewish Community: Reuniting Rabinowitz and Cohen from New York and Rabinovich and Kogan from Moscow and Kyiv.”
David Mallach, UJA-Federation of New York. “The Russian Speaking Community and the Organized Jewish Community Today.”

2:00-3:00  Lunch (on your own)

3:00-5:00  Panel VII: Jewish Organizations in New York: Problems and Prospects

Moderator: Boris Kerdimun, UJA-Federation of New York

Marina Temkina, Independent Scholar, New York. "The Archive of Jewish Immigrant Culture: Rationale and Disillusionment.”
Boris Sandler, Editor, Yiddish Forward, New York. “Forward: History and Goals.”
Alec Brook-Krasny, Council of Jewish Emigre Community Organizations, New York. “The Russian and Mainstream Jewish Community: Reuniting Rabinowitz and Cohen from New York and Rabinovich and Kogan from Moscow and Kyiv.”
David Mallach, UJA-Federation of New York. “The Russian Speaking Community and the Organized Jewish Community Today.”

2:00-3:00  Lunch (on your own)

3:00-5:00  Panel VIII: New York As Seen by Russian Jews, Russian Jews As Seen by Americans

Moderator: Marc Raeff, Columbia University

Galina Eliasberg, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. “‘Zurik zu zain folk!’: Russian Jewish New York in the 1910s According to Leon Kobrin’s Ideal.”
Victoria Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. “The image of the Russian Jew in Early 20th Century New York Press.”
Sergei Kan, Dartmouth College. “Russian-Jewish New York in the Early 1900s As Seen by Two Narodniks-Ethnographers."

5:00-6:30  Reception at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, and opening of the exhibit The Melting Pot.

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