Russian-Jewish Paris, 1881-1991
Paris, 12-14 November 2008

The colloquium is being held in three different venues connected to the history of immigration or the history of the Jews
The colloquium will be held in three languages, French, Russian and English, with simultaneous two-way interpretation between French and Russian and between French and English.<

November 12:
Conference Venue: Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration

9:00 Openning
Jean-Paul Huchon (President du Conseil Regional d’Ile de France), Patricia Sitruk (Director of Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration), Marianne Amar (Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration), Alain Blum (Director du Centre d’etudes des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-europeen, EHESS/CNRS), Oleg Budnitskii (Director of International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences), Valerie Pozner (Franco-Russian Centre for Human and Social Sciences, MAE/CNRS, Moscow)

9:30 – 11:00
Session 1
Emergence of the Russian Jewish question in France

Chair: Jacques Ehrenfreund (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

• Damien Guillaume (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany): The turning point of the 1880s: the beginnings of anti-Semitic agitation in France and the discovery of the Jewish question in Russia.
• Jean-Philippe Chaumont (Archives Nationales, Paris, France): Religious identities and national identities. The French ministry of religions faced with the emergence of the Russian element in French Judaism. 1881 – 1905.
• Francois Guesnet (University of Oxford, United Kingdom): “The newspapers will talk about it and the Czar will read about it”. Victor Hugo, the pogroms in Russia and the mobilisation of the European public sphere 1881-1882.

11:30 – 12:30
Session 2
Russian Jewish political life in Paris before 1917 

Chair: Sylvie-Anne Goldberg (EHESS, Paris)

• Vladimir Levin (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel): ): France on the Map of the Russian-Jewish Political Emigration Before 1917.
• Irina Sergeeva (Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine): Populist, sociologist, sub-editor, ethnographer: Semion An-sky’s life in Paris.

14:00 – 15:30
Session 3
Professional and philanthropic support networks:

Chair: Catherine Gousseff (CNRS - Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) 

• Alexandre Ivanov (European University at St Petersburg, Russia): Philanthropic activities of ORT Paris (1920s-1930s).
• Claire Zalc (CNRS-ENS, Paris, France): Out to the Paris suburbs! History of overlapping professional careers among Russian Jewish immigrants (1904-1931).
• Lev Mnuhin (Marina Tsvetaeva Museum, Moscow, Russia): Russian Jews in the Mechnikov society of Russian doctors: professional and welfare activities in Paris.

16:00 – 18:00
Roundtable on sources for studying Russian Jewish emigration to France

Chairs: Sabine Breuillard (Bibliotheque Tourgueniev, Paris) and Albert Baumgarten (Bar Ilan University)
Nancy Green (EHESS); Oleg Budnitskii (International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies); Aline Angoustures (Office francais de protection des refugies et apatrides - OFPRA); Jean-Philippe Chaumont; Nathalie Hazan (Mahj); Dmitri Gouzevitch (Cercec, EHESS/CNRS)

November 13
Conference Venue: Memorial de la Shoah

9:30 – 12:00
Session 1
Political and community positioning 1920-1940

Chair: David Weinberg (Wayne University, USA)

• Oleg V. Budnitskii (International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Moscow): Against Bolshevism and Zionism: the weekly Tribune juive (1920-1924).
• Catherine Gousseff (CNRS - Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin): The election of Jakov Rubinstein to represent Russian refugees at the Nansen Office in Geneva: anti-Semitism and political rifts among Russian emigrants
• Gennady Estraikh (New York University, United States): Rebuilding the Russian-Jewish Cultural Territory: The 1937 World Yiddish Cultural Congress.

13:30 – 15:30
Session 2
Social networks within and outside the community:

Chair:  Ariel Sion (Memorial de la Shoah)

• Nadia Malinovich (IEP, Paris, France): Dissolving Boundaries and Creative Interactions between  “immigrant” and “native” Jews in Paris in the 1920s.
• Viktor Kelner (European University at St Petersburg, Russia): The two Parises of Salomon Pozner.
• Shmuel Bunim (Israel): The perception of Russian Jews in the Paris Yiddish press.  

16:00 – 18:00
Session 3
Holocaust: memory, mutual aid, resistance

Chair: Delphine Bechtel (Universite de Paris IV)

• Anne Grynberg (INALCO, Paris, France): Russian and Polish Jews in France before the Second World War: what identity(ies)?
• Harriet Jackson (Yivo, New York, United States): The Resistance and the activities of Rabbi Zalman Chneerson (1937-1947).
• Laura Jockusch (University of Leipzig, Germany): Breaking the Silence: The Role of French Jews of Russian Origin in Early Holocaust Research in France, 1943-1953.
• Laura Hobson Faure (EHESS, Paris, France): Paris between Moscow and New York: The Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) and Jewish Communist organisations in post-War France.

November 14
Conference Venue: Musee d’histoire et d’art du judaisme (MAHJ)

9:00 – 10:30
Session 1
Russian Jews in the art world in Paris

Chair: Nathalie Hazan (MAHJ)

• Dominique Jarasse (Universite de Bordeaux III, France): Naoum Aronson and the first generation of Russian Jewish sculptors in Paris.
• Ewa Berard (ENS-CNRS, Paris, France): The “Pale of Settlement” and the imperial capitals in the Paris melting-pot, 1905-1925: birth of a Jewish modernity.

11:00 – 12:30
Session 2
Intellectuals and writers: monographic studies

Chair: Wladimir Berelowitch (CERCEC, EHESS/CNRS, Paris, France)

• Boris Frezinski (European University at St Petersburg, Russia): The Paris pages in the travels of Oskar M. Leschinsky (1910-1917).
• Iveta Leitane (Centre for Judaic Studies, Riga, Latvia):  Jacob Gordin (1896-1947): the ‘method’ reconsidered.
• Oleg Korostelev (Foundation Russia Abroad, Moscow, Russia): The Vinavers’ salon in Paris

Conference venues:

November 12
Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration
www.histoire-immigration.fr
Address: Palais de la Porte Doree
293, Avenue Daumesnil 75012 Paris
(Underground: Line 8 – station Michel Bizot; Bus: 46, PC2 station Porte Doree)
(Please note that the Porte Doree metro station is closed for renovation)

November 13
Memorial de la Shoah:
www.memorialdelashoah.org
Address: 17 Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier
75004 Paris
(UndergroundLine 1 – station Saint-Paul or Hotel-de-Ville; Line 7 ? station Pont-Marie; Bus 96, 69, 76, 67)

November 14.
Musee d’art et d’histoire du judaisme (MAHJ):
www.mahj.org
Address: Hotel de Saint-Aignan
71, Rue du Temple
75003 Paris
(Underground: station Rambuteau or Hotel de Ville; Bus: 29, 38, 47, 75;
RER: station Chatelet-Les Halles)

The conference organizers:
Center for studies of Russia, Caucasus and Central Europe (Centre d’etudes des mondes russe, caucasien(EHESS/CNRS, Paris)
Franco-Russian Center for Social Sciences (Moscow)
International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies(Moscow)

Partners:
Musee d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme (MAHJ, Paris)
Memorial de la Shoah (Paris)
Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris)
Region Ile de France(Paris)
Centre National de la recherche scientifique(CNRS, Paris)
Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques (Paris)
Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris)

Organising committee
Alain Blum, Oleg Budnitskii, Juliette Cadiot, Catherine Gousseff, Yadranka Krasevec, Marie-Helene Mandrillon, Nathalie Moine, Valerie Pozner, Zina Shvamental

Conference academic advisory board
Chairs:    Oleg Budnitskii and Catherine Gousseff
Members: Wladimir Berelowitch, Juliette Cadiot, Daniel Cohen, Boris Czerny, Valerie Pozner, Anne Grynberg, Viktor Kelner

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