12.30-13.00 – The opening of the conference

14.30-16.00 – Panel 1

Chairman - Boris ANAN’ICH, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg,Russia)

Oleg BUDNITSKII, International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies and Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
The World Crisis of 1914-1920 and the Split of the Russian Jewry

Irina ALEKSEEVA, Herzen State Pedagogical University (St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Jewish Population of the Front-Line Areas of Russia in 1915-1917

Jonathan DEKEL-CHEN, The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Agricultural Colonization: At the Crossroads of Domestic Revolution and International Continuity

16.30–18.00 – Panel 2

Chairperson - Gabriella SAFRAN, Stanford University (USA)

Sergei Pivovarchik, Grodno Yanka Kupala State University (Belarus)
Tragedies of World War I: the “Jewish Spies”. (Based on the Materials of the National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno).

John KLIER, University College, London (Great Britain)
What was different about «military» pogroms?

Vladlen IZMOZIK, North-Western State Technical University (St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Jewish Question in the Materials of Perlustration during World War I

18.00-18.45 - Presentation of publications of the International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies

Monday, November 8

10.00-12.00 - Panel 3

Chairman - John KLIER, University College, London (Great Britain)

Semen GOL’DIN, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
The Russian High Command and the Jews during World War I: Negative Stereotype and Its Causes

Eugene M. AVRUTIN, Colby College (USA)
Baptized Jews and the Politics of Everyday Life in Tsarist Russia

Frank M. SCHUSTER, Lodz University (Poland)
«Give me some bread, and I will give you a girl» - poverty, smuggling, espionage,
and prostitution in Jewish context during World War I

Boris KOLONITSKY, the St. Petersburg Institute of History, the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
The Jews and Anti-Semitism in the Criminal Cases on Insults of Members of the Russian Imperial House (1914-1916)

12.30-13.30 - Panel 4

Chairman - Szymon RUDNITSKY, Warsaw University (Poland)

Anatoly IVANOV, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
The Jewish Student Body during World War I

Anastasia TUMANOVA, Tambov Derzhavin State University (Russia)
The Jewish Public Organizations during World War I

15.00–17.00 - Panel 5

Chairman - Ruvin FERBER, Latvian University (Latvia)

Lilia KAL’MINA, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia)
Zionism in Siberia in 1914-1920: From Equality to Self-Determination

Gennady KOSTYRCHENKO, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
The National Challenge of Zionists and the Class Answer of the Bolsheviks. The First Steps of the Soviet Power in Solving the Jewish Question

Semen CHARNIY, the International Historical and Enlightenment Human Rights and Humanitarian Society Memorial (Moscow, Russia)
The Jewish Religious Communities during the Civil War

Sergei YAROV, the European University at St. Petersburg, the St. Petersburg Institute of History, the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
The Jewish “Theme” in the Worker Disturbances in Petrograd in 1921 (Based on the Materials of the Central Archive for Historical and Political Documents)

Tuesday, November 9

9.30 -11.30 – Panel 6

Chairperson - Larisa LEMPERTENE, the Vilnius Center of the Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews (Lithuania)

Victor KEL’NER, the Russian National Library, the St. Petersburg Judaica Center at the European University in St. Petersburg (Russia)
From Historical Illusions to Historical Reality (S.M. Dubnov in the Epoch of Wars and Revolutions)

Nikolai TSIMBAEV, Moscow State University (Russia)
Mikhail Gershenzon and Grigory Landau: Historiosophy on the Ruins of the Empire

Vladimir KHAZAN, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
The Jewish World of Andrey Sobol’ in the Mirror of the Russian Revolution (Upon Archival Materials)

Mikhail KRUTIKOV, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA)
The Year of 1919 and the Revolution in Jewish Poetry

12.00-14.00 – Panel 7

Chairman - Aleksandr KAMENSKII, Russian State University for the Humanities (Russia)

Gabriella SAFRAN, Stanford University (USA)
«Let the blister burst!»: S. An-sky in the Borderlands

Victoria MOCHALOVA, Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization “Sefer”, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
The Outbreak of the War in the Eyes of the Jewish Intellectuals

Szymon RUDNITSKY, Warsaw University (Poland)
On the Jews’ Attitude Towards the Polish Independence

Vygantas VAREIKIS, Klaipeda University (Lithuania)
Problems of Political Cooperation between the Jews and Lithuanians after World War I

15.30-17.00 – Round table. Joint discussion

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