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Has appeared in pprint: A.F. Perelman «Memoirs».

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 06 July 2009
The publishing house «European House» published the memoirs of Aron Perelman the last owner of the famous publishing house “Brokgauz Efron”, one of the establishers of the magazine Jewish World and Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society. The text was prepared by Evgeny Gollerbah, who made his research within the framework of the Grant programme of 2005 of the International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies.

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 01 April 2009
The 5th Volume of the Archive for Jewish History was published in the publishing house ROSSPEN.

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 24 – 25 Ноября 2009

Российская государственная библиотека по искусству приглашает принять участие в научной конференции Шестые Международные Михоэлсовские чтения, которые пройдут 24-25 ноября 2009 г.  Конференция 2007 года продолжает рассмотрение научной проблемы «Национальный  театр в контексте многонациональной культуры».

Театроведы, филологи, библиографы, сотрудники библиотек, музеев, архивов, а также книговеды, редакторы и издатели, журналисты, преподаватели и другие специалисты, занимающиеся проблемами национального театра и межнациональных  театральных связей, приглашаются принять участие в Чтениях.

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 2-4 December 2009

The International conference Dialogue of generations in the context of Slavic and Jewish cultural traditionswill be held on December, 2-4, 2009 at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Organizers: Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization Sefer, the Institute of Slavic studies (RAS), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Jewish Age

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International conference “Jewish Emigration from Russia (1881-2005).

Moscow, hotel Ukraina, December 10-12, 2006.

Program

December 10.

12:00-13:00 - The opening ceremony of the conference

13.00-14.00 - lunch

14.00-15.30
The Beginning of Exodus: Theory and Practice
Chair: Oleg Budnitskii (International center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies and Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

Jonathan Frankel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). The Emigration Dilemma and the Early Zionists: Ahad haAm and Max Nordau.
Victor Kelner( Russian National Library and the St.Petersburg Judaica Center at the European University, St-Petersburg, Russia). Between Haifa and New York: Discussion of the Ways of Emigration and the Fate of  Russian Jewry in 1881-1882.
John Klier (University College, London, UK). "Psst!  Want to Cross the Border?  Meet Me at Itzig's Tavern at Midnight"

15.30-16.00 - сoffee-break

16.00-18.00
Russian Jews in the Old World and the New
Chair: Nikolai Bogomolov (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

Sam Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom) 'The Jewish Chronicle and Emigration, 1880-1914'
Victoria Zhuravleva (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia). “Settlement House Movement” in the United States and the Problem of Adaptation of the Russian-Jewish Emigres
Brian Horowitz (Tulane University, USA). Emigration as a Creative Impulse: The Life of Herman Rosenthal
Nadezhda Ablova. (Belorussian State University of Economics) “Jewish Life” – An Important Source on History of the Jewish Emigration in China (1920s – 1940s).

December 11.

10.00-11.30.
Jewish Emigration from the USSR in the Post-WII Period
Chair: Edith Rogovin Frankel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Dov Levin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). The Organized Escape  (Bericha) of Jewish Holocaust Survivors from the Baltic States Toward the End of WW II and Afterwards: 1944-1946
Yaacov Ro'i (Tel Aviv University, Israel). Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union, 1948 – 1967
Gennady Kostyrchenko (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia). Policies of the Soviet Leadership regarding the Jewish Emigration after the XX Congress of the CPSU (1956-1991).

11.30-12.00 - coffee-break

12.00-13.30
Jewish Emigration from the USSR in the the last third ofthe XXth-beginning of the XXIth century
Chair: Aleksandr Lokshin (Institute for Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

Michael Beizer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ). Assisting the Jews of Struggle. The Post-WWII Relief-in-Transit Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and of the Israeli "Nativ" for the Eastern Europe and the Soviet Jewry Emigration Movement
Ivan Tolstoy (Radio Liberty, Prague, Czechia). At the Roots of the Third Wave: Evolution of the Views of the West upon the Jewish Emigration Based on Materials of Radio Liberty from 1970s.
Elena Nosenko (Institute for Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ) “Whether they wanted to leave? Why are they staying?” Jewish emigration from Russia at the turn of XX-XXI centuries and Jewish self-identification of the descendents of mixed marriages

13.30-14.30 - lunch

14.30-16.00
Russian-Jewish Berlin
Chair: Szymon Rudnitsky (Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland)

Anne-Christin Sa? (Osteuropa-Institut der Freien Universitat, Berlin, Germany). „Ikh bin an emigrant… tsvishn emigrantn… ikh vil es mer nisht…“ 
Russian Jewish migrants in Berlin 1918-1933
Verena Dohrn (Gottingen University, Gottingen, Germany). Daily News from the Jews in the Russian-Jewish Berlin. The Beginning of Jewish Telegraphic Agency: A New Space of Trans-territorial Communication in the Jewish World

16.00-16.30 - coffee break

16.30-17.30
Presentation of the Publishing Program of the International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies

December 12.

10:00-11:30
Here and There: Literature and Folklore of the Jewish Emigres in Australia, Israel and Germany
Chair: Olga Belova (International center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies and Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

Galina Eliasberg (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia). Life of the Jewish Emigres in Australia in 1920s-1970s According to the Classics of Australian Jewish Literature: P. Goldhar, G. Bergner, and I. Woten
Maria N. Yelenevskaya, Larisa Fialkova (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel).  City Images in Stories about Immigration: Domestication of the New Space by Russian-Speaking Israelis
Olaf Terpitz (Leipzig University, Germany). Trans-national and cultural aspects of “here” and “there”. The migration of the 1990s in literary discourse.

11.30-12.00 - coffee-break

12:00 – 13:30
Looking Back: Russia in the Literature and Art of the Jewish Emigres
Chair: Rashid Kaplanov (Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization “Sefer”, Moscow, Russia)

Mikhail Krutikov (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA). “Fallen Leaves”: Russian Intelligentsia in American Yiddish Literature
Leonid Katsis (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia). Introduction to the New Jewish Theater of Marc Chagall: Paris – Moscow – Paris – New York – Paris.
Nikolai Bogomolov (Moscow State University, Russia). Mikhail Gershenzon between Russia and Emigration.

13.30-14.30 - lunch

14.30-15.15
Presentation of the Publishing House “Gesharim”

15.15-16.00
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