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The 9th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies Italy, Ravenna, July 25-29, 2010

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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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Events

 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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IN SEARCH OF THE JEWISH HISTORY (100 years of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society)

June 17-19, 2008, St. Petersburg

Programme

June 17

Gagarinskaya str., 3 EUSP, The White hall

13.30 - 14.00 Registration of participants

14.00 – 14.40 Opening of the conference. Viktor Kelner, Oleg Budnitskii.

14.40 – 16.00 I Session

Kerstin Armborst (Institute of European History, Germany)
The JHES in the European Context – A Comparison of Research Profiles and Historiographical Conceptions.
Hanoch Ben Pazi (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
In search of the Jewish History.
Brian Horowitz (Tulane University, USA)
The Canonization of Russian-Jewish Culture: Retrospection and Idealization

16.00 -16.30. Coffee-break

16.30 – 18.00 II Session

Yvonne Kleimann (Center for East Central European History and Culture at Leipzig University, Germany)
At the Origins of Jewish Ethnography – About the Embedding of Early Jewish Ethnographers
into Russian Scientific Circles and Imperial Ethnic Politics.
Efim Melamed (Kiev History Museum, Ukraine)
The Fate of the Archives of Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society: Towards the Issue
of Lost and Displaced Records
Michael Beizer (Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel)
Where Can One Still Look for the History of Petersburg Jews? Archival Collections of Foreign
Sponsors.

18.00. Reception

 

18 June

Gagarinskaya str., 3 EUSP, The White hall

10.30 – 12.00 I Session

Vladimir Levin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
The Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society in the System of Voluntary Associations of
Russian Jewry.
Anatoly Khaesh (Petersburg Judaica, Russia)
Activity of the JHES for the Rescue of objects of Jewish Culture of Northwest and Western
Territories of Russia (1915 - 1917).
Michael Nosonovsky (Independent scholar, USA)
Petersburg Historical and Ethnographic Society and Hebrew Inscriptions from the Crimea: how Chwolson’s Mistakes Were Accepted.

12.00 -12.30. Coffee-break

12.30 – 14.00 II Session

Cecile E. Kuznitz (Bard College, USA)
The Vilna Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Society.
Vera Knorring (National Russian Library, Russia)
“In the field of a history we are going to embrace all epochs…” Journal “Jewish Antiquity” and Its Role in Historiography of the East-European Jewry.
Benyamin Lukin (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Israel)
Centenary Anniversary of the War of 1812: Responses of Petersburg’s Jewish Historians.

14.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 16.30 III Session

Viktoria Mochalova (Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Russja)
Majer Balaban's Contribution to the Study of Jewish History in Eastern Europe
Galina Eliasberg (The Russian State University for the Humanities. Moscow, Russia)
“He Was A Historian in the True Sense of the Word”: P.S. Marek and His Unpublished Book
«The History of Jewish Intelligentsia».
Alicia Gojman de Backal (National University of Mexico, Mexico)
Jewish Life in Pogrebische, a Little Town in Ukraine, Between 1903 and 1928.

16.30-17.00 Coffee-break

17.00-18.30 IV Session

Batsheva Ida Goldman (Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel)
The Contribution of the An-Sky Expedition to the Study of the Hasidic Ritual Object:
Methodology and Materials
Rita Flomenboim (Levinsky College of Education, Israel)
The National School of Jewish Art Music: Joel Engel (1868-1927) and Mikhail Gnessin (1883-1957).

19 June

Mohovaya str., 25

10.00 – 12.00 I Session

Olga Minkina (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
Deputies in the First Jewish Committee 1802-1804. Historical Myths Revised
Maia Vitenberg (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
Crafty Figures (Jewish Land Ownership and Rent on the Eave of Adoption of the "Temporary Laws," May 3, 1882).
Anatoly Ivanov (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
Censuses (Self-Censuses) of the Jewish Students of Kiev, Moscow, and Odessa of 1909-1913 as a Historical Source.
Chris Monday (Dongseo University, S. Korea)
How Radical Jewish Students Rewrote "National" History: L.M. Klienbort (1875-1951)

12.00 -12.30. Coffee-break

12.30 – 14.00 II Session

Anna Lebet-Minakowska (National Museum Krakow, Poland)
20-th Century Galician Jewish Costume (based on the pieces of clothes from the National Museum in Cracow Textile Department's collection in the light of 20-th century painting and graphics).
Yaron Ben-Naeh (Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel)
Russians in Istanbul: Ottoman Jewish Ownership of Slaves
Arturo Marzano (University of Pisa, Italy)
The Role of East European Jewry in the Birth and Development of the Italian Zionism (1897 –1940)

14.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-17.00 III Session

Michael Krutikov (University of Michigan, USA)
From Hegel to Kant: Evolution of the Concept of Folk in Soviet Yiddish Scholarship
Elena Nosenko (Institute for Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Investigating Modern Russian Jewry: Results of the Fieldwork of 2006-2008.
Valery Dymshits (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
Museum of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society and Jewish Museums in the USSR in 1920s.
Alexander Ivanov (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)
“Soviet Jews” – Сollective-farmers and Artisans in Artistic Works by Solomon Yudovin, 1930s (based on materials of the exhibition “Jews in the Imperial Russia and in the USSR” in the State Ethnographic Museum in Leningrad).

17.00 -17.30. Coffee-break

17.30-18.30 Presentation of new books

V.E. Kelner “The Missionary of History”. Life and works of S.M. Dubnov
Catalogues of exhibitions “Photographic archive of An-sky’s expeditions”

18.30 Closing of the conference

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