December Events at YIVO This Theatre is a Battlefield: How Antifascist & Zionist Performance Forged a New Jewish-American Identity, 1933-1948. THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER 2010 | 3PM ROSE AND ISIDORE DRENCH MEMORIAL LECTURE MAX WEINREICH CENTER Garrett Eisler, Doctoral Candidate, City University of New York This talk focuses on some of the key stage and screen artists who rallied American support for the Jews of Europe and Palestine in the 1940s. Through these struggles, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Ben Hecht, and Kurt Weill consistently stood at the vanguard of a Jewish-American "Cultural Front."
Admission: Free RSVP: www.yivo.org/reservations Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shloyme Mikhoels Memorial on the 120th Anniversary of his Birth SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER 2010 | 2:00PM SYMPOSIUM MAX WEINREICH CENTER On the 120th anniversary of his birth, famed Soviet Yiddish actor and director Shloyme Mikhoels will be discussed by Prof. Jeffrey Veidlinger, an expert on Soviet Yiddish theater; Prof. Gennady Estraikh, a specialist in Soviet Jewish history and culture; and Joshua Rubenstein, an expert on the end of the Stalin era. Admission: Free RSVP: www.yivo.org/reservations Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in the Aftermath of the Schwarzbard Trial TUESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2010 | 6PM RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES 6:00pm Meet the faculty 6:30pm Seminar Admission: Free RSVP REQUIRED: 212.294.6143 | fmoh...@yivo.cjh.org Presenter: David Engel, Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University; Senior Fellow of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University. Moderator: Gennady Estraikh, Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, New York University The 1926 assassination in Paris of Ukrainian exile leader Symon Petliura by the Jewish anarchist Scholem Schwarzbard and the 1927 trial that resulted in Schwarzbard's acquittal strained relations between two of the most visible and vocal European minorities. During the 1920s Jewish and Ukrainian leaders had sought possibilities for cooperation and alliance in political settings from the Polish parliament to the European Minorities Congress. The seminar will explore how those leaders endeavored to maintain cooperation while simultaneously assuming conflicting positions regarding Schwarzbard's act. David Engel has edited twelve volumes in the series Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jews and has published eight books on various aspects of the history of modern east European Jewry, the Holocaust, Zionism, and Jewish historiography. His most recent books are Zionism: A Short History of a Big Idea (Longmans) and Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust (Stanford University Press). He is currently at work on an annotated collection of documents concerning the assassination of Symon Petliura in 1926 and the trial of the assassin, Scholem Schwarzbard, in 1927. Gennady Estraikh is the author and editor of books and articles on Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union, including In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism (2005), Yiddish in the Cold War (2008) and David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism (2007). He is coeditor of the forthcoming volume Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art. Eistrakh's research on the links between Yiddish and Ukrainian intellectuals has appeared in Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation (ed. Makaryk and Tkacz, 2010). Inaugurated in 2008 thanks to a major gift from the family of Ruth Gay, the Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies takes place several times a year at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Established in honor of Ruth Gay (1922-2006), the noted American Jewish historian and writer, the seminar series is given by scholars who have used the resources of the YIVO Archives and who wish to share their research with the public. Admission: Free RSVP REQUIRED: 212.294.6143 | fmoh...@yivo.cjh.org Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
