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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
"Different but the Same, or the Same but Different?"
The Re-making of Public Memory of the Second World War in Post-Soviet Lviv
By Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
4:00 - 6:00pm
For more information please contact Lisbeth Tarlow: 617-495-2124, tarlow@fas.harvard.edu
Organized by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Part of the "Jews and East European Cities" Series. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop, Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for European Studies, and the Ukrainian Research Institute.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
David Grossman's Akedot of Avram, Ora, and Ishmael
By Dr. Yael Feldman, Abraham I. Katsh Chair of Hebrew Culture and Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at NYU
CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
4:00 - 5:30pm
Free and open to the public, no reservation required.
Supported by the Alan and Elizabeth Doft Lecture and Publication Fund.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Shtetl"
Yiddish jokes and Jewish humor
By Jordan Finkin, Weinstock Visiting Lecturer on Jewish Studies and Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew, University of Oxford
Lamont Library, Forum Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
4:00pm
For more information, call Elizabeth Vernon, Judaica Division: 617-495-2985
A project of the Jacob and Frieda Pat Endowment in the Harvard College Library. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

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THURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011
Tablet and Vox Tablet: Chiseling a New Media Outlet for a New Jewish Era
By Alana Newhouse, Editor-In-Chief for Tablet Magazine; and Sara Ivry, Host of Vox Tablet
Mahindra Humanities Center/Barker Center, Kresge Foundation Room (Room 114), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
5:15pm
Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Mahindra Humanities Center. Part of the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar Program and the Series on American Jewish Letters. Supported by the Joseph Engel Fund.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6
A Reading of David Grossman's book To The End of the Land
Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon; featuring Jeremiah Kissel, Elliot Norton Award and IRNE Award winner; and Shelia Stasack
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall (in Harvard Yard), Cambridge
7:00 - 9:00pm
Free and open to the public, no reservation required.
Co-produced by Israeli Stage. Supported by Alan and Elizabeth Doft Lecture and Publication Fund.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011
"In the Shadow of the Shtetls in Soviet Podolia: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe"
By Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History; Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Chair in Jewish Studies; Director, Robert A. and Andra S., Borns Jewish Studies Program
CGIS South, Davis Center Seminar Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St., 3rd Floor, Cambridge
12:15 - 2:00pm
For more information please contact Lisbeth Tarlow: 617-495-2124, tarlow@fas.harvard.edu
Organized by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Part of the "Jews and East European Cities" Series. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop, Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for European Studies; and the Ukrainian Research Institute.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011
The Jews of Poland and Russia: Myths and Realities
By Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University
27 Kirkland Street, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Cambridge
4:15 - 6:00pm
Sponsored by Jews in Modern Europe Study Group and the Center for European Studies. Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Leon I. Mirell Lecture Fund.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
The Trial and Execution of Joseph Süss Oppenhimer ("Jud Süss"), 1737-1738: A Polyphonic History
By Yair Mintzker, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton
CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
5:00 - 6:30pm
Lecture will be followed by a reception. Refreshments will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern European History Workshop, The Center for Jewish Studies and the Modern Jewish Worlds Graduate Student Workshop.

 

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
An Evening with David Grossman
Science Center, Hall C, First Floor, One Oxford St., Cambridge
7:00 - 8:30pm
Free and open to the public, no reservation required.
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Supported in part by U.S. Department of Education Title VI Funds and the Consulate General of Israel to New England Boston, and by the Alan and Elizabeth Doft Lecture and Publication Fund.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Reshaping Collective Consciousness Towards Trauma: Hebrew and Chinese Narrative on Holocaust and Nanking Massacre
By Zhong Zhinqing, with discussant Ruth Wisse
2 Divinity Common Room, Cambridge
12:00pm
Center for Jewish Studies, co-sponsoring the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

 

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011
"From Culture to Culture: Nahum Glatzer, emigre Jewish scholar, disseminator of European philosophy, and architect of academic Jewish Studies"
Presentation of the Boston premiere of a recent documentary, entitled I am a Memory Come Alive: Nahum N. Glatzer and the transmission of German-Jewish Learning. Judith Wechsler, Tufts University and Independent Film Maker.
Lower Level room, Busch Hall, Harvard University
7-9:30 PM
A discussion with the film maker and a reception will follow the screening.
Sponsored by the Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe (CES), German Study Group (CES), Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History (CES), Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University Worship and Study Minyan at Harvard Hillel.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
The Yiddish Press in the 21st Century
By Gennady Estraikh, New York University and Itzik Gottesman, Yiddish Daily Forward
Harvard Faculty Club, Room 7, second floor, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge
5:30pm
Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Mahindra Humanities Center. A Series on American Jewish Letters as part of the Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar Program. Supported by the Joseph Engel Fund.

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Spring 2011 Starr Seminar Series.

 

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