Monday November 17
Location: NYU, Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life (Kimmel Center), 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY
1:00 P.M. Roundtable: Research Resources
Room 802, NYU Kimmel Center
Chair: Kenneth Alper,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
The Blavatnik Archive Video Project: Interviews with World War II Jewish Veterans of the Red Army
Julie Chervinsky
Director, and Leonid Reines, Senior Interviewer, Blavatnik Archive Foundation, New York, NY, United States
New Archival Acquisitions for the Study of the History of Jews in the Soviet Union
Vadim Altskan
Program Coordinator, International Archival Program Division, CAHS, USHMM
Photography as Evidence
Caroline Waddell
Photo Reference Coordinator, Photographic Reference Collection, Collections Division, USHMM
Film as Evidence
Raye Farr
Director, Film and Video, Collections Division, USHMM
2:30 P.M. Panel IV: Memory and Representation: Literature, Press, and Textbooks
Room 802, NYU Kimmel Center
Chair: Gennady Estraikh,
Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, NYU, New York, NY, United States
Soviet and Jewish War and Remembrance: Neglected Literary Works in Russian and Yiddish Written and Published in the 1940s
Harriet Murav
Professor and Head, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
The Image of the Jewish Hero in the Soviet Yiddish Press During World War II
Arkadi Zeltser
Editor, Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The Case of Russia: Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encounter the Holocaust on the Ground, 1944–45
Mordechai Altschuler
Professor Emeritus of the Former Soviet Union and East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Foreshadowing the Holocaust: Boris Slutsky’s Jewish Poetic Cycles of 1940
Marat Grinberg
Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College, Portland, OR, United States
4:15 P.M. Coffee Break
4:30 P.M. Panel V: Treatment of The Holocaust in Post-Communist States: Controversies and Interpretations, 1944 to Present
Room 802, NYU Kimmel Center
Chair: David Engel,
Maurice R. and Corrine P. Greenberg Chair of Holocaust Studies, NYU, New York, NY, United States
The Holocaust and Collaboration in Post-Soviet Russian History Textbooks
Ksenia L. Polouektova
Doctoral candidate in History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Public Debates in Ukraine over the Holocaust
John-Paul Himka
Professor of History, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Memories of Destruction: Soviet Icons, Nationalist Mythology, and the Genocide of the Jews as Warring Narratives in Lithuania
Saulius Suziedelis
Professor of History, Millersville University, PA, United States
6:00 P.M. Concluding Roundtable
Room 802, NYU Kimmel Center
Chair: Paul A. Shapiro
Participants: Oleg Budnitskii, Zvu Gitelman, Harriet Murav, Timothy Snyders
7:00 P.M. Conference Concludes
