Sunday November 16
Location: Center for Jewish History (CJH), 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
The Blavatnik Archive Foundation is proud to present the digital media exhibition Faces of the Great Patriotic War: Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army during World War II. The exhibition, which includes excerpts of interviews with veterans, photographs, and archival documents, is displayed in both CJH and New York University (NYU) and is open to attendees throughout the conference.
10:00 A.M. Welcome
Forchheimer Auditorium/Kumble Stage, CJH
Lawrence Schiffman,
Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Chair, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU, New York, United States
10:15 A.M. Opening Remarks
Zvi Gitelman,
Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Member, Academic Committee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
11:00 A.M. Panel I: The Holocaust: The Soviet Jewish Experience
Forchheimer Auditorium, Kumble Stage, CJH
Chair: Lawrence H. Schiffman
The Jedwabne Syndrome: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia’s Western Borderlands in the Summer of 1941
Alexander Victor Prusin
Associate Professor of History, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, United States
Holocaust and Revenge in Minsk, 1941–44: German and Soviet Policy, Jewish Responses
Timothy David Snyder
Professor of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Escape and Evacuation of East European Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941–45
Anna Shternshis
Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language and Literature, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ghettos on the German-Occupied Territory of the Russian Federation: A Brief History
Martin C. Dean
Applied Research Scholar, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, DC, United States
1:00 P.M. Break
2:30 P.M. Panel II: Fighting Back: Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army and Jewish Resistance
Forchheimer Auditorium, Kumble Stage, CJH
Chair: Suzanne Brown-Fleming,
Senior Program Officer, CAHS, USHMM
Why Did They Fight? Soviet Jewish Resolve to Fight in the Ranks of the Red Army, 1941
Kiril Feferman
Research Scholar, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Initial Red Army Responses to Jewish Partisan Women’s Wartime Activities
Kathren A. Brown
Assistant Professor of History, Utah Valley State College, Orem, United States
Soviet Jewish Officers’ Encounters with Germany, 1945
Oleg V. Budnitskii
Professor of History, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Red Army Soldiers and Memory of the Holocaust in the Postwar Shtetl
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Director of Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University–Bloomington, United States
4:15 P.M. Coffee Break
4:30 P.M. Panel III: Soviet Jewish Veterans Speak
Steinberg Great Hall, CJH
Chair: Zvi Gitelman,
Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Member, Academic Committee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Participants:
David Barsky,
Cleveland, OH
Alexandra Bocharova,
Philadelphia, PA
Boris Rabiner,
Brooklyn, New York
6:00 P.M. Reception and Welcoming Remarks
Steinberg Great Hall, CJH
Len Blavatnik,
Chairman, Access Industries
Paul A. Shapiro,
Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, and Member, Academic Advisory Board, CJH
