March 7 at 4:00pm Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and YUM present: Zionism on the Jewish Street: Urban Geography and Nationalism at the Turn of the 20th Century
This conference brings together leading historians of Zionism and modern Israel to explore the origins of cultural, religious and political Zionism as the movement emerged at the turn of the 20th century. It will explore many sides of early Jewish nationalism including the emergence of mass politics and new expressions of modern Jewish culture in the press, visual culture, architecture and the urban sphere.
Speakers include: Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University), Marsha Rozenblit (University of Maryland), Barbara Mann (Jewish Theological Seminary), Jenna Weissman Joselit (George Washington University), Jonathan Krasner (Hebrew Union College ? Jewish Institute of Religion), David Brenner (University of Houston), Joshua Karlip (Yeshiva University), Michael Berkowitz (University College, London), Jess Olson (Yeshiva University), Alexander Mishory (Open University of Israel, Rice University), Nina Spiegel (American University).
March 8 at 6:30pm CJH, LBI and YIVO present: Czernowitz in Jewish Memory
Co-sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum of New York, Consulate General of Romania and Ukrainian Institute of America
Czernowitz-"Vienna of the East"-is the site of two different powerful memories. To some, it was home to an assimilationist Austro-German Jewish culture; to others, it was a hub for the creation of modern Yiddish language and culture. A panel of historians and writers, including Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, the authors of a new volume entitled Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory;Susannah Heschel, scholar of modern Judaism, descendant of rabbinic families from the Czernowitz region; Norman Manea, Romanian-born writer and professor of European studies and culture; Boris Sandler, editor of the Yiddish Forverts and author and producer of a new documentary film Glimpses of Yiddish Czernowitz; and Atina Grossmann, scholar of modern German and European history, discussed and debated the reconciliation of these two different memories within the broader history of Jewish emancipation, assimilation and resistance in Eastern Europe.
Ticket Info: $15 general, $10 CJH, LBI, YIVO members
March 10 at 6:30pm CJH and YUM present: Genocide and the "Responsibility to Protect": The Evolution of International Law
RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT ("RtoP" or "R2P") is a new international political/legal norm developed to address the international community's failure to prevent and stop genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. A distinguished panel will explore the evolution of the developing norm, its current status in law and politics, and its greatest challenges going forward.
Panelists include: Roberta Cohen, Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution and Senior Adviser to the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement Doris Mpoumou, Director of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (invited) Sheri Rosenberg, Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Human Rights and Genocide Clinic and Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations Nicole Deller, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Moderator
A tour of the related exhibition, "Letters of Conscience: Raphael Lemkin and the Quest to End Genocide," will precede the program at 6:00 pm.
Sponsored by CJH, Yeshiva University Museum, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Cardozo Law School
Ticket Info: $15 general, $12 CJH, YUM members, YU faculty, staff, $5 students
Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies
March 23 at 6:00pm YIVO presents: Jewish Tavernkeepers and Liquor Traders in 19th Century Poland
Presenter: Glenn Dynner, Professor of Judaic Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
Moderator and Respondent: Moshe Rosman, Professor of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University, Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies, Yale University
By the end of the 18th century, Jews comprised the vast majority of tavernkeepers in Poland-Lithuania, leasing taverns and distilleries from the nobility. According to most historians, Polish Jews were driven out of the liquor trade over the course of the next century. Yet 19th century archival sources, including an invaluable collection of personal petitions (kvitlakh) sent to R. Eliyahu Guttmacher, housed in the YIVO Archives, provide evidence of the continued existence of Polish Jewish liquor traders, both open and surreptitious. The involvement of Jews in this sector of the Polish economy during this later period points to the fact that traces of the feudal economic system survived amidst a period of rapid industrialization and modernization. While Jewish tavernkeeping was vigorously opposed by powerful groups in Polish society, one crucial group continued to provide them with cover: the very local Christians they were accused of victimizing. This talk analyzes the robust but technically illegal Polish Jewish liquor trade during the nineteenth century.
Ticket Info: Free; advance registration required, RSVP via email or by phone: 212-294-6143
CJH Graduate Seminar Program
March 24 at 4:30pm CJH presents: From Black Market to Dinner Table: International Clandestine Aid and Its Hungarian Jewish Recipients in the 1950s
Zachary Levine, Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellow at CJH, 2009; Ph.D. Candidate at NYU presenting.
Dr. Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, responding Dr. Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, conducting
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP: via email or call 212-294-8325
Lecture
March 25 at 6:30pm YUM, CJH, UPenn and CPL present: Spinoza's Jewish Children: Profiles in Jewish Secularism of the Modern Era
Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University)
Ticket Info: Free, reservations suggested,
RSVP via email or call 212-294-8330 x 8816
Choseed Memorial Lecture
April 1 at 3:00pm YIVO presents: Marginal and Marginalized: Tales of the Destitute, Orphaned, and Disabled in Jewish Eastern Europe
Dr. Natan Meir, Portland State University. How do we reconstruct the history of those who were unable to write their own stories? This lecture explores the lives and experiences of Jews at the margins of society-including poor orphans and widows and the physically and mentally disabled-in 19th- and early 20th-century Eastern Europe. This "history from the margins" attempts to move us towards a richer and fuller portrait of East European Jewish society than ever before.
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP online or call 917-606-8290
Dora and Mayer Tendler Memorial Lecture
April 13 at 3:00pm YIVO presents: Establishing Beys Ya'akov: Legitimizing Girls Religious Education
Agnieszka Oleszak, University College, London.
Beys Ya'akov was a network of religious schools for girls in prewar Poland first established by Sarah Schenirer in 1917. In 1919, Beys Ya'akov was taken over by Agudas Israel, which proved to be a turning point in the school’s development. Its rapid growth made it a popular and successful educational institution among Orthodox Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. This presentation aims to reconstruct the early history of Beys Ya'akov and to illustrate the process of legitimizing the idea of institutionalized religious education for Jewish girls.
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP online or call 917-606-8290
CJH Graduate Seminar Program
April 19 at 3:00pm CJH presents: Gentleman's Agreement' and 'Crossfire': Anti-Semitism at the Movies
Rachel Gordan, Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellow at CJH, 2009; Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard presenting
Dr. Tisa Wenger, Assistant Professor of American Religious History, Yale University, responding
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP: via email or call 212-294-8325
Discussion
April 20 at 6:30pm CJH presents: Genocide and Activism: Lemkin's Legacy for the 21st Century
Featuring Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, and others.
Ticket Info: $15 general, $12 CH members, $5 students
CJH Graduate Seminar Program
May 4 at 3:00pm CJH presents: American Jews, Medicine, and the Politics of Displaced Persons after World War II
Rebecca Cutler, Morris and Alma Schapiro Fellow at CJH 2009, presenting
Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union, responding
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP: via email or call 212-294-8325
Hort Memorial Lecture
May 13 at 3:00pm YIVO presents: Remembering (in) the Mother Tongue: The Role of Yiddish in Israeli Autobiographical Expressions
Hanna Pressman, New York University.
How does Yiddish both enable and complicate the remembrance of things past? Surveying Hebrew autobiographical writing of the mid- to-late 20th century, this talk highlights various authors' contrasting motivations for weaving mame-loshn into their confessional tales. Like the religious discourse dominating these works, Yiddish is a key component to the writers' challenge to the normative model advocated by secular Hebrew culture. The literary self-portraits discussed in this talk, viewed through the critical lenses of language and gender, offer a fascinating alternative vision of modern Israeli selfhood.
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP online or call 917-606-8290
Podbrodz Memorial Lecture
June 2 at 3:00pm YIVO presents: Empire of Charity: American Jews and the Rebuilding of Polish Lithuania, 1919-1939
Rebecca Kobrin, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
Between 1919 and 1939, Jewish émigrés in the United States sent millions of dollars to rebuild their former homes scattered throughout Polish Lithuania. This talk focuses on the role Jewish émigrés and their philanthropy played in reshaping political, social, and economic life in Brisk and Vilna, the two historic intellectual centers of Lithuanian Jewry. While the stated goal of Jewish émigré generosity was to relieve economic distress, it often caused a reshaping of Jews' understanding of their place in the new nation-states of Eastern Europe during this era of political and economic upheaval.
Ticket Info: Free, RSVP online or call 917-606-8290
Conference
June 15 at 09:00am AJHS presents: 2010 Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History
This biennial conference, organized by the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, will examine the notion of American Jewish "exceptionalism," or uniqueness, which has shaped conceptions of American Jewish history from its beginning. More than 40 papers will be given by a range of prominent academics from around the U.S., Canada, and Israel.
June 16 at 09:00am AJHS presents: 2010 Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History
This biennial conference, organized by the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, will examine the notion of American Jewish "exceptionalism," or uniqueness, which has shaped conceptions of American Jewish history from its beginning. More than 40 papers will be given by a range of prominent academics from around the U.S., Canada, and Israel.
June 17 at 09:00am AJHS presents: 2010 Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History
This biennial conference, organized by the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, will examine the notion of American Jewish "exceptionalism," or uniqueness, which has shaped conceptions of American Jewish history from its beginning. More than 40 papers will be given by a range of prominent academics from around the U.S., Canada, and Israel.
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