June 21 at 3:00pm YIVO presents: The Hungarian Jewish Remnant, 1945-1948
Meet the Faculty and Refreshments at 3 pm. Seminar begins at 3:30 pm.
Presenter: Dr. Alice Freifeld, Associate Professor in History, University of Florida
Chair: Dr. Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University
Respondent: Dr. Laszlo Karsai, Professor of History at Jozsef Attila University in Szeged, Hungary.
Dr. Freifeld will focus on her current book project on Hungarian Jewry from 1945-1949. The author of "Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914" and the recipient of the Barbara Jelavich book prize in Slavic studies, Dr. Freifeld is the current president of the Hungarian Studies Association and has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Studies (USHMM), the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, ACLS-SSRC and Carnegie Mellon.
The Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies is given at YIVO and is named in honor of the historian and scholar Ruth Gay (1922-2006) and was made possible thanks to a major gift from the family of Ruth Gay.
Ticket Info: RSVP required: Email or call 212-294-6143.
July 12 at 3:00pm YIVO in partnership with ASF presents: Uncommon Voices, Everyday Lives: Jewish Experiences in Salonika Through the YIVO Archives
Presenter: Devin Naar Chair: Dr. Isaac Benmayor Introductory Remarks: Dr. Steven Bowman
Devin Naar, Historian of the Salonika Project at YIVO, is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University and is writing his dissertation on the Jewish Community of Salonika during the 19th and 20th centuries.The Salonika Project under which the Archive of the Jewish Community of Salonika at YIVO was organized, microfilmed and digitized, was supported by the Maurice Amado Foundation and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Isaac Benmayor was born and raised in Thessaloniki and holds a Ph.d. in Modern Greek Linguistics from Oxford University. Benmayor is a past president of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece and has worked on a number of publications on the Holocaust in Greece.
Steven Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and a historian of Greek Jewry.
Ticket Info: RSVP required: Email or call 212-294-6143.
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