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The Legacy of the Russian
Jewish Diaspora “Russian Jewish Culture Continuity”, April 8-9, 2010 Wednesday,
April 7 6 pm Guided walk through Bath Thursday, April 8 Room 1WN 3.11 9 am Opening Peter Wagstaff (Bath) 9.15 Introduction Cultural Continuity in
the Diaspora—Project Perspectives François Guesnet
(London) 9.45 Panel I: Cultural repositories Efim Melamed (Kiev): “Immortalizing the Crime in History…” – The Activities of the “Ostjüdisches Historisches Archiv” (Kiev—Berlin—Paris, 1920–1930) Leonid Katsis (Moscow): The Problem of the Complete Jabotinsky – Unknown and Pseudonym Works 11.00 Coffee break 11.15 Panel II: Intermediaries in Russian Jewish Paris Nadia Malinovich (Paris): Intermediaries Between 'Immigrant' and 'Native' Jews in Paris in the 1920s Albert Baumgarten (Bar Ilan University): Elias Bickerman – St. Petersburg–Berlin–Paris–New York. An Ancient Historian as Cultural Intermediary Jörg Schulte (Bath/London): Nachum Slouschz (Odessa—Jerusalem—Paris) and his Contribution to the Hebrew Renaissance 1 pm Lunch break 2.00 Panel III – Inventing the Hebrew / Jewish
European Boris Czerny (Paris): French Jews and Russian Jews – A long period of misunderstanding? Glenda Abramson (Oxford): The European “New Jew” Marianna Prigozhina (Berlin): Russian-Jewish Writers and Jewish Ethnography –The Contribution of H.N. Bialik’s Project „Reshumot“ (Odessa—Berlin—Tel Aviv 1917-1924) to Israeli Ethnography 3.30 pm Coffee break 4.00 Panel IV: Pannel : Ballet & Theatre Susanne Marten-Finnis (Portsmouth): The Firebird: Fairytale – Ballet – Review, and Russia’s Contribution to European Modernism Elena Tartakovsky (Jerusalem): Russian Jewish cultural continuity in the theatre—Two myths about the beginnings of Habima 7
pm Conference dinner in Bath Friday,
April 9 Room 1WN 3.11 9.30 Panel V: Russian Jewish Berlin – New Perspectives Olaf Terpitz (Leipzig): An Enclave in Time. Russian-Jewish Berlin Revisited Hamutal Bar-Yosef (Jerusalem): From Kovno to Berlin and Bonn and Back. Lea Goldberg 1929-1935 10.45 Coffee break 11
am Panel VI: Political and Social Answers to Russian Jewish Emigration
–Chair: Susanne Marten-Finnis (Portsmouth) Alexander
Ivanov (St Petersburg): From a Russian-Jewish Philanthropic Organization to
the “Glorious Institution of World Jewry” – The Impact of the ORT
Legacy on Jewish Culture in Europe, USA, and Israel (1920s-1960s) Viktor Kel’ner (St Petersburg): Simon Dubnov and Problems of the Jewish Emigration after 1917 Kamil
Kijek (Tel Aviv/Wroclaw): Russian
Jewish Politics Confronting Modern Poland. Socialization and Political
Consciousness of Interwar Polish Jewry 12.45 Lunch break 1.30
Panel VII: Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew Influences in Jewish Literature
– Chair: Peter Wagstaff (Bath) Beata
Biro-Nink (Budapest): Old
Wine in New Wineskins? - Biblical Allusions and Animal Motifs Turned into
Modernist Yiddish Literary Images Britta Korkowsky (Göttingen): Allusions to the Hebrew Bible in Russian-Jewish Émigré Literature – A Case Study 2.30 Concluding discussion The Call for Papers can be
found here, the programme flyer can be downloaded here. Please contact Dr Jörg Schulte for further information.
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