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The Legacy of the Russian Jewish Diaspora
Concluding Conference of the Research Network

“Russian Jewish Culture Continuity”, April 8-9, 2010
 Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies

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 
Chair: François Guesnet (London)

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  
Chair: Claire Zalc (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          
Chair: Jörg Schulte (Bath/London)

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  
Chair: Peter Wagstaff (Bath)

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
Chair: Glenda Abramson (Oxford)

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
Chair: Peter Wagstaff – Jörg Schulte – François Guesnet

 

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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