Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar

Interdisciplinary in nature, the seminar will include presentations by scholars from both the humanities and social sciences whose academic interests relate to the study of Russian and East European Jewry from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.

Selected Wednesdays, 4:15-6:00
1730 Cambridge St, CGIS South,
3rd Floor, Room 354

Chair: Steven Zipperstein, 496-5684, szipperstein@aol.com

Coordinator: Lisbeth Tarlow, 495-3124, tarlow@fas.harvard.edu

Professor Steven J. Zipperstein will serve as the faculty coordinator of the working group. Professor Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University, where he is the Co-Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies. He is also a new Associate of the Davis Center. He received his Ph.D. in Russian and Jewish History from the University of California at Los Angeles. Zipperstein's first book, The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881 (1985), won the Smilen Prize and was named the outstanding book on Jewish history published that year. His second book, Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism (1993), won the National Jewish Book Award. He is also the author of Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (1999), and is currently writing a comprehensive history of Russian and East European Jewish history from the 18th century to the present. The program for the Working Group will include scholarly presentations and round-table discussions throughout the year.

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