Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry

Interdisciplinary in nature and broad in scope, the seminar features presentations by scholars and authors working at various intersections of Russian/Soviet/Eurasian Studies and Jewish Studies. Chaired by Maxim D. Shrayer.

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Jewish Émigré Writers in Search of Identity
Critical Citizenship and Civic Participation in 3 Generations of Russian Israelis
Chiune Sugihara and the Soviet Union: New Documents, New Perspectives
Russian-Jewish Literature: Reinventing Tradition Under Communism
“People of the Cossack Stock:" Ethnic Minorities and the War Against Ukraine
The Strugatskys and Beyond: The Secret Jewish Language of Soviet Era Science Fiction
Music in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–1942: Jewish Identity, Culture, and Community in Crisis
Echo of Babyn Yar: Commemoration and Memorialization of the Holocaust in Kyiv
The Holocaust Through the Eyes of Soviet Intelligence, 1939-1945
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
Rifka Angel in the Context of Her Times
Isaac Babel’s Diary as Ego-Document: An Experimental Approach
Bearing Witness at Nuremberg: The Soviet Contribution to the Record of the Holocaust
Messiah or "Simple Son"? Theodor Herzl and East European Jewry
New Literary Geography: Demarginalization of Contemporary Russophone Literature in Israel
Pogroms, Genocide, and Migration Crises in 1919-1921 Ukraine
The Wrong Family Holocaust Story: Survival of Polish Jews in Stalin's Russia
Russian Jews in Italy: 1905-1922
Brodsky Among Us: One Book, Two Cultures
Jewish Odessa: Trade, Community, and Culture in the Port City
A Half-Century of Jewish Emigration from the Former Soviet Union: Demographic Aspects
A Russian Immigrant: Translingual Pleasures and Literary Responses to COVID-19
The Marriage of Véra Slonim and Vladimir Nabokov as Jewish, Russian, and American History
In Battle for the German Mind: Evsei Shor, Rudolf Roeßler, and the Vita-Nova Publishing House
To Flee or Not to Flee? Soviet Jews Face the German Invasion
Russian Jews in the Turmoil of History: Three Ages of Stalinism
Alexander Goldenweiser, an American Anthropologist with Russian Jewish Roots
Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant
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