Past Events

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Pogroms, Genocide, and Migration Crises in 1919-1921 Ukraine

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Jeffrey Veidlinger presents some of the latest research on the anti-Jewish violence that accompanied the Russian revolution and ensuing Civil War in Ukraine.

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Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger

Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

Irina Astashkevich
Irina Astashkevich

Visiting Research Associate, Tauber Institute for the Study of East European Jewry, Brandeis University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

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New Literary Geography: Demarginalization of Contemporary Russophone Literature in Israel

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In the world where globalism and cultural neonativism converge, literature reveals new possibilities of expression.

Recording Available
Roman Katsman
Roman Katsman

Professor of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

Theodor Herzl observing the Rhine from the balcony of Hotel Les Trois Rois

Messiah or "Simple Son"? Theodor Herzl and East European Jewry

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This talk employs Theodor Herzl’s relationship with eastern European Jewry as a case study of the social construction of charisma and the legitimization of leadership.

Recording Available
Derek Penslar
Derek Penslar

Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History; University of Toronto; Stanley Lewis Visiting Professor of Israel Studies, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center