Past Events

Event Format
Josef Brodsky reclining in front of a blackboard

Brodsky Among Us: One Book, Two Cultures

to
In person

Ellendea Proffer Teasley offers much previously unknown material about the great poet’s life in Leningrad, his leaving Russia and his career in the New World.

Recording Available
Ellendea Proffer Teasley
Ellendea Proffer Teasley

Author; Co-founder, Ardis Publishers and Russian Literature Triquarterly

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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

Italian government building with flags

Russian Jews in Italy: 1905-1922

to
In person

Russian Jews made a fascinating contribution to the political life of Italy, to its culture, literature and the arts during a turbulent period of history.

Recording Available
Stefano Garzonio
Stefano Garzonio

Professor of Slavic Studies, Pisa University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews façade

The Wrong Family Holocaust Story: Survival of Polish Jews in Stalin's Russia

to
In person

Ellen G. Friedman’s presentation centers on the largely unknown story of Polish Jews who were saved from Hitler by Stalin.

Recording Available
Ellen G. Friedman
Ellen G. Friedman

Professor, The College of New Jersey

Joshua Rubenstein
Joshua Rubenstein

Associate Director, Major Gifts, Harvard Law School

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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

Black and white photo

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

to
In person

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

Recording Available
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

books on shelf

New Literary Geography: Demarginalization of Contemporary Russophone Literature in Israel

to
In person

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