Past Events

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Italian government building with flags

Russian Jews in Italy: 1905-1922

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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

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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

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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.

Recording Available
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

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

Recording Available
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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In person

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
Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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