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Winter-Spring 2012 Program Summary
| Below is a list of all upcoming lectures, seminars, film screenings, and other events for Winter-Spring 2012. For more information about each event including ticket reservation, click on the event title or on the corresponding button in the list at right. For recordings of past events please go to the Program Archives section. |
| THURSDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2012 | 3PM |
| JOSEPH KREMEN MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater Miryem-Khaye Seigel |
| TUESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2012 | 7PM |
| LECTURE |
| The Jewish Antifascist Committee and Its Foreign Delegation Gennady Estraikh |
| THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2012 | 12PM |
| PODBRODZ MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| Belarus in Berlin/Berlin in Belarus: Moyshe Kulbak’s Raysn and Meshiekh ben-Efrayim Marc Caplan |
| THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2012 | 7PM |
| JEWISH MUSIC FORUM LECTURE/CONCERT |
| The St. Petersburg School: The Music of Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930) Co-sponsored by the American Society for Jewish Music Paula Eisenstein Baker, Sidney Krum Young Artists |
| MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2012 | 3PM |
| ROSE AND ISIDORE DRENCH MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| The Scorched Melting Pot: Yiddish Culture and American Communism After World War II Jennifer Young |
| THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2012 | 7PM |
| LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING |
| Children and War Debórah Dwork, Cathy A. Frierson |
| THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2012 | 3PM |
| PROF. BERNARD CHOSEED MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| S. An-sky: Writing the History of Jews in the First World War Polly Zavadivker |
| THURSDAY 1 MARCH 2012 | 7PM |
| SYMPOSIUM & BOOK SIGNING |
| Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Europe Jane Burbank, Sam Kassow, Benjamin Nathans, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan Meir, Israel Bartal |
| FRIDAY 2 MARCH 2012 | 1PM |
| LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING |
| A City Within a City Emanuel Berman |
| MONDAY 5 MARCH 2012 | 3PM |
| VIVIAN LEFSKY HORT MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| The Wise Men of Chelm: Eastern European Jewry’s Favorite Folk Tradition and Its Origins Ruth von Bernuth |
| THURSDAY 8 MARCH 2012 | 7PM |
| LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING |
| The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky Joshua Rubenstein |
| FRIDAY 16 MARCH 2012 | 12:30PM |
| MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| As German is to the Germans: The Yiddishism of Khayim Zhitlovski (1865-1943) Joshua Price |
| THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2012 | 12:30PM |
| ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION |
| Psychoanalysts on the Left and the Far Left Jonathan Brent, Arnold Richards, and other scholars to be announced |
| MONDAY 26 MARCH 2012 | 3PM |
| DINA ABRAMOWICZ EMERGING SCHOLAR LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| YIVO’s Aspirantur and the Training of Jewish Scholars in Eastern Europe on the Eve of the Holocaust Natalia Aleksiun |
| MONDAY 2 APRIL 2012 | 7PM |
| LECTURE |
| The Devil in Politics Leonidas Donskis |
| THURSDAY APRIL 5 2012 | 3PM |
| MARIA SALIT-GITELSON TELL MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| The Transnational Vilna Troupe(s): A New Look at a Yiddish Theater Landmark Debra Caplan |
| THURSDAY 19 APRIL 2012 | 7PM |
| LECTURE |
| From the YIVO Archives: The Unknown Memoir of Tuvia Bielski Barbara Harshav, Robert Bielski, and a scholar to be announced |
| TUESDAY 24 APRIL 2012 | 7PM |
| FILM SCREENING |
| Yiddish Writers Tell their Stories: Yosl Birshteyn Co-sponsored by the Yiddish Forward Boris Sandler |
| MONDAY 30 APRIL 2012 | 3PM |
| VLADIMIR AND PEARL HEIFETZ MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| Sholem Aleichem, Joseph Achron, and the Music of Stempenyu Joshua Walden |
| SUNDAY 6 MAY – MONDAY 7 MAY 2012 |
| CONFERENCE |
| Jews and the Left Paul Berman, Jonathan Brent, Mitchell Cohen, Barbara Engel, Lars Fischer, Judith Friedlander, Norman Geras, Deborah Hertz, Jack Jacobs, Marion Kaplan, Jonathan Karp, Alice Kessler-Harris, Harvey Klehr, Ezra Mendelsohn, Tony Michels, Yoav Peled, Antony Polonsky, Moishe Postone, Riv-Ellen Prell, Ronald Radosh, Anita Shapira, Marci Shore, Daniel Soyer, Michael Walzer, Ronald Zweig |
| THURSDAY 10 MAY 2012 | 7PM |
| CONCERT |
| Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series: Spring Concert 2012 Various |
| MONDAY 14 MAY 2012 | 3PM |
| SAMUEL AND FLORA WEISS RESEARCH LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| Creation of a Survivor Voice: Radio and Early Holocaust Narratives Rachel Deblinger |
| TUESDAY 22 MAY | 7PM |
| FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION |
| The Dybbuk Scholar to be announced |
| TUESDAY 5 JUNE 2012 | 3PM |
| NATALIE AND MENDEL RACOLIN MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES |
| Destructive Creators: Jewish Immigrant Bankers, the Business of Mass Migration and the Failures that Reshaped American Finance, 1914 Rebecca Kobrin |