First CIS Students Conference on Jewish Studies
Moscow, July 4 - 7, 1996
PROGRAM
July 4
Greetings by:
Dr. Rashid Kaplanov - President of "Sefer" Center
Mr. Ralph Goldman - Honorable Vice-President, AJJDC
Mr. Shammai Golan - Counselor Cultural Affairs, Embassy of the State
of Israel
Prof. Nataliya Basovskaya - Vice Rector, Russian State University
for Humanities
Mrs.Alla Levi - Head of the FSU Department of Jewish Agency for
Israel
Dr.Leonid Matsikh - International Center for University Teaching
of Jewish Civilization
Mrs. Zhenya Mikhaleva - Moscow Hillel Director
Mr.Motya Chlenov - Conference committee
Lectures by:
Professor Eugene Weiner (Haifa) Jewish attitudes towards the
Land of Israel
Professor John Klier (London) Russian Jewish history as the
Terra incognita
Dr. Leonid Matzikh (Jerusalem) Messiah's image in midrash literature
Professor David Roskies (New York) Yiddish storytelling and the
politic of rescue
Dr. Mikhail Chlenov (Moscow) Identity trends in non-Ashkenazic
Jewish communities of the former USSR
July 5
Victoria Khiterer (Kiev) Hasidic dynasty of Tversky tzadikim
(*)
Matthew Plen (London) Ideological conflict between Hasidism and
Haskalah
Sergey Goryainov (Rostov-Don) Jewish question and Russian
liberalism. Psychological aspect.
Sergey Briman (Kharkov) Jewish question in the I-st State
Duma
Nataliya Peshkova (Tyumen') Law status of the Siberian Jews
in the beginning of XX century
Vladimir Pan'kov (Tula) Zionists idea and religious concept
of Rabbi A.Kook
Lev Krichevsky(Moscow) Jews in Soviet secret police, CheKa
- GPU. 1920's - 1930's.
Elina Shkolnikova (Moscow) Jewish shtetl in the Soviet Union,
1930's. (*)
Anna Simonova (Moscow) Zionists activities in Siberia, 1917-1919
Neryus Ulchinas(Vilnius) Lithuanian press on the Jews during
the W.W.II
Semyon Charny(Moscow) The reaction of Soviet authority and Soviet
Jews on Bernard Mark's book "The rise in Warsaw ghetto" (*)
Motya Chlenov (Moscow) Jewish samizdat activities in 1970's
(*)
Rebecca Golbert (Oxford) The problems of studying of Post-Soviet
Jewish identity(*)
Anna Dorman (Ekaterinburg) Emigration factors, on the example
of Ekaterinburg Jewish population(*)
Alexey Kornilov (Moscow) Jews in Arab khalifate (VII - X centuries)
Daniel Summerfield (London University) "Falasha"-
Jews from Abissinia
Tatyana Velichko (Simferopol) Archeological excavation in
Chufut-Kale, the last 30 years
Artem Fedorchuk (Moscow) 19th century discussion on Karaites
origin in Crimea(*)
Anya Shternsis (Moscow) Soviet ideology and Yiddish folklore
in USSR
Sean Martin (Ohio) The ethnic identity of Jews in interwar Krakow
(*)
Dmitry Shulman (Donetsk) Image of the Jews in Ukrainian literature
of XIX - XX
Vera Tarasova (Ekaterinburg) Babel's transformation of Sholem
Aleichem's novel "Wondering stars" (*)
Irina Bistritskaya (Kishinev) The creativity of the Jewish-Bessarabian
poet Hertz Rivkin (Gaysiner)
Svetlana Papernaya (Minsk) Izya Kharik, Zelik Akselrod: poetry
and fate
Alexey Lyavdansky (Moscow) Methodological approach
to biblical retoric
Igor Turov (Kiev) The idea of free will in Amoraic texts
Rebecca Wilson (London) Jewish poetry in Cairo Genizah
Maria Endel (Moscow) Judah Halevi and Pierre Abelard: On the
paradox of perception of different believer (*)
Maria Kaspina (Moscow) Parables in Haggadah
Vladimir Baryushnikov (Moscow) Satan's image in the Bible
Nana Danilova (Tbilisi) History of gematric studies in Torah
and music
Elena Opanchuk (Moscow) Mythology of the world in Oriental cultures
Olesya Snezhinskaya (Rostov-on-Don) Judaism and Christianity:
dialogue and conflict
Leonid Kogan (St.Petersburg)On the plural form of Biblical
Hebrew word maym
Anna Solntseva (Moscow) Verbal forms in the Book of Joshua (*)
Katya Rempel (Moscow) Linguistical analysis of proverbs in modern
Hebrew.
Stas Shirokov (Moscow) Phonology of modern Hebrew in diakhronical
aspect.
Ilya Zhivotovsky (Moscow) Comparative analysis of vowel system
in Arabic and Hebrew.