JHS Partners: Association of Moscow Jewish Studies Students

Third CIS Students Conference on Jewish Studies
Moscow, July 1 - 3, 1998

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On July 1-3, 1998 the Association of Moscow Jewish Studies Students held their Third Annual International Student Academic Conference. The speakers included some of the guests from the Project Judaica graduation at RSUH, a delegation of Hebrew University Russian speaking faculty, plus the students themselves. Workshops included:

Biblical Studies
Semitology
Jewish Thought
Jews and the Surrounding World
Non-Ashkenazic Communities
History of Eastern European Jewry
Holocaust
Literature, Arts and Music
Jews of the USSR: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

More than 100 students - undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students - from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Kirgizia, as well as Germany and Israel, made presentations.

Following the conference a Summer School on Jewish Studies took place at Mendeleevo, near Moscow (July 3-7, 1998). More than sixty students participated. Lecturers included:

Mordechai Altshuler (Hebrew University)
Israel Bartal (Hebrew University)
Michael Chlenov (Maimonides Academy, Moscow)
Zeev Elkin (Hebrew University)
Dmitry Elyashevich (St. Petersburg Jewish University)
Jonathan Frankel (Hebrew University)
Uri Gershovich (Hebrew University)
John Klier (University College London)
Zoya Kopelman (Hebrew University)
Leonid Matzikh (International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem)

Teachers and Lecturers

Zeev Elkin

Leonid Matsikh

Leonid Kogan

Students

Classes and Sessions

Summer School Class

Conference Session

Summer School Class