JSEE: Общая информация
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JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP IN EASTERN EUROPE
Vol. 1, No. 2, July 1997
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CONTENTS
- Calendar of Events:
academic events in the field of East European Jewish
studies for Summer and Fall 1997
- Research, Documentation and Publication Projects:
Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem -
projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- Publications:
new books on East European Jewish studies, calls for
papers
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
The calendar surveys academic events (conferences,
courses, institutional activities) in the field of
East European Jewish studies for Summer and Fall 1997.
Information is derived from: Mendele: Yiddish
literature and language electronic mailing list,
Jewish Studies On-Line electronic newsletter,
H-Russia electronic mailing list for study of Russian
history and culture and from a variety of other
sources. Requests for detailed information on the
events listed in the calendar should be directed
to the contact addresses provided.
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Past events
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SESSION OF THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL OF MOSCOW CENTER FOR
UNIVERSITY TEACHING OF JEWISH CIVILIZATION "SEFER":
FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR ACADEMIC JUDAICA IN THE FORMER
SOVIET UNION
Moscow, Russia
May 26, 1997
By: Viktoria Mochalova
The extended session of the Academic Council of Moscow
Center for university teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"
was held on May 26, 1997 in Moscow. Participants discussed
the prospects and priorities for the promotion of Jewish
studies in academic and educational institutions of the former
USSR. The following Academic Council members were present at
the session: Oleg Budnitsky, Ilya Dvorkin, Rashid Kaplanov,
Aleksandr Kryukov, Mark Kupovetsky, Leonid Matsikh, Alexandr
Militarev, Viktoriya Mochalova, Aleksandr Stepansky, Dmitry
Frolov, Nikolai Tsimbaev, Mikhail Chlenov, Dmitry Elyashevich,
Sofia Shchurovskaya. International Council members were
represented by Ralph Goldman, Diana Pinto, and Yonatan Porath.
The session was also attended by representatives of the
following organizations: AJJDC - Michael Shteiner, Eugene
Wiener; Project Judaica of the Russian State University for
the Humanities - Dorit Sallis, Matvey Chlenov; Touro College
in Moscow - Shlomo Gendelman; St. Petersburg Jewish
University - Aleksandr Kobrinsky; Moscow Jewish Genealogy
Society - Vladimir Paley; Jewish Heritage Society - Vassili
Shchedrin, Yohanan Petrovsky, Ivan Pichugin; Institute for
Asian and African Studies of the Moscow State University -
Almin Rabinovich; Taganrog State University - Yuri Zaretsky.
Major subjects under discussion included:
- Academic Frameworks: the current status of state and private
departments of Judaica studies in the FSU;
- Faculty: the status of Academic Judaic knowledge of the
current scholars, researchers and teachers in the FSU, the
ways of upgrading the faculty of Academic Judaica, current programs -
the yearly "Sefer" conference, regional academic conferences, mentoring
programs in Moscow, visits from international scholars, etc.;
- Students: the future for study of Academic Judaica and the ways of
making Academic Judaica study more attractive, taking degrees by
students form the FSU overseas, the yearly student academic conference,
future employment of the graduates, etc.;
- Curricula: the status of the academic curricula in the various Academic
Judaica programs, upgrading the level of study, development of academic
libraries;
- International Support and Consultations: the role of international
Judaica scholars and friends of "Sefer", overseas visits and study
opportunities;
- "Sefer" and the Community: the role of academics in the larger
community - synagogue and other boards, students activites, community
centers and other local projects including.
The discussion resulted in a memorandum "Future Directions for Academic
Judaica in the Former Soviet Union" which is in preparation now. It will
be included in one of the forthcoming JSEE issues.
For more information, please contact:
Moscow Center for university teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"
Address: Leninsky prospekt, 32-a -"B"-808
Moscow 117334 Russia
Tel.: 7-095-938-57-16
Fax: 7-095-938-00-70
E-mail: sefer@glas.apc.org
Future events
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YIDDISH CONFERENCE IN KIEV
Kiev, Ukraine
August 22 - 25, 1997
By: Leybl Botvinik
The "Second conference for Yiddish Creativity, Education and
Communication" will take place from the 22nd to the 25th of
August, 1997, in Kiev, Ukraine.
About 100 delegates, representing about 40 communities, are
expected to attend, as well as representatives of the Jewish
Agency and other Jewish organizations. This year's theme, as
decided upon by the organizing World Council for Yiddish Culture,
will be: "100 years of Zionism".
Following the conference the world famous Yiddish Folklorist,
Professor Dov Noy will conduct a Yiddish Folklore tour in the
Ukraine: "In the Footsteps of Khasidism". This will take place
from the 25th to the 27th of August, 1997.
For more information on this events, please contact:
World Council for Yiddish Culture
Address: Leivik House, 30 Dov Hoz St., POB 11676,
Tel Aviv, Israel.
Fax: 972-3-523-0520
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THE GAON OF VILNA BICENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION
Vilnius, Lithuania
September 10 - 15, 1997
By: European Council of Jewish Communities
The Gaon's gravesite in Vilnius is sacred to Jews throughout the
world. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death,
the Lithuanian Jewish Community is organising a large-scale program
of commemorative events including:
- memorial service at the gravesite and unveiling of memorial
stone near the site of the Gaon's home;
- scholarly conference at the Vilnius University;
- public ceremony at the Opera House with officials of the Lithuanian
government, the diplomatic corps and distinguished foreign guests
in attendance;
- exhibition "The Gaon of Vilnius" at the National M. Masvydas
Library;
- excursions to Keidainiai (where the Gaon was raised) and to Paneriai;
- excursions to Kaunas (The 9th Fort, former ghetto) and the Gaon's
ancestral homes.
Approximately 60 celebrated speakers from ten countries will be
attending the scholarly conference.
The commemorative programme is organised under the patronage of
Federico Mayor, Director General, UNESCO. An Honorary Committee
icludes: Andrew Baker (American Jewish Committee), Oded Ben-Hur
(Israeli Ambassador to the Baltic countries), Serge Cwajgenbaum
(European Jewish Congress), David Fishman (Jewish Theological
Seminary of America), Arthur Hertzberg (USA), Nicholas Lane
(American Jewish Committee), Dan Mariaschin (B'nai B'rith
International), Michael May (European Council of Jewish
Communities), George Rohr (USA).
For further information on the program, please contact:
Lithuanian Jewish Community
S. Alperavicius, Chairman
I. Lempertas, Program Coordinator
Address: Pylimo 4, Vilnius 2001 Lithuania
Fax: 370-2-227915
E-mail: root@lzb.vno.osf.lt
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FROM GENESIS TO EXODUS: REFLECTION OF BIBLE MOTIFS IN FOLK
TRADITIONS OF JEWS AND SLAVS
Moscow, Russia
September 29 - October 1, 1997
Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilisation
"Sefer" and the Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies of Russian
Academy of Sciences invite presentation proposals for the International
conference "From Genesis to Exodus: Reflection of Bible Motifs in Folk
Tradirions of Jews and Slavs". The conference will be held in Moscow
from September 29 to October 1, 1997. The organizers consider the coming
event as a continuation of the discussion started at the international
conference "The Creation of the World and the Beginning of Human
History in Apocryphic and Folklore Traditions (based on Slavonic and
Jewish texts)" hosted by "Sefer" in December 5 - 7, 1995 in Moscow.
The conference is devoted to the comparative study of Jewish and
Slavonic texts based on apocryphic and folklore interpretation of
Biblical events described in the books of Genesis and Exodus.
The objective is to analyze biblical subjects in different
genres (hexamerons, chronicles, apocryphes, folk legends,
midrash, agadot, the so-called "people Bibles" and so on).
The volume of conference proceedings is planned.
Deadline for the proposals is September 15, 1997.
Proposals and requests for more information should be directed to:
Moscow Center for university teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"
Address: Leninsky prospekt, 32-a -"B"-808
Moscow 117334 Russia
Tel.: 7-095-938-57-16
Fax: 7-095-938-00-70
E-mail: sefer@glas.apc.org
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
The section is devoted to research, documentation and
publication projects developed by Jewish scholarly
institutions and individuals in the field of Jewish
history and culture in Eastern Europe.
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THE CENTER FOR JEWISH ART, HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM:
PROJECTS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Past Projects
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A. Education
- Course on Documenting Jewish Art for Participants
from the former Soviet Union, Jerusalem, 1991
- Jewish Art Seminar, Jewish University,
St. Petersburg, 1992
- Course on Documenting Jewish Art for Participants
from the former Soviet Union, Jerusalem, 1994
- Jewish Art Seminar, Jewish University, St.
Petersburg, 1994 - Jewish Art Seminar, Jewish
University, St. Petersburg, 1996
B. Survey and Documentation expeditions carried out
by the Center for Jewish Art in Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union (according to country and date) -
[we are presently in different stages of researching
and computerizing the material which was documented
during these expeditions. This work is being
conducted in Jerusalem - CJA]
Yugoslavia
- Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajavo, Dubrovnik two
expeditions to survey and document synagogue
interiors and ritual objects, 1986 and 1987.
Hungary
- Budapest expedition to document Hebrew illuminated
manuscripts, 1986
- Budapest expedition to survey and document
synagogues and Jewish Museum, 1988
- Kiskunhalas survey and documentation of tombstones,
ritual objects and synagogues, 1990
Poland
- Southern Galicia expedition to survey synagogue
interiors and document ritual objects, 1990 - Krakow,
Wroclaw, Gniezno expedition to survey Hebrew
illuminated manuscripts, 1990
- Lublin region, Galicia and Warsaw expedition to
survey and document synagogue interiors and ritual
objects, 1991
- Krakow, Warsaw, Bialystok region, expedition to
survey and document synagogues and ritual objects,
1992
- Lodz region, Warsaw expedition to document ritual
objects, 1993
- Warsaw, Wroclaw, Krakow expedition to document
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, 1994
- Warsaw, Galicia expedition to document synagogue
decoration, 1995
- Krakow, Salecia, Bialystok region, Wroclaw
expedition to document synagogue decoration, 1997
Ukraine
- Crimea, Lvov and Kiev and surrounding towns
expedition to survey and document synagogues, ritual
objects, tombstones in shtetls and cities, 1991
- Kiev expedition to document ritual objects in the
Museum of Historical Treasures of the Ukraine, 1992
- Shtetls in Khmelnitski region in southern Podolia
expedition to survey and document synagogues and
cemeteries, 1992
- Busk, Brody in Galicia expedition to document 16th -
19th century tombstones and cemeteries, 1993
- Galicia and Bukovina, expedition to document
cemeteries, 1994
- Ukraine expedition to survey shtetls for synagogues
and cemeteries and documentation of cemeteries, 1996
- Ukraine ongoing expeditions to document synagogues
in conjunction with the Western Ukrainian Restoration
Authority, 1992 - to the present
Georgia
- Expedition to survey synagogues and ritual objects,
1992
Russia
- Moscow, St. Petersburg expedition to survey modern
Jewish art and ritual objects, 1989
- St. Petersburg expedition to survey Hebrew
illuminated manuscripts of the Firkovitch Collection,
the world's largest collection of Hebrew manuscripts,
in the State Public Library, 1991
- Moscow, St. Petersburg expedition to survey and
document synagogue interiors, ritual objects and
modern Jewish art, 1991
- St. Petersburg expedition to survey and document
modern Jewish art in the State Russian Museum and
private collections, 1992
- St. Petersburg expedition to survey and document
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the State Public
Library (Firkovitch Collection) and the Institute of
Oriental Studies, 1992
- St. Petersburg expedition to document ritual
objects and synagogue interiors, 1992
Uzbekistan
- Samarkand, Bukhara, Tashkent and surrounding
villages expedition to survey and document synagogues
and ritual objects, 1992
Lithuania
- Vilnius, Kaunas, and shtetls expedition to survey
synagogues and document ritual objects, 1993
Belorussia
- Grodno, Minsk, Vitebsk and shtetls expedition to
survey synagogues and document ritual objects, 1993
Moldova
- Expedition to survey synagogues and document ritual
objects, 1994
Caucasus Mountains
- Azerbaijan, Daghestan: Baku, Kuba, Derbent and
mountain villages expedition to survey synagogues and
document ritual objects, 1994
Czech Republic
- Prague expedition to survey and document ritual
objects in the Jewish Museum, March 1994 - Prague
expedition to survey ritual textiles in the Jewish
Museum, September 1994
- Expedition to survey synagogues and ritual objects
throughout the country, September 1994
- Prague expedition to survey and document ritual
objects in the Jewish Museum, 1995
Romania
- Expedition to survey synagogues and ritual objects,
1993
- Expedition to document synagogues and ritual
objects, 1996
Ongoing and Future Projects
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A. Education
- Teaching Jewish Values through Art, seminar for
Russian art teachers, summer 1997
- Grants for Graduate Students and PostDoctoral
Researchers from the former Soviet Union
- Jewish Art Seminar, Jewish University, St.
Petersburg, 1998
B. Survey and Documentation Expeditions
- Georgia, September 1997
- Azerbaijan, June 1997
- Romania, Summer 1997
- Ukraine, Summer 1997
Ongoing Research Projects
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- Synagogue Heritage Safeguard Project - documenting
endangered synagogues in Eastern Europe
- The 19th and 20th century Jewish Artists from
Ukraine and Russia
- Archives of Jewish Ethnography and Art
- Tombstones in Ukraine
- A Shtetl in Ukraine: Satanov
Publications
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Jewish Art, Volume 21, dedicated to the art of the
former Soviet Union, 1996
Jewish Art, Volume 24, Architecture and ritual
objects in Eastern Europe, 1998
The Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art, Vol. 4, Hebrew
illuminated manuscripts from the Kaufmann Collection
in the Hungarian Academy of Science in Budapest, 1990
Source:
cja@vms.huji.ac.il - the Center for Jewish Art,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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JEWISH FOLK MUSIC FROM THE VERNADSKY LIBRARY COLLECTION
Two articles are published under the same title.
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1. JEWISH FOLKLORE FROM UKRAINE
By: The Institute for Information Recording, Kiev, Ukraine
Posted by: Zachary Baker
The National Library of Ukraine stores the world's greatest Jewish
musical folklore collection recorded on Edison phonograph cylinders.
The collection contains more than 1000 cylinders with sound duration
from 2 to 7 minutes. This collection includes in fact all the records
made in the first half of the 20th century (1912 - 1947) on
the territories of Ukraine and Belarus in towns and boroughs with
traditionally numerous Jewish populations.
The collection was initiated by the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic
Society in Petersburg in 1911 - 1914. The idea of conducting the
folklore expeditions belonged to a well-known Jewish writer and
folklorist S.An-sky (1863 - 1920). Besides S.An-sky, other outstanding
representatives of Jewish culture participated in these expeditions in
different years: composer and music expert Joel Engel (1867 - 1927),
folklorist Zinovy Kisselgoff (1878 - 1939), artist Solomon Yudovin
(1892 - 1954) et al.
During 1912 - 1913 the expedition managed to visit and research
ethnographically Volyn and Podiliya, its participants were able to
record on the phonograph the enormous amount of various genres of
traditional music samples: wordless chants, instrumental plays, songs,
parts of synagogal liturgy.
The phonograph materials collection became one of the principal
Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Museum collections opened in Petersburg
in 1914.
In Soviet times the Cabinet of Musical Folklore of the Ethnographical
Section of the Institute of Jewish Culture in Kiev became the carrier
of the pre-Revolutionary folklorist traditions beginning from 1912.
At the Cabinet the individual phonogram archives were organized and
constantly enriched with materials of every new folklore expedition.
In 1930 the phonoarchives of the Petersburg Jewish Historical and
Ethnographic Museum were handed over to Kiev and they essentially
supplemented the collection of the Ethnographic Section of the
Institute of Jewish Culture. Later J.Engel's and Z.Kisselgoff's private
collections of phonocylinders were donated to the Institute.
For a long time the phonoarchives were not available for scholarly
research because it was not technically possible to transfer their
contents to another sound medium.
The efforts in rerecording the cylinders were initiated in November
1995 by Professor O.Onyshchenko, Director of the V.I.Vernadsky
National Library of Ukraine, and Professor V.Petrov, Director of the
Institute for Information Recording. The Institute for Information
Recording developed the original method of cylinders rerecording
which allowed it to take the sound by not destroying their physical
state. As a result, a CD has been prepared, including a selection of
41 items from the Vernadsky collection.
For more information, please contact:
The Institute for Information Recording in Kiev
E-mail: petrov@ipri.kiev.ua
Website: http://www.ipri.kiev.ua
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JEWISH MUSICAL COLLECTION IN THE VERNADSKY LIBRARY
Compiled by: JSEE
The collection of wax cylinders from the Vernadsky Academy of
Sciencies Library holdings includes items from the 1928-1929
Moshe Beregovsky' expeditions. Beregovsky (1892-1961) was a
selfless champion of the Jewish musical heritage, prominent
Jewish musicologist, editor of the five-volumed collection "The
Jewish Musical Folklore", professor of Kiev Conservatory. During
his folklore expeditions, he recordered remnants
of the Yiddish songs of the last inhabitants of what was once the
shtetlakh of the Pale of Settlement, as well as new melodies of
the Jewish "workers and peasants", voices of prominent figures
of the Jewish culture (f.e., that of Mikhoels, Mikhail Gnessin).
The cylinders were kept at the Institute of the Jewish
Proletarian Culture (1929 - 1934) and consequently at the Cabinet
of Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciencies.
As soon as in 1948 the Cabinet of Jewish Culture was shut down
and its staff, including the Director Ilya Spivak arrested, all
the Cabinet holdings were moved to a number of repositories of
the Academy of Sciences Library and afterwards hidden. Up till
1990s Ansky's and Kisselgoff's musical collection,
Beregovsky's cilinders together with the desciphered notes,
musical sheets and manuscripts were beyond scholarly access.
After the 1991 upheavals and not without a far-sighted decision
of Prof. Senchenko, a previous Vernadsky Library Director, the
collection was uncovered. All the Jewish items, including one
hundred thousand books, ten thousand manuscripts, about 1200 wax
cylinders, several thousands musical sheets were brought together
under the Orientalia (afterwards - Jewish library) Department of
the Vernadsky Library, headed by Dr. Irina Sergeeva. Dr. Ludmila
Sholokhova, a talented musicologist and bibliographer from the
Library staff, did her best to compile a catalogue of the
collection of wax cilinders and to pay scholarly tribute to the
efforts of Kisselgoff and Beregovsky in the field of preservation
of the Jewish musical heritage.
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POLISH JUDAICA ON MICROFILM
By: Norman Ross
Norman Ross Publishing Inc. has a program of microfilming
every East European Jewish newspaper that is not yet available
on film. Newspapers available in the National Library of Latvia
have been filmed already and those in the National Library
of Lithuania are in the process of filming. The program is about
to start filming Czech Judaica.
At the moment the program is also focused on Poland. The work is
about to start on the first group of titles ordered from the Warsaw
University Library (there are no microfilms available for these
titles):
- "Agudas Israel" w Polsce. Warszawa, 1929 - 1937.
- Hajnt. Warszawa, 1915 - 1918.
- Handelscajtung = Gazeta Handlowa. Warszawa, 1927.
- Iton Katan. Warszawa, 1927/1928 - 1929.
- Jidysze Turn un Sport-Cajtung. Lodz, 1930.
- Lodzer Handelscajtung. Lodz, 1927.
- Ojfn Literariszn Horyzont. Lodz, 1928.
The second group are in Polish and are already on film from the
University and therefore immediately available (through Norman Ross
Publishing Inc.):
- Gmina Wyznaniowa Zydowska w Warszawie, 1 reel
- Ilustrowana Republika, 125 reels
- Nowe Slowo. Organ Zydostwa Narodowego w Polsce, 6 reels
- Panorama, 5 reels
- Przeglad Codzienny, 4 reels
- Republika, 13 reels.
The catalog from the Jewish Historical Research Institute in Warsaw
has been analyzed and a list of the newspaper that we be will filmed
there is in preparation.
Fro more information, please contact:
Norman Ross Publishing Inc.
Address: 330 West 58th St.,
New York, NY 10019
Tel.: 1-212-765-8200
E-mail: nross@igc.apc.org
Website: http://www.nross.com
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PUBLICATIONS
New books announcements
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Steven Cassedy. To the other shore: The Russian Jewish intellectuals
who came to America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 197 pp.
By: Steven Cassedy
The book deals with the group of Russified and politicized Jewish
intellectuals who immigrated to the United States in the era of mass
immigration and came to occupy positions of leadership in the periodical
press and in the labor movement. The first section of the book treats
the process of assimilation in the old country. The emphasis in this
book - and this is what sets it apart from other books about Jewish
immigration to the United States - is the Russian element in the writings
and activities of the figures the author discusses.
The author: Steven Cassedy - Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature
at University of California, San Diego.
The book is now available in book stores, usually in the "Judaica" section.
For a review copy, please contact:
Mary Kate Maco, Princeton University Press
E-mail: mary_kate_maco@pupress.princeton.edu
Tel.: 1-609-258-5714
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Michael C. Steinlauf. Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the
Holocaust. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997. 189 + ix pp.
By: Michael Steinlauf
This book focuses on Polish witnessing of the Holocaust, an experience
that amounted, the author argues, to a mass psychic and moral trauma
unprecedented in history. The book begins with a summary of Polish-Jewish
relations up to and during the Holocaust. It then investigates issues
such as the postwar violence against Jewish survivors; the so-called
anti-Zionist campaign of 1968-70; and the appropriation of Holocaust
memory in the struggle between the Solidarity movement and the Polish
government. The struggle to integrate the image of the murdered Jew into
Polish national memory emerges as a crucial feature of postwar Polish
history and consciousness.
The author: Dr. Michael C. Steinlauf - Senior Research Fellow at YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research.
For orders or review copies, please contact:
Amy Rashap, Syracuse University Press
Address: 1600 Jamesville Avenue,
Syracuse, NY 13244-5160
E-mail: arashap@summon.syr.edu
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The Shoah in Lithuania. Yivo-Bleter (New Series). Volume 3.
Edited by David E. Fishman and Abraham Novershtern. YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research. New York, 1997
By: David Fishman
A list of articles:
THE FATE OF YIVO AT HISTORICAL TURNING POINT (1939 - 1941)
By Israel Lempert
DIARY OF VILNA GHETTO (FRAGMENT)
By Zelig Kalmanovitch
Prepared for publication by Shalom Luria
Yiddish translation by Avrom Novershtern)
AT THIS MOMENT: DR. TZEMACH FELDSHTEIN'S EDITORIALS IN THE
VILNA GHETTO (1942 - 1943)
Prepared for publication by David G. Roskies
HISTORY OF THE KOVNA GHETTO POLICE (SELECTIONS)
Preface by Esther Mayerovich-Shvartz
Prepared for publication by Dov Levin
OBSERVATIONS ON WEINREICH'S ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWISH STUDIES
By David E. Fishman
MAX WEINREICH - IN SEARCH OF A LIVING PAST
By David G. Roskies
MAX WEINREICH: STRUCTURAL LINGUIST AND HISTORIAN OF YIDDISH
Edward Stankiewicz
REMEMBERING DR. MAX WEINREICH
By Dina Abramowicz, Abraham Brumberg,
Eleanor Gordon-Mlotek, Gabriel Weinreich,
Beatrice Silverman-Weinreich, Joshua A.Fishman
YIDDISH FROM A LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
By Max Weinrich
SUPPLEMENT TO MAX WEINREICH'S BIBLIOGRAPHY
By Eleanor Gordon-Mlotek and Shmuel Goldenberg
THE RETURNED PORTION OF THE VILNA YIVO'S ARCHIVE
By Marek Web and Eleanor Gordon-Mlotek
For more information, please contact:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
E-mail: yivo@metgate.metro.org
Website: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/yivo/
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Call for papers
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ANTHOLOGY ON BELARUSIAN WOMEN'S HISTORY
By: Josef Barton
Submissions invited to a book of articles on Belarusian women's
history, which means history of Belarusian, Polish, Jewish,
Lithuanian, Russian women from the region where all the above
mentioned cultures meet. The primary focus is on the turn of the
century, though other periods can also be included. The editors
especially need papers on the role Jewish women.
The collection will be published in Belarusian and English.
Papers can be submitted in English, Polish or Russian. The
deadline is mid-December 1997.
For more information, please contact:
Elena Gapova, Belarusian State University
Address: Ul. Kupaly, 11-98,
Minsk 220030 Belarus
Tel.: 375-17-222-39-41
Fax: 375-17-224-56-29
E-mail: elena@psoft.belpak.minsk.by
List of recent publications
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New books on Jewish history and culture published in
the CIS and Baltic states:
Alov A., Vladimirov N. Judaism in Russia. Series: Religious life
and cultural heritage of Russia. Moscow: Ministry of Culture of
the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian
Institute for cultural and natural heritage, 1997. 100 pp. In Russian
Ioffe E. History of Jews in Belarus: A short survey. Minsk: Jewish
University of Minsk, Arti-Faks, 1996. 294 pp. In Russian
Khonigsman Ya. Yanow camp: Historical survey. Lvov: Sholom-Aleikhem
Society for Jewish Culture in Lvov, 1996. 36 pp. In Russian
Khonigsman Ya. 600 years and 2 years: History of Jews in Drogobych and
Borislav. Lvov: B'nai B'rith "Leopolis", Sholom-Aleikhem Society for
Jewish Culture in Lvov, 1997. 66 pp. In Russian
Kozerod O., Briman S. Denikin's regime and the Jewish population
of Ukraine: 1919 - 1920. Kharkov: Kursor, 1996. 57 pp. In Russian
Jews in Ukraine: History, Culture, Traditions. Collection of scholarly
articles. Kiev: Institute for national relations and politology of the
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1997. 255 pp. In Ukrainian and Russian
Tragedy of Jews in Belarus (1941 - 1944): Documentary collection.
2nd ed., corrected. Edited by R.Chernoglazova. Minsk: E.S.Galperin,
1997. 400 p., ill. In Russian
Short Yiddish-Ukrainian dictonary. Compiled by I.Torchinskii. Kiev:
Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences, 1996. 207 pp. In Yiddish and Ukrainian
Source:
Bulletin "The People of the Book in the World of Books",
Jewish Association of St.Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: frenk@lea.spb.su
Tel./fax: 7-812-311-51-25
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JSEE International academic editorial board:
Henry Abramson (Florida Atlantic University, USA),
Dmitry Elyashevich (St. Petersburg Jewish University, Russia),
Avraham Greenbaum (Ben-Zion Dinur Institute, Israel),
Rashid Kaplanov (Center "Sefer", Russia),
John Klier (University College London, England),
Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University, USA),
Paul Radensky (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA),
Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel),
Michael Steinlauf (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, USA).
JSEE Moderator: Elina Shkolnikova.
Editor of JSEE Vol. 1, No. 2: Vassili Schedrin.
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the Jewish Heritage Society
Address: Russia 117449 Moscow,
Novocheremushkinskaya Ul., 1/14-3-12
E-mail: heritage@glasnet.ru
Website: http://www.glasnet.ru/~heritage/
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