JSEE: Общая информация
____________________________________________________________
JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP IN EASTERN EUROPE
Vol. 3, No. 2, April - October 1999
____________________________________________________________
CONTENTS
- CALENDAR OF ACADEMIC EVENTS
- International Academic Workshop on Yiddish Drama,
Theatre, and Performing Arts
- The Mendel Friedman International Conference: Shtetl:
Reality and Image
- Conference on Judaica Archives in Europe:
"Preserving Jewish Archives as Part of the European
Cultural Heritage"
- 10th Annual Summer Institute on Yiddish and Yiddishkeit
- News Update from Moscow Center for University Teaching
of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"
- 3rd International Conference "Jewish in a Changing World:
Outstanding Jewish Personalities in the History of Latvia
and Baltics"
- International Conference "Polish Jewry 1918 - 1939:
Life-Worlds and Political Action"
- 7th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on
Jewish Studies in Moscow
- PUBLICATIONS
- Yulian I. Rafes
Doctor Tsemakh Shabad: A Great Citizen of the Jewish
Diaspora. Baltimore, 1999.
- Avraham Greenbaum
The Periodical Publications of the Jewish Labour and
Revolutionary Movements in Eastern and Southeastern
Europe, l877 - l9l6: An Annotated Bibliography.
Jerusalem, l998.
- Henry Abramson
A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in
Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920. Cambridge, MA, 1999.
- INTERNET RESOURCES
- Selected Internet Resources on the Jews in the former
USSR
- Mailing List for Eastern European Jewish History:
Ashkenaz and Khazaria
____________________________________________________________
CALENDAR OF ACADEMIC EVENTS
____________________________________________________________
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC WORKSHOP ON YIDDISH DRAMA,
THEATRE, AND PERFORMING ARTS
Oxford, England, June 29 - July 2, 1999
ORGANIZERS
- Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
- The European Science Foundation, Strasbourg
- Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty, Oxford University
PROGRAM
- June 29
HASKOLE
Chair: JEROLD FRAKES
JEREMY DAUBER (Magdalen College, Oxford)
"Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn: Language, Audience, Drama"
JUTTA STRAUSS (University of Copenhagen)
"Yiddish Roles in Haskalah & Enlightenment Drama"
TRANSLATION INTO YIDDISH
Chair: YITSKHOK NIBORSKI
DROR ABEND-DAVID (New York University)
"Daytshmerish, German Elements, and Jewish Identity in
Three Yiddish Translations of The Merchant of Venice"
HELEN BEER (Worcester College, Oxford)
"Itsik Manger and Woyzeck"
INAUGURAL EVENING
Greetings
MARTIN GOODMAN, Acting President (Oxford Centre for Hebrew
and Jewish Studies)
Introduction to the work of the European Science Foundation
MARIANNE YAGOUBI (European Science Foundation, Strasbourg)
Opening remarks
DOV-BER KERLER and JOEL BERKOWITZ (Workshop Organisers)
Keynote address
NAHMA SANDROW (Bronx Community College, City University of
New York)
- June 30
CENTRAL EUROPE
Chair: NINA WARNKE
BRIGITTE DALINGER (University of Vienna)
"Yiddish Theatre in Vienna from 1880 to 1938"
MOSHE YASSUR (Yiddish Actor, New York)
"The Last Years of the Goldfaden Yiddish Theater at 'Pomul
Verde' in Iasi, Romania (an Eyewitness Account)"
PURIMSHPIL
Chair: TED FRAM
JEROLD FRAKES (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Purimshpil as Political Action"
AHUVA BELKIN (Tel Aviv University)
"The 'Law' Culture Aspects of the Purimshpil"
JEAN BAUMGARTEN (CNRS, Paris)
"A Purimshpil in Kiryat Vizhnitz, Bnei Braq (March 1996)"
RUSSIAN AND SOVIET YIDDISH THEATRE
Chair: JEFFREY VEIDLINGER
JOHN KLIER (University College, London)
"Exeunt, Pursued by a Bear: Russian Administrators and the
Ban on Yiddish Theatre, Drama, and Performance"
BARBARA HENRY (St Antony's College, Oxford)
"Jewish Plays on the Russian Stage: Moscow and St Petersburg
(1905-1917)"
AVRAHAM GREENBAUM (Haifa University)
"Repertory and Repertory Problems in the Belorussian Jewish
State Theatre in the Interwar Period"
YIDDISH PLAYWRIGHTS
Chair: DOV-BER KERLER
YITSKHOK NIBORSKI (INALCO, Paris)
"The Theatre of Aaron Zeitlin"
VASSILI SCHEDRIN (Brandeis University)
"'Eternal Wanderer': The Life of Osip Dymov"
LEONARD PRAGER (Haifa University)
"The Censorship of Asch's Got fun nekome, London, 1946"
PERFORMANCE
RAPHAEL GOLDWASSER (LUFTEATER, STRASBOURG)
Classic Yiddish Monologues
LEAH SHLANGER (TEL AVIV)
Shir-haShirim - A Monodrama
- July 1
MUSIC AND RADIO
Chair: ITSIK GOTTESMAN
RON ROBBOY (The Thomashefsky Project, San Francisco)
"A Crypto-Wagnerian Event in a Yiddish Musical Production:
Alexander Olshanetsky's Longing for a Forbidden Harmonic
Language"
HENRY SAPOZNIK (Living Traditions, New York)
"On Stage and On the Air: Yiddish Drama on Radio"
AVROM GOLDFADEN
Chair: JOEL BERKOWITZ
PAOLA BERTOLONE (Rome)
"The Goldfaden Myth in Yiddish Culture"
MIROSLAWA BULAT (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
"From Goldfaden to Goldfaden in Cracow's Jewish Theatres"
ALYSSA QUINT (Harvard University)
"Avrom Goldfaden's Bar Kokhba"
SETH WOLITZ (University of Texas, Austin)
"The Role of Song in Goldfaden's Shulamis and Bar Kokhba"
DYBBUKS, GOLEMS, AND KINDRED SPIRITS
Chair: SETH WOLITZ
LAURA MINCER (Independent Scholar, Rome)
"Tradition Revisited in Moni Ovadia's Yiddish Theatre"
NINA HEIN (Columbia University)
"Automatons and Marionettes in the Yiddish Theatre of the
1920s"
POLEMICS AND POLITICS
Chair: LEONARD PRAGER
NINA WARNKE (Indiana University)
"The Child that Doesn't Grow Up: Yiddish Theatre and Its
Critics"
JOEL BERKOWITZ (St Cross College, Oxford)
"Moyshele, Wipe Your Nose!, or, The Mendel Beilis Affair on
the Yiddish Stage"
EDNA NAHSHON (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York)
"The Performance of Justice: Yiddish Mock Trials"
PERFORMANCE
SHIFRA LERER (NEW YORK) AND BERNARD MENDELOVITCH (LONDON)
The World of Yiddish Theatre
piano: DAVID MAZOWER
- July 2
AT THE MARGINS OF YIDDISH AND OF THEATRE
Chair: EDNA NAHSHON
BEN FURNISH (BkMk Press, Kansas City)
"Echoes of the Yiddish Stage in Contemporary Jewish-American
Drama"
ITSIK GOTTESMAN (University of Texas, Austin)
"The Yiddish 'Folks-retsitator"'
DAVID MAZOWER (BBC, London)
"Stories in Song: The Melodeklamatsies of Joseph Markovitch"
THE MOSCOW STATE YIDDISH THEATRE
Chair: BARBARA HENRY
JEFFREY VEIDLINGER (Indiana University)
"Socialist Realism on the Soviet Yiddish Stage"
JOSEPH SCHEIN (Yiddish Author, Paris)
"Shloyme Mikhoels and GOSET: A Firsthand Account"
For more information contact:
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
45 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LP United Kingdom
E-mail: ochjs@sable.oxford.ac.uk
Web site: http://associnst.ox.ac.uk/ochjs
THE MENDEL FRIEDMAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
SHTETL: REALITY AND IMAGE
Christ Church, University of Oxford, England
July 6-8, 1999
Participants and papers:
Mordechai Altshuler, Hebrew University
The Shtetl in the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1930s
Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf
A Shtetl in the Old Amsterdam
Israel Bartal, Hebrew University
The Changing Map of the Shtetl: A Case of Ideological
Geography
Dafna Clifford, School of Oriental and African Studies
Three Profiles of Kuzmir: from Sholem Asch to Leyb Rashkin
Gennady Estraikh, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies
Shtetl in Sovetish Heymland
Samuel Kassow, Trinity College
The Shtetl Reality in Yiddish Press and Yizkorbikher
Hillel Kazovsky, Hebrew University
The Shtetl in Jewish Art between Two World Wars
John Klier, University College London
What Exactly Was a Shtetl?
Mikhail Krutikov, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies
The Jewish Paris: Berdichev in Yiddish and Russian Fiction
Dan Miron, Columbia & Hebrew University
The Shtetl Idyll as an Emotional Laxative for Ex-shtetldik
readers: Zalmen Shneur's Shklover yidn
Avraham Nowersztern, Hebrew University
Between Day and Night: Yiddish Literature in Poland Before
World War Two
David Roskies, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
Teaching the Shtetl
The proceedings of this conference will be published by Legenda,
University of Oxford, in early 2000.
For more information contact:
Marie Wright
Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies
Golden Cross Court, 4 Cornmarket, Oxford, OX1 3EX UK
Tel.: 44-1865-798989
Fax: 44-1865-798987
E-mail: yiddishstudies@oxf-inst.demon.co.uk
Web site: http://www.oxf-inst.demon.co.uk
CONFERENCE ON JUDAICA ARCHIVES IN EUROPE:
"PRESERVING JEWISH ARCHIVES AS PART OF THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL
HERITAGE"
Potsdam, Germany, July 11-13, 1999
The European Council of Jewish Communities (London) the
Alliance Israelite Universelle (Paris) and the Moses
Mendelssohn Zentrum for European Jewish Studies (Potsdam)
and Jewish Partnership for Europe (Brussels) held
a four day conference on the preservation of Jewish archives
all over Europe. The conference was supported by the European
Union in the framework of the RAPHAEL programme. The conference
was open to archivists and librarians and took place from
11th -13th July 1999 in Potsdam, Germany. In total, some 100
participants from all over Europe as well as the US and Israel
attended the conference.
The conference focused on an assessment of the situation of
archives and libraries in the various countries, with a special
focus on the state of archives, and on some of the major issues
confronted by archives and libraries in Europe. It is a first
step leading to the creation of an active network, joint
projects and European wide continuing education programmes for
professionals with an opportunity for exchanges of experience
skills and pooling of resources.
- Steering Committee
Charles Berlin (Harvard University, USA)
Jean Claude Kuperminc (Alliance Israelite Universelle, France)
Silke Muter (Jewish Partnership for Europe, Belgium)
Joachim Schlor (Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European Jewish
Studies, Germany)
Yale Reisner (The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, USA)
Ruth Zilkha (European Council of Jewish Communities, France)
- Program
July 11
Opening Session at Potsdam University
Keynote Lectures
- Judaica Source Material and the Reconstruction of Jewish
Social and Cultural History
- Judaica Libraries and Archives in the 21st Century
Five Regional Panels
- The State of Judaica Archives and Libraries in Europe:
Reports
July 12
Public Service Issues
- Technical Service Issues
- Workshops on Cataloging and Preservation
- Regional workshops (parallel sessions)
- Free Presentations
July 13
Workshops: Access - New Media
- Networking and Cooperation
For more information contact:
Dr. Joachim Schlor or Thekla Bernecker
Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European Jewish Studies
Am Neuen Markt 8, Potsdam D-14467 Germany
Tel.: 49-0-331-28094-13
Fax: 49-0-331-28094-50
E-mail: schloer@rz.uni-potsdam.de
10TH ANNUAL SUMMER INSTITUTE ON YIDDISH AND YIDDISHKEIT
Kiev, Ukraine, July 20 - August 12, 1999
The World Coundil on Yiddish Culture held its tenth annual
summer Institute on Yiddish and Yiddishkeit a three week
program of intensified Jewish studies utilizing Yiddish
as the medium of instruction and communication.
Faculty:
- from Israel
Prof. Dov Noy
Prof. Gershon Winer
author Abraham Karpinovitz
Dr. Naomi Fogelman
Dr. Sarah Lapitzkia
Dr. Mordechai Yushkovsky
- from the US
Rabbi Sidney Solomon
Ms. Roth Kossover Solomon
Dr. Sara Feinstein
- from Eastern Europe
Prof. Martin Feller
Dr. M. Derbaremdiker
musicologist Sergei Bengelsdorf
Curriculum and Program:
- Yiddish language, Yiddish literature (including courses
on Soviet Yiddish authors and course on the Israel Theme
in Yiddish Literature)
- Jewish tradition and folkways, selections from Bible,
Pirkei Avot, folklore
- Yiddish folksongs and art songs
- Drama studio
- Field trips, Sabbath services and cultural events
All courses conducted in Yiddish.
Further information:
Prof. Gershon Winer
World Council for Yiddish Culture
30 Dov Hoz Street, POB 11676, Tel Aviv 61116 Israel
Fax: 972-3-523-0520
E-mail: winer@euronet.co.il
NEWS UPDATE FROM MOSCOW CENTER FOR UNIVERSITY
TEACHING OF JEWISH CIVILIZATION "SEFER"
By:
Jonathan Porath
jporath@jdc.org.il
1.
Center "Sefer" will be holding its Seventh Annual Academic
Conference in Moscow, January 31 - February 2, 2000. See
announcement included in calendar section of this issue.
2.
At the upcoming AJC conference in Chicago there will be a
session on Academic Judaica in the Former Soviet Union:
An Update, sponsored by the JDC. Prof. Arkady Kovelman and
Rabbi Jonathan Porath will be making presentations. The
session will take place on Monday afternoon, December 20,
1999. All conference attendees are invited.
3.
A number of exciting events have taken place recently
for students of Academic Judiaca in the FSU: a student
conference and Summer School (both in July, 1999), the
publication of a student academic annual "Tirosh", and
"Eshnav", a month long study program in Jerusalem for
advanced students in Judaica. The full report is
forthcoming.
For information on the activities and publications of
the Association of Moscow Jewish Studies Students
visit http://www.jewish-heritage.org/stcnfree.htm
4.
Most exciting is the publication of the 1999 edition of the
Academic Directory of Jewish Studies in the CIS and Baltic
States ("Sefer", Moscow), a 263 page compilation of
institutions of higher learning, research institutions,
over 850 individual names and addresses of scholars and
teachers in the former USSR, plus indices by subject and
location. The Directory is available in either English or
Russian.
Copies are available at no charge either from "Sefer" in
Moscow or from the JDC Russian Department in Jerusalem.
Copies will also be available at the previously mentioned
AJS conference in Chicago, at the Acadmeic Judaica session
(December 20, 1999).
For more information contact:
Rabbi Jonathan Porath, JDC, Jerusalem
E-mail: jporath@jdc.org.il
Dr. Viktoria Mochalova, "Sefer", Moscow
E-mail: sefer@fl08.tower.ras.ru
3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"JEWS IN A CHANGING WORLD: OUTSTANDING JEWISH PERSONALITIES
IN THE HISTORY OF LATVIA AND BALTICS"
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, October 26-27, 1999
The Third International Conference "Jews in a Changing
World" was held in Riga, on October 26-27, 1999. In
honor of the 80th anniversary of the University of Latvia,
the papers were presented on outstanding Jewish
personalities in the history of Latvia and Baltics,
including thinkers and leaders in religion, science,
medicine, and the humanities. There was a special
extended session dedicated to the memory of Sir Isaiah
Berlin. His biographer, Michael Ignatieff, spoke about
Berlin's ties to his birthplace, Riga.
- Sponsor
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, USA
- Organizers
Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia
(Riga, Latvia)
M.Dubin Foundation of the SHAMIR Association (Riga,
Latvia)
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (New York, USA)
Israel Government and Hebrew University Center for
Academic and Educational Relations with the CIS and
Baltic States (Jerusalem, Israel)
Hebrew University's Institute of Jewish Studies
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Hebrew University's International Center for University
Teaching of Jewish Civilization (Jerusalem, Israel)
Latvian Academy of Sciences (Riga, Latvia)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beersheba, Israel)
- Honorary President of the Conference
N.Barkan, Chief Rabbi of Riga and Latvia
- Organizing Committee
Prof. H.Branover, Co-Chairman (Israel)
Prof. R.Ferber, Co-Chairman (Latvia)
G.Umanovska, Secretary (Latvia)
A.Antane (Latvia)
Rabbi A.Bekker (Latvia)
Prof. L.Dribins (Latvia)
Z.Elkin (Israel)
A.Ferdman (Latvia)
Dr. J.Hochbaum (USA)
Z.Ioffe (Latvia)
I.Kanepaja (Latvia)
Prof. A.Kleckin (Latvia)
Dr. G.Krupnikov (Latvia)
Dr. N.Patlas (Israel)
V.Reznik-Martov (Latvia)
Dr. G.Smirin (Latvia)
Prof. A.Stranga (Latvia)
M.Versterman (Latvia).
- International Advisory Committee
Prof. Y.Assis (Israel)
Prof. I.Bartal (Israel)
Dr. M.Chernenko (Russia)
V.Dubnova (Russia)
A.Fridman (Latvia)
Dr. M.Grubarg (Russia)
P.Kalms (UK)
Z.Katz (Latvia)
M.Leinwand (Israel)
Prof. S.Redlich (Israel)
Prof. Stradinsh (Latvia)
Prof. J.Veinberg (Israel)
Dr. Z.Wagner (Israel)
Prof. E.Zeiger (USA)
For more infromation contact:
Ruvin Ferber
University of Latvia
19 Rainis Blvd., Riga LV-1586 Latvia
Tel.: 371-7-615703
Fax: 371-7-820113
E-mail: ferber@latnet.lv
Gita Umanovska
Center for Judaic Studies, University of Latvia
19 Rainis Blvd., Riga LV-1586 Latvia
Tel.: 371-7-325519
Aina Antane
Center for Judaic Studies, University of Latvia
19 Rainis Blvd., Riga LV-1586 Latvia
Tel.: 371-7-227301
E-mail: jsc@latnet.lv
Shulamith Friedman
Solmecs Ltd.
POB 3026, Omer 84965 Israel
Tel.: 972-7-690-0950
Fax: 972-7-690-0953
E-mail: branover@solmecs.co.il
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"POLISH JEWRY 1918 - 1939: LIFE-WORLDS AND POLITICAL ACTION"
Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur,
Leipzig, Germany, December 12-13, 1999
"What is the role of Polish Jewry, what is their destiny?
Both quantitatively and qualitatively, their destiny, and
soon their vocation as well, will be to show the way for
Jewry throughout the world."
Ozjasz Thon, the leading representative of the moderate
Zionists, reached this conclusion in 1932. Viewed against
the background of the widespread fears of Polish Jews after
World War I that they would occupy a less favorable position
as an ethnic minority in the restored Polish nation-state
than they had under the multinational Russian empire, Thon's
adage testifies to the change in outlook among the Jewish
population in response to a process of adaptation to the
new political reality that extended deep into everyday
life. Proceeding from the question of the role that
ethnicity played in the transition from the multiethnic
empires of the pre-war period to the new nation-states of
(Eastern) Central Europe, the conference will focus on the
changes in the life-worlds of Polish Jewry and their various
options for collective and individual action. With the
emergence of new nation-states after 1917/18, ethnic
minorities found themselves confronted with wholly altered
life situations. In the Polish context, the battle over the
boundaries of the polity that accompanied the creation of
the new state had serious repercussions for the Jewish
population; at the Versailles peace negotiations, it was
only under international pressure that Poland could
be moved to sign the agreements on the protection of
minorities that had been drawn up largely in response to
Jewish interventions. In the period that followed it became
clear that the hegemonic policies of the Polish power
elites were directed not only at compensation for the
injustices suffered under partition, but also at a revision
of the terms of Versailles, as is apparent in their treatment
of minorities.
Polish Jewry now had to live with the contradiction between
an initially (formally) democratic but minority-unfriendly
nation-state and cultural and political pluralism. An
understanding of Jewish life-worlds in the inter-war period
also presupposes an analysis of the social structure and
social transformations after 1918. Likewise, we must pay
attention to the previously unheard-of opportunities for
political participation and cultural flowering that
characterized the life world of the Second Republic.
In everyday life, the relationships between the majority
population and the Jewish minority were marked by a broad
range of cooperation, conflict and exclusion; anti-Semitism
played a dominant role here, particularly in the 1930s.
We also need to ask how the Jewish population reacted to their
changed circumstances after 1918, for example, what importance
did they accord to the alternative "do oder dort", to stay or
to go. This question, like issues of linguistic orientation
and social and political group memberships, determined the
political patterns of action that developed in the inter-war
period, which were characterized on the whole by extraordinary
diversity, documenting the highly developed political culture
of Polish Jewry. Individual examples will permit us to examine
this in detail. The areas of youth and educational work were
of decisive importance for the reproduction of the various
versions of Jewish identity in Poland, not least in regard
to the different linguistic patterns. This complex of themes
will thus also be important at the conference. In addition,
a special section will be devoted to a comparative view of
trends in the various regions of Central and Eastern Europe.
Papers can be presented in English or German. The should not
exceed 30 min. Please send your proposition with a short
abstract not later than August 30, 1999, to:
Dr. G.Pickhan or Dr. F.Guesnet
Simon-Dubnow-Institut fuer juedische Geschichte und Kultur
Goldschmidtstrasse 28, Leipzig D-04105 Germany
Tel.: 49-0-341-217-35-54
Fax: 49-0-341-217-35-55
E-mail: dubnow@rz.uni-leipzig.de
SEVENTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY
CONFERENCE ON JEWISH STUDIES
Center "Sefer", Moscow, Russia
January 31 - February 2, 2000
Center "Sefer" is pleased to invite you to participate
in the Seventh Annual International Interdisciplinary
conference on Jewish Studies to be held in Moscow,
from January 31 - February 2, 2000.
Moscow Center "Sefer" is organizing the conference in
cooperation with the International Center for University
Teaching of Jewish Civilization (Hebrew University of
Jerusalem) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee.
The conference will include a series of workshops on
various topics in academic Judaica:
- Bible and Semitology
- Jewish Thought,
- Jewish History
- Russian Jewish Studies
- Israeli Studies,
- Literature and Languages
- Jewish Identity, Demography and Sociology
Papers on other topics will also be considered. Selected
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. A letter of
intent and two-page abstract is requested by November 1,
1999 by e-mail or on diskette.
The organizers cover the travel and accomodation expences
of the participants from the CIS and Baltic countries.
For more information contact:
Dr. Viktoria Mochalova, Director, Center "Sefer"
Leninsky prospekt, 32 A, bldg. B, room 808
Moscow 117334 Russia
Tel.: 7-095-938-57-16
Fax: 7-095-938-00-70
E-mail: sefer@fl08.tower.ras.ru
Web site: http://www.glasnet.ru/~sefer
____________________________________________________________
PUBLICATIONS
____________________________________________________________
Yulian I. Rafes. _Doctor Tsemakh Shabad: A Great Citizen
of the Jewish Diaspora_. Edited by Lisa Epstein and Steven
Sedlis. Baltimore: VIA Press, Vestnik Information Agency,
1999. 228 p., illus. ISBN 1-885563-17-5.
By:
Zachary Baker
yivo1@metgate.metro.org
Here is a bit of background on the book, in the words of Lisa
Epstein, Research Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research:
"Dr. Rafes' book places Dr. Shabad's medical activities in
the context of medical science of the day. With a wealth of
information hitherto unavailable in English, it provides a
detailed description of the scope of public health efforts
initiated or inspired by Dr. Shabad.
This work is a glowing tribute to Dr. Shabad, who was so
greatly revered by the Jewish population of Eastern Europe
during his lifetime. Dr. Rafes has poured his own passion
for Jewish public health care, Jewish medical history, and
the memory of Dr. Shabad into this project.
The name of Dr. Shabad has always been a highly revered
one at YIVO. Not only was he one of the founders of the
institution, but his daughter Regina married the brilliant
scholar Dr. Max Weinreich, who shaped YIVO's intellectual
direction for four decades, first in Vilna, then in New York.
His elder son, Uriel, Dr. Shabad's grandson, was a brilliant
linguist, also bringing scholarly leadership to YIVO. The
history of the Shabad family and the YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research, then, are inseparably intertwined."
Throughout his long and distinguished career as a medical
doctor and as a cultural and political figure, Dr. Shabad
personified the integrity and intellectual distinction of
his native city of Vilna, the fabled "Jerusalem of Lithuania."
Dr. Yulian I. Rafes is the author two other recent books,
also published by VIA Press: _The Way We Were before Our
Destruction_ (memoir of and documents about the author's
gymnasium classmates in Vilna; in English) and _Paths of
My Destiny_ (memoir about Dr. Rafes' education and medical
career in the former Soviet Union; in Russian).
The book is available from the publisher, send orders and
inquires to:
6100 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215 USA
Tel.: 1-410-358-0900
Avraham Greenbaum. _The Periodical Publications of the Jewish
Labour and Revolutionary Movements in Eastern and Southeastern
Europe, l877 - l9l6: An Annotated Bibliography_. Jerusalem:
Dinur Institute of the Hebrew University, l998.
The publication includes 250 entries plus historical and
bibliographic introductions in English and Hebrew.
For more information contact the author:
Prof. Avraham Greenbaum
E-mail: sh-agreb@actcom.co.il
Henry Abramson. _A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and
Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920_. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard
Judaic Texts and Studies), 1999. ISBN 0-916-458-88-1 (cloth),
0-916-458-87-3 (paper).
For more information contact:
Publications Office
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
1583 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Tel.: 1-617-495-3692
Fax: 1-617-495-8097
E-mail: huri@fas.harvard.edu
____________________________________________________________
INTERNET RESOURCES
____________________________________________________________
SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES ON THE JEWS IN THE FORMER USSR
Source:
Bulletin "The People of the Book in the World of Books"
No. 20, 1999. Published by Jewish Association of
St. Petersburg, Russia.
Tel. and fax: 7-812-314-51-17
E-mail: frenk@lea.spb.su
- Communal and cultural organizations
Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg
http://www.jew.spb.ru
"Atikva" - Foundation for Support of Jewish Culture
http://hatikva.rosweb.ru
Jewish Revival in Central Russia
http://www.uic.nnov.ru/judaica
Jewish Life in Ural, Siberia and Russian Far East
http://www.shalom.omsk.su
- Religious organizations
Moscow Choral Synagogue
http://www.corbina.net/~synrus
Federation of Jewish Communities in the CIS
http://www.fjc.ru
Jewish Community of St. Petersburg
http://www.tora.convey.ru or www.jewish.spb.ru
- Social organizations and funding agencies
Russian Jewish Congress
http://www.rjc.ru
Jewish Agency in Russia
http://www.jair.ru
"Joint" - AJJDC in the former Soviet Union
http://www.jdc.org.il/fsu/
- Research and educational organizations
"Sefer" - Moscow Center for University Teaching of
Jewish Civilization
http://www.glasnet.ru/~sefer
Jewish Heritage Society
http://www.jewish-heritage.org
"MIR" - Institute for Heritage of Russian Jewry
http://granite.koan.com/~mir
Center of Jewish Education in Ukraine
http://www.cjeu.8m.com
- Miscellaneous
Directory to Jewish organizations in Russia
http://www.jewish.da.ru
"Keler Shtibl" - Yiddish literature and culture
http://www.glasnet.ru/~anbredstein
"Matzevot Page" - Tombstones on Jewish cemeteries in
Eastern Europe
http://www.coe.neu.edu/~mnosonov/maz
Research Library and Archives of Jewish Theater
http://members.tripod.com/~jtheater
MAILING LIST FOR EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH HISTORY:
ASHKENAZ AND KHAZARIA
By:
Dr. Bryan Griffith Dobbs, Co-Moderator
bgdobbs@globalserve.net
EEJH is a mailing list for the discussion of Jewish history
and culture (including language and folklore) in the lands
of Eastern Europe. Among the Jewish groups discussed are:
- Ashkenazim:
Rabbinical Jews of Poland, Lithuania, Bessarabia, Belarus,
Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Ukraine, etc.
- Subbotniki:
A Russian sect which adopted elements of Judaism.
- Romaniotes:
Greek-speaking Jews of the Balkans.
- Krymchaks:
Rabbinical Jews of Crimea.
- Karaites:
Non-Rabbinical Anti-Talmudists of Crimea.
- Lithuania Sephardim:
A few thousand of them lived in Bulgaria, Romania,
Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland.
- Austria Sabbatians:
Crypto-Jewish sectarians in Eastern Europe.
- Frankists:
Heterodox Sabbatians in Poland primarily.
The list has existed since 1994 at several mail servers,
and recently moved from ORT to ONELIST. At the current
time, list moderators are:
Kevin Alan Brook
kbrook@khazaria.com
and
Bryan Griffith Dobbs
bgdobbs@globalserve.net
The list regularly features notices of upcoming conferences
and special events and publishes or reprints book reviews of
important new works. The list web site is:
http://www.khazaria.com/eejh
____________________________________________________________
JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP IN EASTERN EUROPE:
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
JSEE International academic editorial board:
Henry Abramson (Florida Atlantic University, USA),
Dmitry Elyashevich (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),
Jonathan Porath (FSU Department, AJJDC, Israel),
Paul Radensky (Jewish Theological Seminary, USA),
Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel),
Michael Steinlauf (Gratz College, USA).
Editor of JSEE Vol. 3, No. 2: Vassili Schedrin
Subscription requests and submissions: jsee@jewish-heritage.org
Archives: http://www.jewish-heritage.org/jseeare.htm
____________________________________________________________
The JSEE is maintained and moderated by
the Jewish Heritage Society
Address: Russia 117449 Moscow,
Novocheremushkinskaya Ul., 1/14-3-12
E-mail: info@jewish-heritage.org
Web site: http://www.jewish-heritage.org
____________________________________________________________