THE JEAN 8c SAMUEL FRANKEL CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES
AND THE FRANICEL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES
WINTER 2012 EVENTS CALENDAR
JANUARY 26, 12 NOON
FEBRUARY 15, 4 PM
Brian Horowitz, Tulane University, 2011-2012
Frankel Institute
The Politics of Jewish Enlightenment in Late-
Tsarist Russia
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
FEBRUARY 6, 9:30 AM - 4 PM
Symposium: Up Against the Wall: Israel in a
Changing Middle East
911 N. University, Michigan League, Koessler
Room, Ann Arbor
FEBRUARY 6, 6 PM
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Michal Kravel-Tovi, Mandell L. Berman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Contemporary
American Jewish Life
An Accounting of the Souk The Organized
American-Jewish Community, Social Science, and
the Language of "Continuity"
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
Michael Schlie, Indiana University,
2011-2012 Frankel Institute fellow
The Politics ofEvil: Franz Rosenzweig, Leo
Strauss, and the Last Man
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
MARCH 8, 7 PM (RECEPTION AT
6:30 PM)
FEBRUARY 8, 4 pm
22nd Annual Belin Lecture:
Samuel Norich, The Jewish Daily Forward
Klezmer Time Zones
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
FEBRUARY 9, 12 NOON
Olena Bagno-Moldayski, Stanford, 2011-2012
Frankel Institute
Political Culture of FSUJews in Germany, Israel
and the Ukraine
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
FEBRUARY 14, 4 PM
Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
Mogulesco: A Tale of the Yiddish Theater
(Film and Discussion)
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
The Forward: Independent Jewish Journalism in
the Age of Digital Media
100 Washtenaw Ave., Palmer Commons,
Forum Hall, Ann Arbor
MARCH 22, 12 NOON
Lenore Weitzman, George Mason University,
2011-2012 Frankel Institute
Women of the Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust:
The Underground Army of Kashariyot
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
MARCH 27, 4 PM
Haviva Pedaya, Ben Gurion University
Walking Through Trauma/Rituals of Exile
and Repair: Jewish Mysticism, History,
and the Poetic Imagination
202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022, Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Teams with Harvard for Conference
on Russian-Speaking Diaspora
Generous grants from the Frankel Family
Foundation and the Blavatnik Family Foundation
enabled the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies to
co-sponsor a conference with the Davis Center
for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University on November 13-15, 2011. The
conference focused on the contemporary Russian-
speaking Jewish diaspora and drew over a hundred
scholars from eight different countries.
Russian-speaking Jews are concentrated
overwhelmingly outside their birthplaces or the
birthplaces of their parents. Today almost two
million Russian-speaking people, most of them
Jews, live outside the Former Soviet Union (FSU).
There are probably no more than 300,000 —
400,000 Jews living throughout the former Soviet
territories, about 250,000 in Russia itself. Thus,
today there are between four and five times as
many Jewish native speakers of Russian outside the
borders of the FSU as within them.
Of nearly 140 proposals for papers
submitted to the conference, convenors Zvi
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Thayer Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
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Executive Committee
FEBRUARY 16, 12 NOON
Israeli Spring? The EnduringJewish Question
530 South State Street, Michigan Union,
Rogel Ballroom, Ann Arbor
Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
University of Michigan
Frankel Center for
Judaic Studies
Gitelman of Michigan and Lisbeth Tallow of
Harvard selected 26 for presentation. Symposia
involving those who work with Russian-speaking
Jews in Germany, Israel, and the United States, as
well as immigrants themselves, complemented the
formal papers. Zvi Gitelman delivered the keynote
address, "Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands
in Between." Other Frankel Institute Fellows
or Frankel Center affiliates who participated in
the conference were professors Brian Horowitz,
Mikhail Krutikov and Lenore Weitzman. Former
Fellow Alanna Cooper and incoming Fellow Olena
Bagno also presented scholarly papers.
Conferees analyzed several dimensions
of the largest Jewish emigration in a century:
demographic, political, cultural and sociological.
Many presentations addressed broader questions
about the concepts of diaspora, globalization and
transnationalisms. A volume of selected papers,
edited by Zvi Gitelman, is planned, and it is likely
that all the papers will be made available online.
Deborah Dash Moore, Director
Elliot Ginsburg
Julian Levinson
Anita Norich
The Regents of the
University of Michigan
Julia Donovan Darlow
Laurence B. Deitch
Denise Hitch
Olivia P. Maynard
Andrea Fischer Newman
Andrew C. Richner
S. Martin Taylor
Katherine E. White
Mary Sue Coleman, ex officio ;
FranIcet Institute for
vanced Judaic Studies
Steering Committee
Derek Collins
Deborah Dash Moore
Elliot Ginsburg
Deborah Keller-Cohen
Julian Levinson
Daniel Herwitz
Anita Norich
Academic Advisory Board
Robert B. Alter
University of California-Berkeley
Jonathan Boyarin
University of North Carolina
Frances Degen Horowitz
City University of New York
Deborah Lipstadt
Emory University
Peter Machinist
Harvard Divinity School
Ray Scheindlin
Jewish Theological Seminary
Kay Kaufman Shelamay
Harvard University
James Young
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst
Steven Zipperstein
Stanford University
Kim Reick Kunoff, Editor/Layout/
Design