Jewish Relief Organizations in pre-World War II Europe: A Comparative PerspectiveCo-Sponsored by: The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU The American Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem World ORT Wednesday, April 16, 20089:30 - 10:30Keynote Lecture David Engel (New York University) 11:00-12:45 From Philanthropy to Self-Help Chair: Yanni Kotsonis (New York University) Gennady Estraikh (New York University), Helping Jewish Artisans in Imperial Russia Valerii Dymshits (European University, St Petersburg), Traditional Forms of Jewish Communal Philanthropy: An Anthropological Take on the Problem Nahum Karlinsky (Ben-Gurion University), From “Relief Work to Self Help”: The JDC and the Social Engineering of East European Jews between the Two World Wars 2:15-4:00 Regional Jewish Relief Organizations in Eastern Europe Chair: Henry Feingold (City University of New York) Natan Meir (University of Southampton, U.K), Jewish Marginals and Jewish Relief Organizations in Eastern Europe Kalman Weiser (York University, Toronto), Who is in Need? Noah Prylucki – Central Ukrainian Relief Committee (early 1920s) Dmitry Tartakovsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Hanging by a Thread: Local and International Jewish Philanthropy in Rumania and Bessarabia 4:15-6:00 West Helps East Chair: Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union) Nadav Davidovitch (Ben-Gurion University) and Rakefet Zalashik (New York University), New Location, New Discourse?: OZE’s Headquarters in Berlin Sam Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University), Breaking the Silence: British Jews and East European Jewish Relief in the Great War and its Aftermath Gudrun Maierhof (University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt / Main), Support for the Jews from Eastern Europe: Activities of the Hilfsverein der Juden and the League of Jewish Women before 1933 Thursday, April 17, 20089:30-11:15Trans-Atlantic Movement of Ideas, People and Activities Chair: Hasia Diner (New York University) Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Hebrew University), Mapping Problems of Jewish Transnational Philanthropy Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia University), Empire of Charity: American Jewish Philanthropists, Poland and Perceptions of American Imperialism (1920s) Michael Beizer (Hebrew University and AJJDC, Jerusalem), I Seek my Brethren from Afar: Problems of Aid by Remote Control. The AJJDC in Russia 1:00-2:45 Cooperation Across Ideological Lines Chair: Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers University) Valery Bazarov (HIAS, New York), HIAS in Pre-war Europe: New Models in Rescuing Jews Alexander Ivanov (European University, St Petersburg), Participation of the ORT Union in the Development of Birobidzhan and the Problem of German-Jewish Refugees in Europe, 1934-1937 Mikhail Mitsel (AJJDC, New York), The Final Chapter: Agro-Joint Workers - Victims of the Great Terror in the USSR, 1937-1939 3:00-4:00 Concluding Remarks David Engel (New York University) All sessions will take place at The Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street (between 5th Ave and University Place). Please RSVP to gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu if you would like to attend.Conference Committee: Gennady Estraikh (New York University) Rakefet Zalashik (New York University) Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Hebrew University)     |
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