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1929: Mapping the Jewish World

April 17 - 18, 2005

This event was made possible through the generous donations of The Melvin Rauch Foundation. Additional support provided by The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation and The Cukier Goldstein-Goren Foundation.

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Ends and Beginnings

Hasia Diner, New York University
American Jewry, 1929

Ronald Zweig, New York University
Britain and Zionism at a Watershed

David Engel, New York University
Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads

Gennady Estraikh, New York University
The Stalinist 'Great Break' in Yiddishland

Culture

Ari Kelman, The National Museum of American Jewish History / UPenn
Yiddish Radio Finds Its Voice

Edna Nahshon, Jewish Theological Seminary
Discord on the Great White Way: Jews, Show-Biz and the 'Freiburg Passion Play.'

Arieh Bruce Saposnik, Arizona State University
Wailing Walls and Iron Walls: Soldering the Sacred and the National at the Kotel, 1929 and Beyond.

Judah Cohen, New York University
Singing the Grand Narrative: A.Z. Idelsohn and the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development.

Literature

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University
Jewish Literature in America on the Eve of the Depression

Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan
Riding a Black Pig: Desire, Destiny, and Death in the Early Soviet Yiddish Fiction

Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary
Between the Urban and the Pastoral: Poetry and the Photography in the Yishuv.

Harriet Murav, University of Illinois, Urbana -Champaign
Perets Markish, Mourning and the Civil War.

Monday, April 18, 2005

Diaspora Politics

Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv University
The "Wailing Wall Incidents" (1939) and their impact on Arab-Jewish Relations outside Palestine.

Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
Regime Change and Ethnic Conflict: The Jewish World of Sao Paulo, Brazil 1924-1940.

Henry Srebnik, University of Prince Edward Island
"Ver vet boyen biro-bidzhan?" Territorialism and the 1929 ICOR Commission to the Soviet Far East.

Rebecca Kobrin, Yale University / New York University
"Have You Forgotten Us?": 1929 as a Turning Point in American Jewish Overseas Philanthropy and Its Support of Jews in Poland.

Transmitting Ideas

David Shneer, University of Denver
A Study in Red: Jewish Scholarship in the Soviet Union.

Cecile Kuznitz, Bard College
Great Expectations: 1929 as the Apex of YIVO's Activities in Vilna

Eric Goldstein, Emory University
The Struggle over Yiddish in Post-Immigrant America

Harold Wechsler, University of Rochester
Jewish Scholarship in the United States

Please call 212-998-8981 or email Shayne Figueroa.