DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

THE CUMMINGS CENTER FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES, THE GRADUATE SCHOOL,
DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES, THE CITY COLLEGE
THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

JEWS AND JEWISH LIFE
IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION

MOSCOW
26-28 APRIL 1993

• MONDAY, 26 APRIL 1993
  10:00
  GREETINGS

  Mikhail Narinsky
  Deputy Director, Institute of Universal History, Academy of Sciences
  Chairman
  
  Valerii Shamshurov
  Deputy Chairman, Russian State Committee on Federations and Nationalities
  
  Haim Bar-Lev
  His Excellency, The Israeli Ambassador to Russia
  
  Gabriel Gorodetsky
  Director, The Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University
  
  Ivan Kovalchenko
  Academic Secretary, Department of History, Russian Academy of Sciences
  
  

  OPENING LECTURE

  Irving Cotler
  Law Faculty, McGill University
  The Soviet Union and Soviet Jewry: The Dynamics of Interaction
  

  11:45-12:15
  Coffee Break

   

  12:15-14:15
  THE LEGACY OF THE TSARIST PERIOD AND THE REVOLUTION

  Steven Zipperstein
  Program in Jewish Studies, Stanford University
  Chairman and Commentator
  
  Shaul Stampfer
  Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Russian Jewry: Geographic Mobility and Social Change
  
  Abraham Ascher
  Center for Jewish Studies, City University of New York
  Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907
  
  John Klier
  Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London
  Were the Jews a Little Nation in Revolutionary Russia: A Response to I. Shafarevich's Russophobia
  
  Viktor Kelner
  Jewish University, St. Petersburg
  Commentator
  

  14:15-15:45
  Lunch

   

  15:45-17:30
  SOVIET POLICY TOWARD THE JEWS

  Abraham Ben-Yaacov
  The Jewish Agency
  Chairman and Commentator
  
  Naomi Blank
  Department of History, Bar Ilan University
  Redefining the Jewish Question from Lenin to Gorbachev: Terminology or Ideology?
  
  Igor Krupnik
  Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
  Soviet Ethnic and Cultural Policy Toward the Jews
  
  Bob Weinberg
  Department of History, Swarthmore College
  Birobidzhan and the Solution of the Jewish Question
  
  Allan L. Kagedan
  Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, Carleton University
  Soviet Policy Toward Jews in the Aftermath of World War II
  
  Yaacov Ro'i
  The Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University
  Commentator
  
  

  ---

• TUESDAY, 27 APRIL 1993
  10:00-11:30
  WORLD WAR II AND THE HOLOCAUST

  Paul Ritterband
  Center for Jewish Studies, City University of New York
  Chairman
  
  Mordechai Altshuler
  Department of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Distinctive Features of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
  
  John Garrard
  Department of Russian and Slavic Languages, University of Arizona
  Vasilii Grossman from The Black Book to Life and Fate
  
  Nina Petrova
  Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences
  The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee: Reality and Fiction
  
  11:30-11:45
  Coffee Break

   

  11:45-13:00
  JEWS IN SOVIET SOCIETY

  Solomon Bruk
  Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  Chairman and Commentator
  
  Mark Tolts
  Department of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Trends in Soviet Jewish Demography Since World War II
  
  Natalia Yukhneva
  Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  St. Petersburg
  Russian Jews: A Subethnic Community?
  
  Mikhail Chlenov
  Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  The Idea of Zionism and the Jewish National Movement in the 1990s
  
  13:00-14:30
  Lunch

   

  14:30-16:00
  JEWISH RELIGION IN THE SOVIET UNION

  Mikhail Volodarsky
  The Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University
  Chairman
  
  David Fishman
  Department of Jewish History, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
  Judaism in the USSR, 1917-1930
  
  Yaacov Ro'i
  The Cummings Center for Russian Studies, Tel Aviv University
  The Jewish Religion in the Postwar Years
  
  Ada Rapoport-Albert
  Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London
  Habad-Lubavitch Leadership of the Admor, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in the late 1920s
  
  Mordechai Altshuler
  Department of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Commentator
  
  16:00-16:30
  Coffee Break

   

  16:30-18:00
  THE ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN CAMPAIGN AND THE "DOCTORS' PLOT"

  Lev Bezymensky
  Novoe Vremia
  Chairman and Commentator
  
  Elena Levina and Vladimir Yesakov
  Institute of Russian History and Institute of Natural Sciences,
  Russian Academy of Sciences
  The Struggle Against Cosmopolitanism and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Sciences
  
  Rudolf Pikhoia
  Russian Archives Committee
  The "Doctors' Plot": New Sources
  
  Aleksandr Lokshin
  Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
  Soviet Citizen's Response to the "Doctors' Plot"
  
  18:30
  Reception
  Restaurant, Hotel Uzkoe

   

  ---

• WEDNESDAY, 28 APRIL 1993
  10:00-11:30
  CULTURE AND THE ARTS

  Nurith Schleifman
  The Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University
  Chairperson
  
  David Roskies
  Department of Jewish Literature, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
  The Re-education of Der Nister, 1922-1929
  
  Velvel Chernin
  Department of Yiddish Studies, Bar Ilan University
  Jewish Culture and Press Prior to Glasnost
  
  Dmitri Segal
  Department of Russian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Russian and Hebrew Literature in Cross Mirrors
  
  Valerii Engel
  Association of Judaica and Jewish Culture, Moscow
  Commentator
  
  11:30-11:45
  Coffee Break

   

  11:45-13:15
  SOVIET JEWISH EMIGRATION

  Baruch Gur
  The Jewish Agency
  Chairman and Commentator
  
  Yosef Govrin
  Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  The Genesis of the Struggle for Soviet Jewry: Repercussions for Israeli-Soviet Relations
  
  Minton Goldman
  Department of Political Science, Northeastern University
  United States Foreign Policy and Soviet Jewish Emigration from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
  
  Steven Rosefielde
  Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Russia's Economic Future: The Calculus of Jewish Emigration
  
  13:15-14:30
  Lunch

   

  14:30-16:00
  QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY

  Rashid Kaplanov
  Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of Sciences
  Chairman
  
  Fran Markowitz
  Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University
  Emigration, Immigration and Culture Change: Towards a Transnational "Russian" Jewish Community?
  
  Michael Zand
  Department of Asian and African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Non-Ashkenazi Patterns of Jewish Identity in the USSR and the CIS
  
  Vladimir Shapiro
  Jewish Research Centre, Moscow
  Jewish Consciousness in the USSR
  
  Valerii Cherviakov
  Jewish Research Centre, Moscow
  Commentator
  
  16:00-16:30
  Coffee Break

   

  16:30-18:30
  ROUNDTABLE: ARCHIVAL SOURCES ON JEWISH TOPICS

  Yefim Pivovar
  Russian State Humanities University
  Chairman
  
  Sergey Mironenko
  The State Archives of the Russian Federation
  
  Igor Lebedev
  Department of History and Records, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  
  Yevgenii Starostin
  Russian State Humanities University
  
  Victor Knor
  Russian State Humanities University
  
  Kyrill Andersen
  Russian Centre for Preservation and Study of Documents on Contemporary History