Presentations at Conferences
& Invited Lectures
“The Petrograd Jewish Community in 1917”
International Conference: The Historical Fate of Russian Jewry
Moscow. December 1989
“The Present Situation of Leningrad Jewry”
Study Day: The Situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union and the Absorption of Soviet Immigrants in Israel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. April 23, 1990
“The Response of the Soviet Press to the Middle East Crisis of 1967 and the Six Day War”
Study Day: The Response of the Press in the Jewish Diaspora to the Middle East Crisis of 1967 and the Six Day War
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. May 13, 1992
“The Liquidation of the Remnants of Jewish Life in Leningrad in the Late 1930s”
Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies,
Jerusalem. June 23, 1993
“The Jewish Minority in Leningrad, 1917-1939”
Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Cambridge University. March 25-27, 1995
“The Opening of Russian Archives: Discoveries, Expectations and Disappointments in Jewish Historiography”
Eighteenth Congress of the Society for Slavonic and East-European Studies,
Tel-Aviv University. May 1995
“The Leningrad Jewish Community in the 1920s,”
Twenty Seventh National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Washington DC. October 26-29, 1995
“Religious Reform: An Option for the Jews of Russia in the First Quarter of the 20th century? Example of St. Petersburg-Leningrad”
Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies
Jerusalem. August 3, 1997
“'Tevye the Milkman' – A Mirror of the Russian Revolution: The Two Worlds of Shalom-Aleichem”
Seventh Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies. Sefer
Korolev (Moscow). January-February 2000
“Restitution of Synagogues to Jewish Communities in the CIS – Problems and Achievements”
Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies
Jerusalem. August 2001
“Jewish Samizdat in Leningrad in the 1980's: Leningrad Jewish Almanac”
International Conference: Centers of the Zionists Movement in Russia: History and Culture
Moscow. October 2001
“The Dubnov’s Theory of Autonomism and the Practice in the Commonwealth of Independent States”
Study Day: Shimon Dubnov as Historian and Public Figure. In Commemoration of Sixty Years of Dubnov’s Murder by the Nazis
Jerusalem. December 2001
"The Synagogues of the Former Soviet Union: Past and Present"
Invited lecture
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
Brandeis University.
October 1, 2002
"The Synagogues of the Former Soviet Union: Past and Present"
Invited lecture
Jewish Theological Seminary
New York. October, 2002
"Representatives of the Joint Distribution Committee at the Polish-Soviet Front: Who Murdered Professor Friedlaender and Bernard Rabbi Cantor?"
Tenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies. Sefer
Moscow. January 30, 2003
"The Conservation and Restoration of Synagogues and Jewish Historical Sites in the FSU"
International Conference: The Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe.
Prague. April, 25, 2004
April 24-25, 2004
"The 'Joint' in Russia, the USSR, and the CIS: A Retrospective"
Invited lecture
The Mayrock Center
Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
November 17, 2004
"New Light on the Murder of Professor Israel Friedlaender and Rabbi Bernard Cantor"
Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies
Jerusalem. August 1, 2005
"Jews in the Big City: The Case of Leningrad"
Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewry.
International Conference: Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewry
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
December 29, 2005
"Struggle of Soviet Jewry for Immigration to Israel and for National Survival"
Study Day: Jews of the Soviet Union and Prisoners of Zion: The National Struggle since the Foundation of the State of Israel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem & the Central Zionist Archive
Jerusalem. January 12, 2005
"A Jewish Agronomist in the USSR: The Agro-Joint Deputy Director Samuil Lubarsky"
International Conference: To the Land! 200 Years of Jewish Agricultural Settlement
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Diaspora Museum (Tel Aviv)
June 20, 2005
"Pecklach from the Joint. A AJJDC Post-WWII Parcel Program for Soviet Jewry: Its Dimension, Outreach and Impact"
Rabbi Harold D. Hahn Memorial Fellowship
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.
Cincinnati. February 14, 2006
"Restoring Courage to Jewish Hearts: Frank Rosenblatt's Mission in Siberia in 1919"
Drench Memorial Lecture
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
New York. April 27, 2006
"A Jewish Postal Romance: Secret Aid of American Jews to Soviet Jewry after World War II"
Invited lecture
Taube Center for Jewish Studies Center for Russian and East European and Eurasian Studies
Stanford University. May 25, 2006
"I Seek My Brethren: Parcels for Soviet Jews, 1952-1967"
International Conference: Russia-Israel: 15Years of Re-established Diplomatic Relations
Diplomatic Academy
Moscow. October 13, 2006
"Assisting Jews in Their Struggle: A Package Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and of the Israeli "Nativ" for Jews of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe"
International Conference: Jewish Emigration from Russia, 1881-2005
International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies
Moscow, December, 2006
"'I Don't Know Whom to Thank' or 'Take Your Rags Back,'"
Thirty-Eighth Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
San Diego, December 2006
"The Financial Basis of the Jewish Movement for Immigration to Israel," Conference: The Jewish National Movement in the USSR: Awakening and Struggle, 1967-1989
Nevzlin Center for Russian and East European Jewry
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem – Tel-Aviv, December 26-28, 2007
"The AJJDC Vis-a-Vis Russian Jewry, Admiral Kolchak and the American Government: Frank Rosenblatt's Mission in Siberia"
Thirty Ninth AJS Conference
Toronto, December 2007
"Exhibition 'The Jews of Struggle' at the Tel-Aviv Diaspora Museum"
Fifteenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies. Sefer
Moscow, January 29-30, 2008
"I Seek my Brethren from Afar: Problems of Aid by Remote Control. The AJJDC in Russia"
Conference: Jewish Relief Organizations in pre-WWII Europe: A Comparative Perspective
New York University
New York, April 15-16, 2008
"Where Else to Look for the History of Jewish Saint Petersburg"?
International Conference: In search of Jewish History
(100 years of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society) International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies & Judaica Center of the St. Petersburg European University
St. Petersburg, June 8-10, 2008
"Life of Leningrad Refuseniks as Reflected in their Memoirs and Interviews"
Sixteenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies. Sefer
Moscow, February 3-5, 2009
"The Life of Refuseniks in Leningrad of the 1980s, as Remembered by the Protagonists"
International Conference: The Expanse of Russia in Israel
Tulane University,
New Orleans, February 15-16, 2009
"Building, Conservation, Project Conception, Organization and Administration of Jewish Communal Property"
Jewish Heritage Seminar: Care, Conservation, Management and Use of Jewish Historical Properties
Jewish Community Center
Bratislava, March 17 – 19, 2009
"The Center for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1956-2000"
International Conference: St. Petersburg-Israel. An Intellectual Dialogue
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Science (Kunskamera)
St. Petersburg, October 5-7, 2009
"Underground Jewish Studies in Leningrad in the 1980s"
International Conference: Soviet Jewish Studies: History, Problems, Persons
Russian State University of Humanities
Moscow, December 14-16, 2009
"JDC's Encounter with Russia during World War I and the Revolution"
Forty Second Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Boston, December 19-21, 2010
"The Character of the Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union"
23rd Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies "Religion and Politics"
Canberra, February 13-14, 2011
"JEWISH MOVEMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION: WHAT WAS ITS ESSENCE?"
The Power of Peoplehood: The Soviet Jewish Journey. An International Conference Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Collapse of the Soviet Union
New York, November 9, 2011
"The Emergence of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE): Historical Circumstances and Ideology of the Founders"
The OSE Centennial Conference
Paris, June 11, 2012
"Jewish Aristocracy: Rabbi David Tevel Katzenellenbogen, Chief Rabbi of St. Petersburg (1847-1930) - 16 Generations 'before and after'"
Symposium on Genealogy and Family History of Jews in Russia
St. Petersburg, September 10-12, 2012
"The Joint Distribution Committee, American Government, Jewish Community, Soviet Authorities and Russian Jewish Public, 1920-1924"
The 44th Conference of the American Association for Jewish Studies
Chicago, December 16-18, 2012
"Circumstances of the Emergence of the Jewish Healthcare Society (OZE) in 1912"
THE SIXTEENTH WORLD CONGRESS OF JEWISH STUDIES
Jerusalem, July 28 – August 1, 2013
"Distant Control problems in the AJJDC's History. Examle of Russia and the Soviet Union"
XXI International Sefer Conference for Jewish Studies
Moscow, February 3-5, 2014
"Tel-Aviv – Moscow – Tomsk. The Evacuation Reflected in the Memoirs of a Former Palestine Communist Lea Trachtman-Palchan"
Histories, Memories and Legacies: Jewish Refugees and Evacuees in the Soviet Union during the Second World War
Jerusalem, June 22-23, 2014
"Was St. Petersburg a Center of Yiddish Culture?"
Warsaw, St Petersburg and Moscow: Three Cities of Yiddish
Oxford, August 5-7, 2014
"The JDC and the Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims"
JDC at 100 Conference
New York, September 7-8, 2014
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