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CONTACT: The Movement and Meeting of Jewish People and Artifacts across Cold-War Boundaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 9 – 11, 2023 at the Center<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College is proud to announce its first scholarly symposium, funded with generous support from the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation and organized in partnership with the Jewish Studies Program at Purdue University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The symposium is the second in a two-part series, the aim of which is to publish an edited volume featuring contributions from the participants (and perhaps a few more!). The first symposium<\/a> was held in May, 2022 at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor<\/a> (Steel Museum).<\/p>\n

\n

Keynote Address: Ann Hagedorn<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

October 9 at 6:00 PM (Hybrid: Friends Hall and Zoom)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Register for Zoom in Advance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Acclaimed author and journalist,\u00a0Ann Hagedorn<\/a>,\u00a0will speak about her latest book, Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away<\/em><\/a> (Simon & Schuster, 2021).<\/p>\n

\"Cover<\/a>Born in Iowa, schooled in science at Columbia University, and as American as baseball, George Koval was the ultimate secret agent. Because he had security clearances to the Manhattan Project, he was able to pass invaluable classified information that helped Soviet scientists produce an atomic bomb years earlier than US experts had expected. The FBI only identified him several years after he had returned to the USSR, and in 2007, Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded him Russia\u2019s highest civilian honor for his contribution to the Soviet atomic program.<\/em><\/p>\n

This event is free and open to the public.
\nLight refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n

\n

Symposium<\/h4>\n

In the first symposium, scholars offered 20-minute presentations of their works in progress. At our Fall 2023 symposium, scholars will discuss and offer suggestions for how to improve upon pre-circulated chapter drafts.<\/p>\n

The discussions will take place in the Special Collections Reading Room in the Peter P. Mercer Learning Commons (LC-216) are open to the public but will not be made available online. The schedule and list of papers will be made available in the near future.<\/p>\n

Organizers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jacob Ari Labendz, Ramapo College, NJ, USA<\/p>\n

Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1, Purdue University, IN, USA<\/p>\n

Participating Scholars<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel<\/p>\n

Zuzanna Dziuban, Institute of Cultural History and Theatre Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n

Amy Fedeski, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada [not attending]<\/p>\n

Brian Goodman, Arizona State University, AZ, USA<\/p>\n

Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem<\/p>\n

Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA<\/p>\n

Boris Morozov, Tel Aviv University, Israel<\/p>\n

Kunduz Niiazova, Tel Aviv University, Israel<\/p>\n

D\u00f3ra Pataricza, \u00c5bo Akademi University in Turku, Finland<\/p>\n

Anat Plocker, Stockton University, NJ, USA<\/p>\n

Ran Zwigenberg, PennState, PA, USA<\/p>\n

Zohar Segev, University of Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n

Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski, Polish Academy of Science, Poland<\/p>\n

Jonathan Zisook, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA<\/p>\n

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Tentative Schedule<\/h4>\n

Monday, October 9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

16:30\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome Reception (York Room)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

18:00\u00a0\u00a0 Keynote Address: Ann Hagedorn, Sleeper Agent<\/em> (Friends Hall)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

20:00\u00a0\u00a0 Dinner, TBD<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9:00 \u00a0 \u00a0 Breakfast, York Room (Mansion)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9:40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome to the Center (GC)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10:00\u00a0\u00a0 Kunduz Niiazova<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA Modern Kyrgyz Dream of the Soviet Kyrgyz-Jewish Intellectuals and Artists Beyond the \u2018Iron Curtain\u2019\u201d
\nRespondents: D\u00f3ra Pataricza and Anat Plocker<\/span><\/p>\n

10:30 \u00a0 Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFostering Postwar Jewish Community from Slovakia to Canada\u201d
\nRespondents: Kunduz Niiazova and Anat Plocker<\/span><\/p>\n

11:00\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

11:15\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Jacob Ari Labendz<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCzech-Jewish Cemeteries as Sites of Cooperation and Conflicting Priorities\u201d
\nRespondents: Zohar Segev and Ran Zwigenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

11:45\u00a0\u00a0 Jonathan Dekel-Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWandering Jews as Cold-War Pawns
\nRespondents: Boris Morozov and Ran Zwigenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

12:30\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch, York Room (Mansion)<\/strong><\/p>\n

13:30\u00a0\u00a0 Visit to Art Museum, \u201cNotes on Anarchaeology. Forgery, Iconoclasm, Displacement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:30\u00a0\u00a0 Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCold War and Cultural Restitution: The Hebrew University Restitution Missions in Postwar Eastern Europe\u201d
\nRespondents: Brian Goodman and Jacob Ari Labendz<\/span><\/p>\n

15:00\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Shaul Kelner<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Orthodox Rabbinic Travel to Aid Soviet Jews\u201d
\nRespondents: Boris Morozov and D\u00f3ra Pataricza<\/span><\/p>\n

15:30\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

15:45\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>D\u00f3ra Pataricza and Vera \u00c1brah\u00e1m<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Szeget to Jerusalem: the Arduous Travel of Imm\u00e1nuel L\u00f6w\u2019s Library\u201d
\nRespondents: Brian Goodman and Jacob Ari Labendz<\/span><\/p>\n

16:15\u00a0\u00a0 Boris Morozov<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLinks Between the State of Israel and Soviet Jews during the cold War and the Struggle for Aliya\u201d
\nRespondents: Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski and Jonathan Dekel-Chen<\/span><\/p>\n

16:45\u00a0 \u00a0Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

17:00\u00a0\u00a0 Anat Plocker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018A Dream of Belonging\u2019: The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland\u201d
\nRespondents: Shaul Kelner and Jonathan Dekel-Chen<\/span><\/p>\n

17:30\u00a0\u00a0 Return to Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n

18:40\u00a0\u00a0 Dinner, TBD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Breakfast, Alumni Lounge<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Zohar Segev<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDiaspora Nationalism, Migration, and Cultural Revival: American Jewry and the Challenge of European Jewish Diaspora in the Shadow of the Holocaust and Cold War\u201d
\nRespondents: Yoni Zisook and Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n

10:15\u00a0 \u00a0Yoni Zisook<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPassover for the Passed Over: Jewish Religious Life in the People\u2019s Republic of Poland, 1968-1989\u201d
\nRespondents: Kunduz Niiazova and Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko<\/span><\/p>\n

10:45\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Ran Zwigenberg and Zuzana Dziuban<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHolocaust Ashes on the Move: Incinerated Human Remains as Objects <\/em>of Global Institutional Exchange\u201d
\nRespondents: Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski and Zohar Segev<\/span><\/p>\n

11:30\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Brian Goodman<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Behind a Star: Philip Roth, Rita Klimov\u00e1, and the American Reception of Ji\u0159\u00ed Weil\u201d
\nRespondents: Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko and Yoni Zisook<\/span><\/p>\n

12:00\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

12:10\u00a0 \u00a0Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJ\u00f3zef Lebenbaum \u2013 ‘a rooted cosmopolitan’ in Sweden, 1969-1989\u201d
\nRespondents: Shaul Kelner and Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n

12:30\u00a0 \u00a0Packed Lunches<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guests are invited to join the Ramapo Pride Fest, which will run until 4:00 pm<\/p>\n

—\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Amy Fedeski
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When a Refusenik Becomes a Refugee: American Jews\u2019 Interactions with Soviet Jewish Migrants during the 1970s”
\nDr. Fedeski cannot attend the symposium and we will not be discussing this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"People<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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