JGSGB, jointly with Hebrew College, is offering two exciting programs
this month.
The first one is this coming Thursday at 8 pm at Temple Emanuel. The
second is next Sunday at 3:30 pm at Hebrew College. For details, please
go to the JGSGB website (jgsgb.org).
Both programs are free and open to the public, but to ensure a seat, advance
registration is required for the Sunday program at Hebrew College.
Register here
(register.jgsgb.org).
Jay Sage
Electronic Communications Chair
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB)
email: email [at] jgsgb.org
website: http://jgsgb.org
Lecture 1: November 12
Culture Wars: Litvaks vs. Galizianers in Eastern Europe
Temple Emanuel, 8:00 pm
Eastern Europe, home to 80% of the ancestors of American Jews, was an
area of diverse
religious practices, political ideologies, Yiddish pronunciation,
foods, customs, and dress. Some of this diversity carried over to
America, but it has faded in the post-immigrant generations. This talk
will explore the differences among Eastern European Jews and the
stereotypes to which they gave rise, illustrating the richness and
vitality of a civilization that continues to inform Jewish life in
Europe, the Americas and Israel.
Lecture 2: November 15
A Century of Ambivalence: Jews, Soviets and Russians
Hebrew College, 3:30 pm
During the course of a century or more, Russian Jewry experienced
pogroms, two World Wars, two revolutions, purges, Communism, the
Holocaust and Stalin's anti-Semitism, but also experienced
unprecedented social, political and vocational mobility. Who were these
Russian Jews? Prior to the 19th century, they were Polish, Lithuanian
and Eastern European Jews until the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was
carved up by its more powerful neighbors. In 1900, 5.2 million Jews
lived in the Soviet Empire; today, they number about 500,000.
Professor Zvi Gitelman is the Tisch Professor of
Judaic Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of
Michigan where he has won major teaching awards. Professor Gitelman
also served as Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and
Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the
University. He is the author of Ethnicity or Religion? The Evolution of
Jewish Identities, and A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and
the Soviet Union since 1881. He has written or edited 14 books and
written over 100 articles.
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