JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Reminder of Special Lecture Sunday at 3:30

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If you attended Prof. Gitelman's first lecture last Thursday evening, you know that it will be a treat to hear him today (Sunday) at 3:30 at Hebrew College. Registration for the program has closed, but there may still be some seats available.

Jay Sage
Electronic Communications Chair
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB)
email: email [at] jgsgb.org
website:  http://jgsgb.org

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.