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For two centuries, the majority of the world?s Jewish population was
centered in the Russian Empire. Why were Jews among the leaders of the
revolutionary movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries? Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein), Lev Kamenev (Rozenfeld), and
Grigorii Zinoviev (Gershon Apfelbaum) were prominent Bolsheviks, serving
alongside Lenin in the early days of Soviet power. Yet by the end of the
Soviet Union, Jews had abandoned revolutionary dreams and emigrated in
large numbers. What factors explain these population shifts and
changes?
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild is a Research Associate at the Davis
Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She writes
on women, gender, and Jewish history in Russia and the Soviet Union. Her
book, Equality and Revolution: Women?s Rights in the Russian Empire,
1905-1917 (University of Pittsburgh Press, June 2010) won Honorable
Mention for the Reginald Zelnik Prize of the American Association for
Slavic, East European and Eurasian History (ASEEES) for an outstanding
monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the field of
history, and Honorable Mention for the Heldt Prize of the Association for
Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) for the best book in Slavic/Eastern
European/Eurasian women's studies.
Spotlight -
Muriel Gillick on "Taking Family History Public: The Research Behind Her
Published Family Story". Muriel Gillick has written a book entitled
"Once They Had a Country". It is the account of her parents' experiences
as Kindertransport children from Germany. They were sent to a country in
continental Europe.
Muriel R. Gillick is a geriatrician, palliative care physician, and
writer. She sees patients at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a
multi-specialty group practice in Boston and surrounding communities, and
she is also a Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. Her scholarly
work focuses on ethical issues near the end of life and is conducted at
the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Institute/Harvard Medical School.
As an undergraduate history major at Swarthmore College, she developed
what would prove to be a life-long interest in German history, World War
II, and the refugee experience. Her forte is writing stories based on
real people and putting the narrative into a broader context. She used
the same technique in her four previous books on medical themes written
for a general audience as in "Once They Had a Country."
A flyer in Adobe PDF format is available from our website at
flyer.jgsgb.org.
We encourage you to print it out and post copies in places where you
think it would attract attendees, such as synagogues, community centers,
supermarkets, etc.
Upcoming
Programs
January 30 through March 26 (Hebrew College)
JGSGB Course "Foundations of Jewish Genealogical Research" at
Hebrew College
Details at
course.jgsgb.org;
enroll at
www.hebrewcollege.edu/events.
Sunday, February 26, 1:30 PM (Temple Emanuel)
Alan Shuchat
"Internal Jewish Migration to Agricultural Colonies in the Russian
Empire"
plus a 'spotlight' talk by Paul Adams
"Preserving Oral History Recordings and Audio Files"
Sunday, Marchy 25, 1:30 PM (Temple Emanuel)
Help Day: Research and Translation Assistance
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