Public Lectures 2016-2017

October 18, 2016
A Forgotten Jewish Army and/or Soviet Proxies? Jewish Self-Defense and Counterinsurgent Paramilitarism in Civil War Ukraine, 1920-1924
Mihály Kálmán, Central European University

November 8, 2016
Depth of Focus: Ida, Son of Saul and the Refraction of Jewish Memory in Recent Central European Cinema
Jessie Labov, Central European University

December 6, 2016
2016 Jewish Studies Book Launch
with András Kovács, Andrea Pető, Ferenc Laczó, and Carsten Wilke

January 17, 2017
Yiddish Cultural Life in Post-Stalinist Moscow
Gennady Estraikh, New York University

February 7, 2017
The Polish-Jewish Relations in Poland after WWII (1945-1989)
Bożena Szaynok, Wrocław University

February 21, 2017
Elusive Souls: Jewish Converts and their Predicament in Early Modern Iberia
Javier Castaño, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid

March 7, 2017
Bentham and the Rabbi: A Story of Two Book Lovers
Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

May 25, 2017
The Jews and Other Peoples of Subcarpathian Rus’, 1919-1938
Paul Magocsi, University of Toronto