1998 - 1999

Public Lectures 1998-1999

The Drive to Refurbish the Past: Romanian Nationalists and the Holocaust download 
Randolph L. Braham, City University of New York
co-sponsored by the Nationalism Studies Department and the Múlt és Jövő Jewish Quarterly

Being Jewish in Post-Communist Russia and Ukraine Today: Preliminary Results of a Study in Eight Cities
Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Physical Characteristics of the Jews at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 
Klaus Hoedl, Universitaet Graz, Austria
co-sponsored by the Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies

Jewish or written by Jews? Central European Jewish Literature in the 20th Century
Ivan Sanders, Columbia University & State University of New York

Russian Jewish Literature (Jewish literature in Russian): Possible Approaches and Criteria 
Shimon Markish, Geneva University, Switzerland

American Jews and the US Political System
Barry Kosmin, Jewish Policy Research Institute, London

Jews as Magyarizers of Alien Surnames in 20th Century Hungary
Victor Karady, Centre de Sociologie de l'Education et de la Culture, Paris

The Third Pillar. Toward a European Jewish Identity
Diana Pinto, Political Directorate of the Council of Europe

National Communism and Jewish Politics:
The Case of Moses Rosen, the Chief-Rabbi of the Romanian Jews
Leon Volovici, Hebrew University, Jerusalem