MONDAY, May 5

Logan Hall, Terrace Room, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th St.

9:30 am

GREETINGS

David B. Ruderman
Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Samuel H. Preston
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

ROUNDTABLE ON LITERATURE AND HISTORY IN THE STUDY OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY

Chair: Carol Avins, Rutgers University/CAJS

Olga Litvak, Princeton University/CAJS

Israel Bartal, Hebrew University/CAJS

Eugenia Prokop-Janiec, Jagiellonian University

PERFORMANCES

Chair: Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania

Alyssa Quint, Harvard University/CAJS
The Currency of Yiddish: Jews, Money, and Modernity in the 19th-Century Yiddish Drama

Michael Steinlauf, Gratz College/CAJS
Jozio Grojseszyk: A 19th-Century Jewish City Slicker on the Polish Popular Stage

Jeffrey Shandler , Rutgers University
Staging the Shtetl: The Memory Projects of Yaffa Eliach

Respondent: Jack Kugelmass, Arizona State University/CAJS

YIDDISH AND YIDDISHISM

Chair: Cecile Kuznitz, Georgetown University/CAJS

Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania/CAJS
The Question of Esther in Yiddish Poems

Samuel Kassow, Trinity College/CAJS
Interwar Vilna as a Jewish Civil Society

Marcus Moseley, Johns Hopkins University/CAJS
Persecution and the Art of Autobiography:
The 'Desk-Drawer' Memoirs of Meir Viner

Respondent: Anita Norich, University of Michigan

Dinner (by invitation)
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, 420 Walnut Street

TUESDAY, May 6

TRADITION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Chair: Magda Teter, Wesleyan University/CAJS

Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University
Reexamining the Demographic Transition of East European Jewry

Adam Teller, University of Haifa/CAJS
Tradition and Crisis? 18th-Century Critiques of the Polish-Lithuanian Rabbinate in Social
and Cultural Context

Marcin Wodzinski, Wroclaw University
Similar or Exceptional? Haskalah in Congress Poland and its East European Context, 1815-1864

Respondent: Ada Rapoport-Albert, University College London/CAJS

JEWS AND OTHER EAST EUROPEANS

Chair: Joshua Shanes, University of Wisconsin/CAJS

Rachel Manekin, Hebrew University/CAJS
Hebrew in the Service of Polonization: The Galician Newspaper Ha-Mazkir

Marcos Silber, Tel Aviv University/CAJS
Empowerment or Disempowerment: Jews and Minority Rights in Lithuania During World War I

Oleg Budnitskii, Institute for Russian History, Moscow
Russian Liberals and the Jews: 1917-20

Respondent: Moshe Rosman, Bar Ilan University/CAJS

Lunch Break

POLITICS AND CULTURE

Chair: Batsheva Ben-Amos, CAJS

Kenneth Moss, Johns Hopkins University/CAJS
Jewish Politics and Jewish Culture in the Age of Revolution,1917-1921

Joshua Zimmerman, Yeshiva University/CAJS
The Origins of the Bund's National Program Reconsidered

François Guesnet, Leipzig University/CAJS
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? The Political Culture of Eastern European Jews: Between 'Klal-Yisroel' and 'Doykeyt'

Respondent: Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania

Dinner and Tenth Anniversary Celebration (by invitation)
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 3417 Spruce St.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7

Logan Hall, Terrace Room, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th St.

VIOLENCE AND SELF-DEFENSE

Chair: Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania/CAJS

John Klier, University College London/CAJS
Painting the Pogroms: Visual Representation of the Pogrom Era in Russia, 1881-82

Gabriella Safran, Stanford University/CAJS
Martyrdom and Revenge: S. An-sky on Terror and the Jewish Response to Violence

David Engel, New York University/CAJS
On Being Lawful in a Lawless World: Jewish Diplomacy and the Trial of Scholem Schwarzbard

Respondent: Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania

ROUNDTABLE: RE-WRITING THE HISTORY OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWRY

Chair: Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan/CAJS

Gershon Hundert, McGill University/CAJS

Jonathan Frankel, Hebrew University/CAJS

Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University