Jewish Memory and Culture: 1945-Present

A Graduate Student Conference at

 

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

 

Room, 9204

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 USA

 

April 12, 2018

 

 

Breakfast/Registration
9:00 am, Room 9204

 

Opening Remarks

9:15 am, Jonathan Zisook and Rebecca Pollack

Panel I
9:30-11:00 am
Artistic and Cultural Representations in Poetry, Literature, and Music

 

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach (University of Pennsylvania): “Form(ing) as Resistance, Reclaiming, and Witness – A Sonnet”

 

Roni Masel (NYU): “Rewriting Origins: Aaron Zeitlin’s Adaptation of the Esterke Legend before and after WWII”

 

Barrie Gelles (CUNY Graduate Center): “‘A Shtetl iz Amereke’: Representations of New York City Jewish Spaces in Broadway Musicals”

 

Daniel Bloch (CUNY Graduate Center): “‘I am dust from your wind’: Diasporic Identity in Three Songs by Jorge Drexler”

 

 

Panel II
11:15 am-12:45 pm

Politics and Theory across the Globe

 

Michael Rom (Yale): “The Cold War in the Brazilian Yiddish Press, 1950-1954”

 

Eva Gurevich (Brandeis): “The Morally-Blind Secular Prophets: Nathan Alterman and Moshe Shamir in the Land of Israel Movement After 1967”

 

Judah Isseroff (Princeton): “Hannah Arendt and her Stinging Jewish Critics”

 

Jonathon Catlin (Princeton): “The Holocaust in Theory: Re-Probing the Limits of Representation”

 

Lunch (for Graduate Students and participants)

12:50-1:50 pm, Room, 5414

 

 

Panel III
2:00-3:30 pm
The Holocaust and Jewish Memory

 

Myriam Gerber (Concordia University): “Amnesiac Sites of Memory: A Case Study of a ‘Forgotten’ Mass Grave in Germany”

 

Kimberly Cheng (NYU): “A House Is Not a Home: Encounters between Shanghai’s German Jewish Refugee Children and their Chinese Neighbors during WWII”

 

Rebecca Pollack (CUNY Graduate Center): “Rethinking the Counter-monument: Great Britain’s Planned National Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center”

Jonathan Zisook (CUNY Graduate Center): “Between Ruin and Rededication: Polish Synagogues and the Jewish Space”

 

 

 

Panel IV
3:45-5:15 pm
American Jewish Culture, Religion, and History

 

Yitzchak Schwartz (NYU): “Remembering the Lower East Side in Jewish Academia, 1951- Present”

 

Eric Morgenson (SUNY Albany): “Benevolent Victimization: Comparing Jewish and African American Views of the Great Depression at the end of the Civil Rights Coalition 1963-1970”

 

Oskar Czendze (UNC-Chapel Hill): “Galitzianer and Neo-Galitzianer in America: Making a Homeland in the Virtual and Real”

 

Gabriel Weinstein (Brandeis): “Prayer Books for a New Paradigm: Gender and Jewish Particularity in Jewish Renewal Liturgy”

Panel V
5:30-6:30 pm
Navigating a Career in Jewish Studies

 

Moderator: Francesca Bregoli (CUNY Graduate Center)

Sara Reguer (CUNY Brooklyn College)

Paul Radensky (Museum of Jewish Heritage)

David Sclar (Princeton)

 

Final Remarks and Reception
6:30 pm