MONDAY MARCH 27 YIVO FACULTY SEMINAR BY DR. KAREN ROSENBERG ON MEMOIRS OF SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARIES

[Fruma Mohrer]

Dear Colleagues in East European and Slavic Studies

I am writing to invite you to the next YIVO Faculty and Graduate Seminar in Jewish Studies, sponsored by the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies and the YIVO Archives and taking place this coming Monday, March 27 a 6:30 pm at the Center for Jewish History.

The seminar  will be given by Dr. Karen Rosenberg  on the topic of How to Be a Socialist-Revolutionary: Memoirs of Prison and Escape as a Source of Models and Norms. 

The focus of the seminar will be memoirs written by Menakhem-Mendel Rosenbaum and Grigorij Gershuni.  The moderator will be Dr. Allan Nadler, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Drew University.

Dr. Rosenberg's presentation will include bibliographic and archival sources used in her research, including Russian and Yiddish language sources.

The seminar will take place in the Kovno Room at the Center for Jewish History on Monday, 15 West 16th Street, New York, March 27, 2006 at 6:30 pm.  From 6 to 6:30 participants will have the opportunity to meet with Dr. Rosenberg and with faculty and graduate students.  A formal invitation appears below.

Dr. Karen Rosenberg  holds a doctorate in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University. She is an Independent Scholar, a writer and a literary, film and theater critic. 

As an Independent Scholar, Dr. Rosenberg is writing a series of essays on symbols in cultural history. She is currently investigating the symbol of the prison in the memoirs of some Russian revolutionaries. She has often written on the memoir as a genre between literature and history.

Dr Rosenberg has contributed to a number of scholarly writings on the subject of the Jewish memoir, to Geteilte Erinnerung – Generationen des Exils, and Yiddish and the Left [ed. Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov]. Her article on the memoir of Menakhem-Mendel Rosenbaum will appear this year in the German journal Archiv fur die Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit.

Please note that because of limited seating advance registration is required. Please rsvp by writing to fmohrer at yivo.cjh.org or by calling 212-294-6143. The seminar, which focuses on research done in the YIVO Archives and Library,  is open to all faculty and graduate students in the tri-state area. The purpose of the seminar is to stimulate serious discussion about new topics of research in Jewish Studies.



I hope that we will have the honor of your presence at this or some future YIVO Faculty Seminar this semester.



Best wishes,



Fruma Mohrer

Chief Archivist

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011

212-294-6143

fax: 212-292-1892

















The Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies



and the



YIVO Archives



Invite You



to a



Faculty and Graduate Seminar in Jewish Studies



at the



Center for Jewish History

15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011




Monday, March 27, 2006 at 6:30 pm






Dr. Karen Rosenberg, Writer and Independent

Scholar



Topic: How to Be a Socialist-Revolutionary: Memoirs of Prison and Escape as a Source of Models and Norms



Individual and Collective Resistance to Tsarist Autocracy in the Memoirs of Two Russian-Jewish Revolutionaries, Menakhem- Mendel Rosenbaum and Grigorij Gershuni



Moderator: Dr. Allan Nadler, Professor of Religious Studies; Director, Jewish Studies Program, Drew University, Madison, NJ



Address:  Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, Kovno Room. 



Meet with Faculty and Graduate Students and refreshments at 6 pm. Seminar begins at 6:30 pm.



Advance registration required.  Open to Faculty and graduate students or by invitation. Call 212-294-6143 or email  fmohrer at yivo.cjh.org <mailto:fmohrer at yivo.cjh.org> .

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