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From: Fruma Mohrer, Chief Archivist, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York Dear Ha-Safran Members, I am writing to invite you personally to the next YIVO Faculty Seminar in Jewish Studies to be given by Professor Samuel Moyn, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. Dr. Moyn will speak on "Pierre Vidal-Naquet and the Treblinka Affair: A Memorial Lecture" on Tuesday March 6, 2007 at 6:45 PM. in the Kovno Room at the Center for Jewish History. The seminar will be moderated by Professor Anson Rabinbach, Professor, History Department and Director, European Cultural Studies, Princeton University. This is the first of the YIVO Faculty and Graduate Seminars in Jewish Studies for the Spring 2007 semester. The series is sponsored by the YIVO Archives and the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. The purpose of the seminar is to give scholars doing research at YIVO the opportunity to share their new research with colleagues. The seminar is open to all faculty and graduate students in the tri-state area, to professionals working in Jewish Studies, or by invitation. Professor Moyn is author of A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (2005) and Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (2005). This talk, part of a larger study of the affair set off by the publication of Jean-François Steiner's "Treblinka" in 1966, will examine the circumstances in which French-Jewish intellectual Pierre Vidal-Naquet came to take the Holocaust as an academically pressing and morally important subject. Why did Vidal-Naquet, the child of parents deported from France to their death at Auschwitz, become activated into studying and writing about the topic at this precise moment in postwar history? Professor Rabinbach's publications include the forthcoming Nazi Germany and the Humanities (May 2007) and In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (1997). He is also the founder and editor of the journal, the New German Critique. The seminar will take place at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St in New York City, in the Kovno Room. From 6:00 to 6:45 participants will have the opportunity to meet with Professor Moyn and other faculty members, graduate students, independent scholars, and professionals working in Jewish studies. At 6:45 the seminar will begin. Because seating is limited in the Kovno Room, advance registration is required. Please call 212-294-6143 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope that we will have the honor of your presence at the March 6th Seminar or at future sessions this spring. 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 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
