From Fruma Mohrer, Chief Archivist, YIVO Dear Safranim,
I am pleased to inform you that the next YIVO Faculty and Graduate Seminar in Jewish Studies will take place on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. The seminar is titled:"Is Poland becoming a welcoming place for Jews?" and will consist of a discussion featuring Dr. Robert Cherry (Brooklyn College), co-editor of the recently released book, Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future by Robert Cherry and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); Dr. Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College), Respondent The seminar will begin at 6:30 pm, at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, 15 West 16th Street, Kovno Room. >From 6:00 to 6:30 participants will have the opportunity to meet with and speak to Professor Cherry and Dr. Aleksiun and to other faculty members, graduate students, professionals working in Jewish studies and independent scholars. At 6:30 the seminar will begin. Professor Cherry will highlight the book's findings: the psychological and historical reasons why Poles and Jews have such different remembrances of the war years; the stereotypes in Holocaust-related presentations, including anti-Polish stereotypes; the changing historiography in the last twenty years; and the changing attitudes and behavior of Poles since 1990. Professor Aleksiun will discuss what she believes has been a significant retreat in Poland over the last three years. She will compare the Polish response to Jan Gross' "Neighbors" in 2001 her contribution to Rethinking Poles and Jews to the response to "Fear" in 2006; and other evidence of a hardening of attitudes that have recently taken place. Robert Cherry is Professor of Economics at Brooklyn College. His main area of research is economic discrimination and inequality, reflecting his most recent books: Welfare Transformed: Universalizing Family Policies that Work (Oxford, 2007) and Who Gets the Good Jobs? Combating Race and Gender Disparities (Rutgers University Press, 2001). His publications on Jewish themes include "Contentious History: A Survey on Perceptions of Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust." POLIN 19 (2007); "Raoul Wallenberg: Savior of Hungarian Jewry?" Midstream 41(April 1995); Middleman Minority Theories: Their Implications for Black-Jewish Relations. Journal of Ethnic Studies 17(Spring 1990); and Discrimination: Its Economic Impact on Blacks, Women, and Jews ( Lexington Books, 1989). Dr. Natalia Aleksiun is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She received her Ph.d in History from the Department of History, Warsaw University in 2001. She is the author of a book entitled Dokad dalej? (Where to?) based on her doctoral dissertation on the Zionist movement in Poland after World War II. Her articles on Polish Jewish relations and on Jewish historiography have appeared in Polin, Gal Ed, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Yad Vashem Studies, Jews in Eastern Europe and Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego, among others. Dr. Aleksiun is also a doctoral student at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, at New York University. Because seating is limited in the Kovno Room, advance registration is required. The seminar is open to faculty and graduate students, professionals working in Jewish Studies, or by invitation. Please call 212-294-6143 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope that we will have the honor of your presence at the November 7th Seminar or at future sessions this fall. 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
