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The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce that the next Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies will take place on Sunday, June 21, 2009 at3 pm. Meet the faculty and refreshments at 3 pm. Seminar at 3:30 pm. RSVP required. Email [email protected] or call 212-294-6143. The Seminar will be given in the Kovno Room, Center for Jewish History,15 West 16th Street, New York. The presenter will be Dr. Alice Freifeld, Associate Professor in History at the University of Florida. Dr. Freifeld will focus on her current book project on Hungarian Jewry from 1945-1949. Freifeld is the author of "Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848-1914 and the recipient of the Barbara Jelavich book prize in Slavic studies. Dr. Freifeld is the current president of the Hungarian Studies Association. The presentation will concentrate on the conditions faced by Hungarian Jewish survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust, on the war crimes trials conducted, and in the wake of new anti-semitism, the widespread movement by Hungarian Jews to flee to displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany .In 1948-49 the borders were shut down, except for a last wave of illegal departure after the founding of Israel. Concentrating inBudapest, perhaps as many as 120,000 Jews would remain in the Communist era, 10 percent of whom fled in the revolution of 1956. The Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies is given at YIVO several times a year by scholars who have used the YIVO Archives and Library and who wish to share their research with the public. The seminar series is named in honor of the late historian and scholar Ruth Gay (1922-2006) and was made possible thanks to a major gift from the family of Ruth Gay. 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: [email protected] 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
