From Fruma Mohrer, Senior Archivist, YIVO: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents:
Ruth Gay Seminar in Jewish Studies Monday Nov 23, 2015 3:00pm RSVP Required: [email protected] or 212-294-6143 Admission: Free Presenter: Professor Daniel Heller, McGill University Title: Mobilizing the Shtetl: Betar and the Quest to Transform Small-Town Jewish Life in Interwar Poland Throughout the 1930s, Jewish political movements in Warsaw set out to transform the hearts and minds of Jewish youth in small towns across Poland. Among these urban activists were the leaders of Betar, the youth movement of Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Revisionist party. Armed with longstanding stereotypes about shtetl life, Betar leaders were certain that bringing “modernity” and “progress” to these towns would mobilize their youth for the Zionist cause. Drawing on YIVO’s collection of youth autobiographies from the 1930s, and previously unexamined correspondence between Betar’s headquarters in Warsaw and its small-town outposts, Daniel Heller (McGill University) reveals the tensions that arose between these urban activists and the young Jews they sought to transform. ________________________________ Daniel Kupfert Heller is an assistant professor of Jewish history in McGill University’s Department of Jewish Studies. His work appears in the Journal of Israeli History and a forthcoming volume of Kwartalnik Historii Żydów. He is currently completing a book manuscript based on his dissertation, “The Rise of the Zionist Right: Polish Jews and the Betar Youth Movement, 1922-1935.” __ 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] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
