Mikhail Magaril’s exhibition Untold Stories of Russian History will be held at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, from March 21 to May 6, 2022. The exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between the Harriman Institute and the Russian-American Cultural Center (RACC) for the presentation of Russian immigrant artists in New York. Mikhail Magaril specializes in the artist’s handmade book. He firmly believes that every…

In this talk, Sergey Radchenko will explore the underlying motivations of Soviet and Russian foreign policies. Drawing on recently declassified documents, he will explain the relationship between Soviet foreign policy and domestic legitimacy, and trace continuities in Moscow’s policymaking between the Cold War and the present day Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School…

Zelig Kalmanovich (1885-1944) was a Yiddish linguist, translator, and a central member of YIVO's pre-war Vilna staff. Kalmanovich kept a vivid diary during his time in the Vilna Ghetto describing daily life, the hopes and efforts of the people to retain humanity, and his thoughts about the future of the Jewish people and Jewish culture. A new publication by the…

We are pleased to invite you to celebrate the premiere of The New Historia, featuring the book launch of Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration (Temple University Press, December 2021) by Rachel Schreiber, PhD, Executive Dean, Parsons School of Design. Book launch co-hosted by The Center for Jewish History and The New School's Historical Studies…

1014 space for ideas, in collaboration with the German Consulate General New York and Deutsches Haus at NYU, presents "No Body Is Closed: Discussing the Collective Self" a conversation between visual artist Cornelia Thomsen and renowned novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt, which will be moderated by Eric Banks, the Director of New York Institute for the Humanities. In this exchange,…