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Family History Today: Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering Women

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

At first, aspiring Jewish men from Galicia, Lithuania, and elsewhere ventured to Padua University to study medicine when other schools across Europe refused their admission. Then, from the end of the eighteenth century onward, Jews from Galicia attended Habsburg universities—from Lemberg/Lwów and Kraków, to Vienna, Pest and Prague. Many nineteenth-century Jewish medics influenced Galician life beyond their profession, advocating educational,…

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Jewish Brick and Mortar in the Russian Capital: The Architectural Dialogue between the St. Petersburg Jewish Community and the Tsarist Metropolis

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

The Professor Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship and the Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship In this lecture, Dr. Vladimir Levin will consider the uneasy relationship between the architectural oeuvre of the Jewish community and the capital city of the Russian Empire. Although concentrating on St. Petersburg, the talk will address questions and problems that many Jewish communities in European and American cities…

Lecture: Visions of the Modern: Abstraction in the Postcolonial Middle East

NYU Silver Center 32 Waverly Place, New York, NY, United States

After 1945, abstract art exploded in the Arab world, announcing a new cultural renaissance. In this talk, Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor of Art History, NYU, will link the different varieties of Arab abstraction to their counterparts in the broader Middle East and in Europe—and discuss how these varieties served as vehicles for competing visions of Arab modernity rooted in histories…

Annual Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture: Mo Shaol agus mo Shaothar with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh

Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

The Annual Barra Ó Donnabháin Lecture will be given by internationally-renowned fiddler and the lead vocalist of Altan, Mairéad Ní­ Mhaonaigh, who is recognized as a leading exponent in the Donegal fiddle style, and is considered one of the foremost singers in the Irish language. Mairéad will be discussing her life and works. Lecture in Irish and English. Mairéad was born and raised in the…

The Rest of the Story: Finding your Family in Online Newspapers

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Janeen Bjork will share her search methodology using several case studies to illustrate the techniques of finding and preserving family items from online newspapers. She will discuss OCR (optical character recognition, the technology that allows newspapers to be searched online), and how to work around its significant failure rate. Other topics will include best practices for searching in popular newspaper…

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StrategEast Westernization Index 2020: Cross-country Analysis

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Join us for a presentation by Anatoly Motkin, founder and president of StrategEast. The StrategEast Westernization Index 2020 assesses the processes of adherence to Western values in post-Soviet countries outside of Russia across five dimensions: political, legal, economic, cultural, and lifestyle. This second edition of the Index, like the first one released in 2018, is the only report to analyze the fourteen…

Between Serialism and Suprematism: Nikolai Roslavets’s Modernist Music

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Leah Batstone (Hunter College, CUNY). The compositions of Nikolai Roslavets, one of many Ukrainian composers often mistaken for Russian, demonstrate the unique musical position of Ukraine in the history of early twentieth-century music. As a mediator between the compositional serialism of the Second Viennese School of…

Book Talk. A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas by Maxim D. Shrayer

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for a book talk with Maxim D. Shrayer, internationally acclaimed author of the memoirs Waiting for America and Leaving Russia and of the story collection Yom Kippur in Amsterdam. Shrayer’s new book of fiction, A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas, explores the lives of immigrants from Russia and the former USSR. A Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College, Shrayer is the winner of the 2007 National Jewish…

Lew Nussimbaum aka Essad Bey aka Kurban Said – Wanderer between Worlds

Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Born to a Jewish family in Kiev, raised in Baku, and converted to Islam in Berlin, Essad Bey’s orientalist writings reached a huge audience in the Weimar Republic. Although his novels and essays depicting life in locales such as Azerbaijan and the Caucasus helped shape notions of a mysterious and romantic East in the German public imagination, the Muslim community…