US Holocaust Memorial Museum Winter 2010 Calendar

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Winter 2010 Calendar

1. Events

- January 27: Jewish Life Behind the Walls: Illuminating Emanuel Ringelblum's Oyneg Shabes Archive
- February 4: Irène Némirovsky and the “Jewish Question” in Interwar France
- March 1: Reading the Signs of the Times: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1938
- March 18: “Jewish Revenge”? Soviet Jewish Officers' Encounters with Germany, 1945

2. New Publications

- Eichmann’s Men by Hans Safrian published by Cambridge University Press in association with the Museum
- After Representation? The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture edited by R. Clifton Spargo and Robert M. Ehrenreich
- Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1938 edited by Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Roseman
- The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive Catalog and Guide edited by Robert Moses Shapiro and Tadeusz Epsztein introduction by Samuel D. Kassow

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27
1–3 p.m.

Jewish Life behind the Walls: Illuminating Emanuel Ringelblum’s Oyneg Shabes Archive

Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, Lower Level

SAMUEL D. KASSOW, Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, will discuss the significance of the Oyneg Shabes– Ringelblum Archive and the recent publication of the catalog and guide to this important collection. Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, the archive provides a documentary record of the wartime fate of Polish Jewry. One of the milk cans is on view in the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition.

The publication of the Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes–Ringelblum Archive Catalog and Guide was made possible by a gift from Esther Cohen of Encino, California, in dedication to her grandchildren, and in the cause of remembrance.

For reservations, go to www.ushmm.org/events/ringelblum

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4
7–8:30 p.m.

2010 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture

Irène Némirovsky and the “Jewish Question” in Interwar France

Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, Lower Level

SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. The author of numerous works, she recently published Crises of Memory and the Second World War (2006), which examines the effects of World War II on writers who lived through it. In her lecture she will discuss the life and work of French writer Irène Némirovsky in relation to questions of Jewish identity in France before, during, and after the Holocaust.

THE J.B. AND MAURICE C. SHAPIRO SENIOR SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIP, endowed by the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust, enables the Center to bring a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research and writing about the Holocaust and to disseminate this work to the American public. This lecture has been made possible through the generosity of the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust, with additional support provided by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

A reception follows the lecture. For reservations, go to www.ushmm.org/events/shapirolecture2010

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MONDAY, MARCH 1
1–3 p.m.

Reading the Signs of the Time: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–38

Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, Lower Level

The Museum’s groundbreaking book series Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946, illuminates the Jewish perspective on the Holocaust through the voices of those who endured it. Editors Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Roseman and Museum survivor volunteers will present a reading and discussion of the diaries, letters, and other materials gathered in the first volume.

Volume I was made possible by major support from the Blum Family Foundation and the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation, with additional support from the Dorot Foundation.

For reservations, go to www.ushmm.org/events/jewishresponses

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THURSDAY, MARCH 18
7–8:30 p.m.

2010 Ina Levine Annual Lecture

“Jewish Revenge”? Soviet Jewish Officers’ Encounters with Germany, 1945

Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, Lower Level

OLEG BUDNITSKII is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Academic Director of the International Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewish Studies in Moscow, and Professor of History in the Department of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University.

The author of numerous works, he most recently published Den’gi russkoi emigratsii: Kolchakovskoe zoloto, 1918–1957 (Money of the Russian Emigration: Kolchak’s Gold, 1918– 1957) in 2008 and Rossiiskie evrei mezhdy krasnymi i belymi, 1917–1920 (Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917–1920) in 2005, an English translation of which is being published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. In his lecture, Professor Budnitskii will present his work on Soviet Jewish identity through the lens of the Soviet Jewish military experience of World War II.

THE INA LEVINE INVITATIONAL SCHOLAR AWARD , endowed by the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona, enables the Center to bring a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research on the Holocaust and to disseminate this work to the American public. This lecture has been made possible through the generosity of the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation, with additional support provided by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.

A reception follows the lecture. For reservations, go to www.ushmm.org/events/levinelecture2010

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