Dovid Katz: Program of events during appointment as Jan Randa Visiting Scholar at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (ACJC) at Monash University, Melbourne, May-June 2011

With sincere thanks to Professor Mark Baker, director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (ACJC) and Helen Midler, ACJC manager, for organizing the program of events in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, and for all their support and kindness at each stage. Special  personal thanks too to the many colleagues and friends who generously extended assistance and hospitality throughout the five-week stay in Australia, including: Professor Danny Ben-Moshe, Hinde Ena Burstin, Danielle Charak, Rachel Croucher, Alex Dafner, Dr Jacob Dessauer, Professor Jennifer Dowling, Dr Andrew Firestone, Deborah Gutman, Professor Konrad Kwiet, Ariella Leski, Michael Misrachi, Freydi Morocki, Barbara Rapaport, Arnold Zable, Professor Ghil`ad Zuckermann, Michael and Bobbi Zylberman — and numerous others.

 


  • ♦14-15 May 2011
  • Yiddish Weekend / Yidish Sof Vokh:
  • Aspects of the History of Yiddish (in Yiddish).
  • In the chair: Doodie Ringelblum.

  • Twenty Years on the Road in Eastern Europe (in Yiddish).
  • In the chair: Doodie Ringelblum.


  • ♦17 May 2011
  • ACJC: Yiddish literature class for Advanced-level students in the course taught by Hinde Ena Burstin.

  • ACJC Research Seminar:
  • Forgotten Book Stamps as a Key to Old Jewish Vilna in the course taught by Dr Michael Fagenblat.


  • ♦18 May 2011
  • ACJC : Yiddish Culture in Lithuania in the course taught by Hinde Ena Burstin (in English; for elementary-level students).

  • ACJC: Holocaust Memory in the course taught by Dr Sue Hempel.

  • ACJC Winter School Series I:
  • The Origins and Early History of Yiddish.
  • In the chair: Professor Andrew Markus.


  • ♦19 May 2011
  • ACJC: Yiddish in Lithuania after the Holocaust in the course taught by Bobbi Zylberman (in English + simple Yiddish, for 2nd & 3rd year undergraduate Yiddish course students).

  • Jewish Holocaust Museum, Melbourne:
  • Session leader on the Holocaust Obfuscation and Double Genocide movements (for staff, guides and volunteers of the museum).
  • In the chair: Warren Fineberg.


  • ♦22 May 2011
  • Interview by Alex Dafner on SBS Radio.

  • ♦23 May 2011
  • ACJC: Holocaust Denial in Eastern Europe in the course taught by Dr Sue Hampel.

  • Jewish Museum of Australia:
  • Panel discussion to mark the launch of the new exhibit on Yiddish culture in Australia. Panel comprising also: Arnold Zable and Anna Epstein.  Invitation here and here.
  • In the chair: Anna Epstein.


  • ♦24 May 2011
  • Linguistics Research Seminar at Monash Clayton: Recovering Lithuanian Yiddish after the Holocaust and Before Extinction on its Native Territory.  Video of talk available here.
  • In the chair: Professor Howard Manns.
  • Sholem Aleichem College: In-service Teacher Training Session (in Yiddish).
  • In the chair: Hinde Ena Burstin.


  • ♦25 May 2011
  • ACJC Winter School Series II:
  • Yiddish and Power in Ashkenazic Society.
  • In the chair: Professor Mark Baker.


  • ♦26 May 2011
  • Monash University (Clayton Campus): The New Incarnation of Holocaust Denial in the course taught by Dan Rabinovici.

  • Jewish National Fund (JNF), South Australian Division (Adelaide):
  • Keynote address at the Annual General Meeting on
  • Vilna, a Jerusalem of Old — and Holocaust Revisionism in Vilnius Today.
  • In the chair: Sue Masry and  Professor Ghil`ad Zuckermann.

  • Radio interview in Adelaide by Pam Mendels  for 5EBI Community Radio.


  • ♦27 May 2011
  • The University of Adelaide, Department of Linguistics and Endangered Languages: Is Yiddish an Endangered Language?
  • In the chair: Professor Ghil`ad Zuckermann.


  • ♦31 May 2011
  • Advanced Yiddish class in the course of Danielle Charak.


  • ♦1 June 2011
  • Sholem Aleichem College: Visit to all classes, discussions with faculty and director.

  • Kadimah Center: Why the new ‘Double Genocide’ movement in Europe should alarm the Holocaust survivor and descendant community (in Yiddish).
  • In the chair: Hinde Ena Burstin.

  • ACJC Winter School Series III:
  • Yiddish from the End of the Holocaust to the End of the 21st Century.
  • In the chair: Dr Miriam Munz.

  • Videographed interview of Professor Ghil`ad Zuckermann on his fortieth birthday and on appointment to the tenured Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at The University of Adelaide.


  • ♦2 June 2011
  • ACJC, session held at the Quest Hotel, East St Kilda, Melbourne:
  • Proletpen (in Yiddish).

  • Radio Lion FM 96.1: The World and Us with Morry and Gab on the 2008 Prague Declaration. Heard live at www.lionfm.org/ [repeated 5 June 2011]. Podcast available at www.TheRoar.info. Further broadcast, ‘The Jewish Question in Lithuania’ transmitted on 23 June 2011 [repeated 26 June 2011]. Heard live at www.lionfm.org/. Podcast available at www.TheRoar.info.


  • ♦5-6 June 2011
  • Aftermath Conference:

  • Delivery of one of the Keynote addresses, on:
  • Memory and Holocaust Denial: The Case of Lithuania.
  • In the chair: Dr Donna-Lee Frieze.  Respondent: Professor Konrad Kwiet.
  • DH.com’s report on the conference here. Conference program here. Ticket here.


  • ♦8 June 2011
  • Participation in the Melbourne Yiddish Reading Circle (léyenkrayz) led by Dr Jacob Dessauer.


  • ♦9 June 2011
  • Jewish Holocaust Museum, Melbourne:
  • The Plot in Europe to Write the Holocaust out of History.
  • In the chair: Warren Fineberg.


  • ♦11 June 2011
  • Shabbos discourse at Congregation Shira Chadasha, Melbourne.
  • In the chair: Professor Mark Baker.
  • Lecture at the Jewish Labor Bund and Skif Center, Melbourne:
  • The Role of the Bund in the Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture — and Today (in Yiddish).
  • In the chair: Michael Zylberman.  Event coordination: Bobbi Zylberman.


  • ♦12-13 June 2011
  • Limmud Oz (Sydney):

  • What is the Real Jewish Language? Panel discussion (with Professor Ghil`ad Zuckerman and Gil Hovav).

  • Memories and Maps of a Yiddishist: Twenty Years on the Road in Eastern Europe.

  • Why Holocaust Distortion is Worse than Denial (with Dr Efraim Zuroff).


  • ♦14 June 2011
  • Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney:
  • Secrets of the Yiddish Language.
  • In the chair: Professor Konrad Kwiet and Dr Jennifer Dowling.


  • ♦15 June 2011
  • ACJC Winter School Series IV:
  • Hebrew, Yiddish and Israeli: No Simple Story (with Professor Ghil`ad Zuckermann, The University of Adelaide).
  • In the chair: Professor Mark Baker.
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