With sincere thanks to Professor Mikhail Iossel, Dr Anna Halberstadt and Rimma Kharlamov for their dedicated efforts and continuous generosity of spirit in enabling this speaking tour in the United States and Canada, organized by the Council of Jewish Emigre Community Organizations (COJECO) under a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).
- ♦7 March 2011
- Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, DC):
- Holocaust Revisionism, Ultranationalism, and the Nazi/Soviet ‘Double Genocide’ Debate in Eastern Europe.
- In the chair: Dr Blair Ruble. Event coordination: F. Joseph Dresen. Welcome and hospitality: Evan Malnik.
- Kennan Institute’s summary by Amy Shannon Liedy here.
- Coverage in the Lithuanian daily Lietuvos rytas; Dovid Katz’s reply.
- ♦8 March 2011
- Inaugural Naomi Prawer Kadar Memorial Lecture, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York):
- On the Road, Back in the Old Country: Memories and Maps of a Yiddish Dialectologist.
- In the chair: Dr Jonathan Brent. Event coordinator: Dr Hershl (Paul) Glasser.
- Yivo’s video here.
- ♦10 March 2011
- Private briefing for representatives of major Jewish organizations (organized by JDC, New York).
- In the chair: Herbert Block.
- ♦11 March 2011
- RTN-WMNB live television interview with Maya Pritsker (New York). Presenter’s article resulting from the show (in Russian) appeared on March 15th; available here.
- Shalom TV interview with Maya Pritsker (New York), available on demand; original viewing data here (under ‘Judaism and Culture’).
- ♦14 March 2011
- McGill University (Montreal, 14 March 2011):
- Yiddish and Power.
- In the chair: Anna Gonshor.
- McGill University’s images here.
- ♦15 March 2011
- Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (Montreal):
- Defending History.
- In the chair:
- ♦19 March 2011
- Meeting with Yugntruf―Youth for Yiddish (New York).
- ♦22 March 2011
- Yeshiva University (New York):
- The Plot to Write the Holocaust Out of History (without denying a single death).
- In the chair: Simon Goldberg.
- Images and report by the Student Holocaust Education Movement (SHEM) here.
- ♦24 March 2011
- University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC):
- Recovering Lithuanian Yiddish between Apocalypse and Homeland Extinction. Post-Holocaust Yiddish Dialectology in Eastern Europe.
- In the chair: Professor Doyle Stevick.
- ♦24 March 2011
- Session with pupils at the Columbia Jewish Day School.
- In the chair: Sheindal G. Muller. Photos here and here.
- ♦25 March 2011
- University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC):
- New Incarnations of Old Demons in Eastern Europe. The Prague Declaration, the Double Genocide theory and the Holocaust Obfuscation movement.
- Poster for the symposium on The Politics of the Holocaust and Holocaust Education in Contemporary Europe.
- In the chair: Professor Doyle Stevick.
- ♦5 April 2011
- Meeting with representatives of Litvak survivor groups (New York).
- ♦8-9 April 2011
- The Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills (Shabbaton):
- The Past, Present and Future of Yiddish.
- In the chair: Rabbi Moses A. Birnbaum.
- Who Are the Litvaks?
- In the chair: Rabbi Moses A. Birnbaum.
- My 20 Years on the Road in Eastern Europe.
- In the chair: Rabbi Moses A. Birnbaum.
- ♦10 April 2011
- Ezra Olami (Brooklyn, New York):
- The Baltics, Russia and the Holocaust: Recipe for a new kind of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe.
- In the chair: Rimma Kharlamov. Vote of thanks: Dr Anna Halberstadt.
- ♦14 April 2011
- Yale University (New Haven, 14 April 2011):
- The Unique and ‘Successful’ Antisemitism in the East of the European Union.
- In the chair: Dr Charles Small. Event coordination: Lauren Clark.
- Poster here. Yale University’s video here. Also filmed by Shalom TV.
