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March
2012
Tuesday 8
March, 6 PM
Yiddish
Culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania and the Newest Version of Holocaust
Denial
at
Musée
d'Aquitaine
January
2012
Thursday
26 January, 3 PM
Disentangling
the Web: The Far Right’s Historic Revisionism Campaign (‘Double Genocide’),
Glorification of Local Nazi Perpetrators, and Current Racism and Intolerance
at the
conference
Remembrance
of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity
sponsored
by
World Without Nazism (Moscow) and the Council of Europe
(Strassbourg)
more
information here
December
2011
Wednesday
21 December, 6 PM
The Next
Hundred Years: The Future of the Vilnius Jewish Community
at a
meeting of the Board of the Vilnius Jewish Community
November-December
2011
Tuesdays,
2―3:15 PM
The Dr.
Sheine Sideraite Vilna Yiddish Reading Circle
at the
Jewish
Community of Lithuania
October
2011
Monday 31
October at 5 PM
Litvaks
of the World and Today’s Lithuania
at the
annual memorial conference of the
Association
of Lithuanian Jews in Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel
Sunday 2
October at 12 midday and 2 PM
Svintsyán
in Jewish History
Remarks at the unveiling of the ghetto memorial monument on
Švenčionys town square
The
Annihilation of the Jews of the Svintsyán Region
Remarks at the annual commemoration at the mass grave site Poligón
near Švenčioneliai (Svintsyánke)
BOTH
EVENTS ORGANIZED BY THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF THE SVINTSYÁN REGION
September
2011
Thursday 22 September
Benjamin Zuskin in Modern Yiddish Culture
at the Benjamin Zuskin Symposium
convened by the Jewish Community of Panevėžys (Pónevezh)
plus remarks at the Unveiling of the
Benjamin Zuskin Plaque (English)
and at the commemoration ceremony at
the mass grave site (Yiddish)
Wednesday, 14 September
Convener and Moderator of the Seminar
Series
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania
(JCL)
The Magic of Litvak DNA in Faraway South Africa
by Solly
Kaplinsky
Saturday,
September 3rd at 5 PM
Exposing
the Holocaust Obfuscation Movement
at the
conference
S’brent! Fascism, Resistance
and the Politics of Memory in Lithuania and Germany
August
2011
Jiddischseminarium
Aronsborg 2011 [‘Stockholm Yiddish Festival’]
Friday,
August 19th at 2 PM:
Yiddish
Workshop (for intermediate and advanced level students) (in Yiddish)
Saturday,
August 20th at 1 PM:
‘Yiddish
Past, Present and Future’ (in Yiddish)
Saturday,
August 20th at 4 PM:
‘Yiddish,
Women and Power’ (in Yiddish)
Saturday,
August 20th at 6 PM:
‘Holocaust Obfuscation in Eastern Europe’ (in English)
Sunday,
August 21st at 1:30 PM:
Your
Questions about Yiddish: An open forum
May-June 2011
Saturday
May 14th through Wednesday June 15th
LECTURING SCHEDULE AT MONASH UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE,
AUSTRALIA:
Sunday-Monday
5-6 June
Monash University, Melbourne
Aftermath Conference: The Politics of Memory
in the series ‘Keynote Lectures’
Sunday,
May 1 at midday
Lecture
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania (in Yiddish):
Who are
the (real) Litvaks?
Pylimo 4, Vilnius
April 2011
Monday,
April 18th at 7 PM
Leading
traditional
Passover
seyder
at the
Jewish
Community of Lithuania
Thursday,
April 14th at 4:15 PM
Yale University
at the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Antisemitism
The Unique and ‘Successful’ Antisemitism in the
East of the European Union
Sunday, April 10th at 4 PM
Ezra Olami (Brooklyn, New York):
The Baltics, Russia and the Holocaust: Recipe
for a new kind of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
Friday-Saturday, April 8th-9th
Shabbaton at the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills
The Past, Present and
Future of Yiddish
Who Are the Litvaks?
My 20 Years on the Road
in Eastern Europe
Tuesday,
April 5th
Briefing
for a meeting of Litvak survivors (and descendants) in New York City
March 2011
Friday, March 25th
University of South
Carolina (Columbia):
New Incarnations of Old Demons in Eastern
Europe. The Prague Declaration, the Double Genocide theory and the Holocaust
Obfuscation movement
Thursday, March 24th
University of South
Carolina (Columbia):
Recovering Lithuanian
Yiddish between Apocalypse and Homeland Extinction. Post-Holocaust Yiddish
Dialectology in Eastern Europe
Thursday, March 24th
Lessons with pupils
at the
Columbia Jewish Day
School (Columbia, South Carolina)
Tuesday, March 22nd
Yeshiva University /
SHEM (New York):
The
Plot to Write the Holocaust out of History (without denying a single death)
Saturday,
March 19th
Meeting
with
Yugntruf
– Youth for Yiddish
Washington Heights, New York City
Tuesday,
March 15th
Canadian
Institute for Jewish Research (Montreal):
Defending
History
Monday,
March 14th
McGill University, Montreal
Yiddish and Power
Friday, March 11th
RTN-WMNB interview with Maya Pritzker
Shalom TV interview with Maya Pritzker
in Fort Lee, New Jersey
Thursday, March 10th at 3 PM
Briefing for leaders of Jewish organizations in New
York City
at the offices of JDC
Tuesday,
March 8th
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
On the Road, Back in the
Old Country:
Memories and Maps of a Yiddish Dialectologist
Monday,
March 7th
The Kennan Institute
at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC
Holocaust Revisionism, Ultranationalism, and the
Nazi/Soviet
‘Double Genocide’ Debate in Eastern Europe
February 2011
13
February at 10:30 AM
Limmud Conference Lithuania
Questions of
Litvaks, Yiddish, and the Holocaust in Lithuania
at the Villon Hotel, Vilnius
January 2011
27
January at 10:30 AM
Greetings from Holocaust Survivors in Lithuania;
historical explanation and recitation of the Kaddish prayer at
Gwasanaeth Coffa’r Holocaust, Neuadd y Penrhyn,
Bangor
Holocaust Remembrance Service, Penrhyn Hall, Bangor
December 2010
17
December
Interviewed
by Peter Morvay on
ATV
Television Budapest [voiced over in Hungarian]
16
December
Interviewed
by RTV Television [voiced over in Croatian]
8
December
Interviewed by Wendy Robbins on
‘Heart and Soul’
A BBC World Service program on Jewish
and Holocaust issues in Eastern Europe
Thursday
2 December
Interview
on RT Television
November 2010
Sunday 21
November
Interview
on RT Television
Friday 5
November — Sunday 7 November
Lectures/Seminars at
Limmud Conference Poland
The Origins and Future of Yiddish (in English)
The Goals of Yiddish Studies in our Time (in
Yiddish)
The Movement to Delete the Holocaust from European
History (in English)
Held at the Boss Hotel, Warsaw
October 2010
Tuesday
12 October & Wednesday 13 October
Participation in a
BBC Radio World Service Documentary
Directed by Wendy Robbins
on Jewish issues in the Baltics
AT VENUES IN LITHUANIA
Sunday 10
October 2010 at 2 PM
Video interview on Lithuanian shtetl life plus
translation and cultural interpretation for
interview of a survivor
with
Jens J. Reinke
for a documentary on
Al Jolson
by A.J. Images Media GbR, Kiel, Germany
AT A VENUE IN VILNIUS
Tuesday 5
October 2010 at midday
Introduction to Jewish Lithuanian Issues
& Question and Answer session
for a group from the
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
and other participating organizations
and individuals
AT A VENUE IN VILNIUS
Sunday 3
October 2010 at midday
Address delivered at the
Annual Commemoration Ceremony for the Jews of the
Svintsyán (Švenčionys) Region
Chaired by Moise Shapiro, chairman of
the Jewish Community of the region
at the forest mass grave site ‘Poligon’ near
Svintsyánke (Švenčioneliai), Lithuania
Friday 1
October 2010
Initiation of 2010-2011 doctoral dissertation supervision
in Yiddish Literature
for Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
September 2010
Tuesday
21 September 2010 at 3 PM
Representation of the Litvak
Studies Institute (LSI)
and the Holocaust
in the Baltics website
at the
Remembrance Ceremony at Ponar (Paneriai) to mark
the
Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto
Monday 20
September 2010 at 3 PM
Translation
and historical commentary for a
Walking
tour of the Vilna Ghetto led by
Fania Yocheles
Brantsovsky
Librarian
of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
ON THE
OCCASION OF THE VISIT TO VILNIUS OF DOUGLAS DAVIDSON, THE US STATE DEPARTMENT’S
SPECIAL ENVOY FOR HOLOCAUST ISSUES, ORGANIZED AND COORDINATED BY THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES IN
VILNIUS
Wednesday
1 September 2010 at 7:30 PM
Representation of the Litvak
Studies Institute (LSI)
and the Holocaust
in the Baltics website
at the
Evening to Honor Survivor and Historian Joseph
Levinson (Vilnius)
Central Synagogue, 36-40 Hallam Street, London W1
July 2010
Friday 30
July 2010, 9 AM – 1 PM
New Incarnations of Old Demons:
Fascism, Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial, the
Cold War
Presentation at the Summer Youth
Conference for Evangelical Christians
at the Helikon Conference Center
Keszthely (Lake Balaton), Hungary
Wednesday
14 July 2010 at 5 PM
Convener and Moderator of the Seminar Series
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL)
Does Tolerance Education promote Intolerance in Lithuania?
by Christine
Beresniova
(Associate Instructor, International and
Comparative Education Policy, Indiana University at Bloomington)
Thursday
8 July 2010 at 5 PM
Convener and Moderator of the Seminar Series
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL)
by Professor Mark Baker
(Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization; Monash
University; Congregation Shir Hadasha, Melbourne)
Wednesday
7 July 2010 at 9 PM
The Holocaust Debate in Europe and the New
Antisemitism
Seminar and power point presentation
for the
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) travel
study group
led by Prof. Mark Baker
at the Conti Hotel, Vilnius
June 2010
Tuesday
22 June 2010 at 12 midday
Contra Prague-’08: Time for an Apt Parliamentary
Challenge
presentation at
International Conference on Lessons of the Second
World War and the Holocaust: The Role of Mass Media in Counteracting the
Distortion of History of the 20th Century
at Hotel President (Congress Hall)
Kiev, Ukraine
Thursday
10 June 2010 at 4 PM
Short welcoming speech:
Books as Symbol of Litvak Civilization
at the
Opening of the Advance Exhibition
of the
Vilnius Jewish Library founded by Wyman Brent
BALTIC REPORTS COVERAGE OF THE EVENT
May 2010
Monday
24 May ― Friday 28 May 2010
Visiting
Professor (Erasmus Program) at Lund University, Sweden
program coordinated by Mr Henry Diab and Dr Salomon Schulman, Lund
by certification of the dean of the History Faculty at Vilnius
University
Monday 24
May, 5 PM, A121:
The Past,
Present and Future of Yiddish
Tuesday
25 May, 5 PM, A121:
Modern
Yiddish Literature
Wednesday
26 May, 5 PM, Auditorium [Public Lecture]
The New
European Battle over Holocaust Memory
Thursday
27 May, 5 PM, A121:
Yiddish,
Women and Power
Friday,
28 May, 2 PM, H140:
Searching
for the Last Shtetl Jews: 20 Years on the Road
Friday 14
May 2010 at 10:30 PM
After-dinner address
at the
Sabbath celebration in Vilnius of the visiting
delegation from the
Southgate and District Synagogue (London)
REPORT IN BCC PAPER (SUMMER 2010)
Tuesday
11 May 2010 at 5:30 PM
Translation
and historical commentary for a
Walking
Tour of the Vilna Ghetto
led by
Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky
Librarian
of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
WITH A DELEGATION FROM WORLD JEWISH RELIEF (LONDON) FOLLOWED BY A
DINNER JOINED BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE
JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LITHUANIA
Tuesday
11 May 2010 at 4 PM
Reminiscences about Cilia Žiburkienė (Tsile
Zhiburkyene)
delivered at the reception following the funeral of
Cilia Ziburkiene
image and brief Facebook tribute here
Friday 7
May 2010 at midday
Address (in Yiddish) at the Vilnius Jewish Cemetery
at the commemoration for Holocaust
victims and those killed in the war against Fascism
beside the monument for fallen Jewish
Partisan heroes
organized by the
Union of Former Ghetto and Concentration Camp
Inmates
and the
Jewish Community of Lithuania
Monday 3
May 2010 at 5 PM
Convener and Moderator of the Seminar Series
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania (JCL)
Literary Odyssey: Leningrad to Montreal and Beyond
by Professor Mikhail Iossel
(Concordia University, Montreal; Founder and
Director of SLS Summer Literary Seminars)
Saturday
1 May 2010 at 4:30 PM
Issues in Lithuanian Jewish Culture
talk with power-point presentation at the
PATHS OF LITHUANIAN JEWRY SHABBATON SEMINAR
at Hotel Trasalis
A PROJECT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LITHUANIA
Gedimino 26
Trakai, Lithuania
April 2010
April
2010
Accepted invitation from the Senate of
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
to supervise Lithuania’s first doctoral
dissertation
in the field of
Yiddish Studies
topic:
Yiddish Literature in the Interwar Lithuanian
Republic
Wednesday
28 April 2010 at 8:30 AM
Translation
and historical commentary for a
Visit to
Ponar (Paneriai) and to the Jewish Partisan Fort led by Fania Yocheles
Brantsovsky,
Librarian
of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
ON THE
OCCASION OF THE VISIT TO VILNIUS OF HANNAH ROSENTHAL,
UNITED
STATES SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTISEMITISM,
ORGANIZED
AND COORDINATED BY THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES IN VILNIUS
Monday 26
April 2010 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Weekly Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Inauguration of the Spring Session of the 11th
year of the Reading Circle
Welcome by
Dr Shimon Alperovich
(chairman, Jewish Community of Lithuania)
Readings from the fiction of Abraham Karpinovich
Monday 26
April 2010 at 9:30 PM
Translation
and historical commentary for a
Vilna
Ghetto Walk led by Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky,
Librarian
of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
ON THE
OCCASION OF THE VISIT TO VILNIUS OF HANNAH ROSENTHAL,
UNITED
STATES SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTISEMITISM,
AND IN
THE PRESENCE OF HE ANNE DERSE, US AMBASSADOR TO LITHUANIA
AND OTHER
UNITED STATES EMBASSY OFFICIALS
Monday 19
April 2010 at 11 AM
Work in Progress on a New Yiddish Language Atlas:
LITVISH
(in Yiddish with translation into Dutch by
Professor Justus van de Kamp)
at the April 19th Yiddish Language Session
under the auspices of the
Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism &
Language Learning
on the occasion of the annual
Yiddish Festival in Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, Netherlands
chaired by
Professor Cor van der Meer & Professor Reinier
Salverda
EVENT POSTPONED
DUE TO AIRLINE SHUTDOWN DURING THE ICELAND VOLCANIC
ASH CRISIS
Wednesday
14 April 2010 at 9 AM
Ashkenazic Studies in the Framework of Judaic
Studies
talk at the
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Nottingham University, UK
Thursday
1 April 2010
Consultant to the launch on Facebook of
(LSI)
a project under the auspices of
Concordia University’s
Summer Literary Seminar (SLS) Program
March 2010
Saturday
20 March 2010 at 8:30 PM
Hosted
Vilnius ‘spring reception’ at residence.
Guests
included Holocaust survivors, Lithuanian students from Vilnius and Kaunas, and diplomats
from the American, British and Norwegian embassies.
Tuesday
16 March 2010 at 11 AM
Participation
in the peaceful protest against the Waffen SS march and ceremony at the Liberty
Monument in central Riga
more details
at www.HolocaustInTheBaltics.com
Monday 15
March 2010 at 10:40 AM
The campaign
to delete the Holocaust from European history and an entangled backdrop:
‘Double
Genocide’, Prosecution of Survivors, the Prague Declaration, the New Cold War
and the New Antisemitism
Paper at the
Baltic Forum / Baltijas Forums
on
Outcomes of World War II: Victims, Righteous, Liberators
and Executioners
held at the Reval Hotel Latvia, Riga
Monday 1
March 2010 at 7:40 PM
The Life and Poetry of Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010)
interview with Ed Horwich
on BBC Radio Manchester 95.1 FM
March—June 2010
Courses offered:
Intermediate Yiddish (JCL)
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Literary Circle (JCL)
Ashkenazic Civilization (VYI) CANCELLED
Introduction to the Old Testament (VYI) CANCELLED
February 2010
Monday 15
February 2010 at 7:30 PM
Report on the Campaign against Holocaust
Survivors
live interview with Ed Horwich
on BBC Radio Manchester 95.1 FM
Friday 12
February 2010
Citations from interview with Mark Ames appear in
January 2010
Sunday 31
January 2010 at 7 PM GMT
Radio interview broadcast (in Yiddish)
on the program
Naye Khvalyes (Warsaw)
interviewed by
Katka Mazurczak
Tuesday
12 January 2010 at 2 PM
Meetings at Westminster, London
with members of the Commons and Lords concerning
the
Prague Declaration (2008)
and the
Stockholm Program (2010-2114)
Friday 1
January 2010
Publication of the new edition of
Lithuanian Jewish Culture
(400 pp folio)
Published by Baltos Lankos (Vilnius)
in cooperation with
Central European University Press
December 2009
Wednesday
16 December 2009 at 5 PM
Holocaust Obfuscation and a
Uniquely East European Antisemitism
Presentation (by invitation of the Israeli Ministry
of Foreign Affairs)
at the panel
‘Nationalist Trends in Central and Eastern Europe:
New Challenges Facing the Jewish Communities’
held at the Knesset, Jerusalem as part of the
Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism
Session chaired by Andrew Baker and Mark Levin
Reports in the Jerusalem Post (17 Dec) and Haaretz (25 Dec); image
Tuesday
15 December 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 14
December 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Wednesday
9 December 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday 8
December 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 7
December 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Thursday
3 December 2009 at 6:30 PM
The Kaminski Rumpus in the UK and its Echoes:
The Prague Declaration and a new Far
Right that Masquerades as the Center
Open University Lecture (in English)
at the Jewish Theater, Grzybowski Square 12/16,
Warsaw
translation
into Polish by Anna Szapert
under the
auspices of the Shalom
Foundation
Wednesday
2 December 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday 1
December 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
November 2009
Monday 30
November 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Sunday 29
November 2009 at 2 PM
Past, Present and Future of Yiddish
Lecture
and discussion (in Yiddish):
at the
Uilenburger Synagogue, Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat, Amsterdam
under the
auspices of Stichting Jiddisj
translation
into Dutch by Justus van de Kamp
interview in NRC Handelsblad by Hilde
Pach (3 Dec 2009)
Friday 27
November 2009
Launch of
the column in Yiddish
on
aspects of the Yiddish language
Kapítalakh
yídish
(‘Chapters
in Yiddish’)
in the
Algemeyner
Zhurnal (New
York)
First
seven installments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
more
details at Recent Publications
Thursday
26 November 2009 at 1 PM
Introduction,
translation and commentary for a
Vilna
Ghetto Walk led by Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky,
Librarian
of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
FOR
AMBASSADORS AND CHARGÉS D’AFFAIRES OF THE EMBASSIES OF
Finland,
France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia
report
on Holocaust in the Baltics (entry for 26 November 2009)
Wednesday
25 November 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday
24 November 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 23
November 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Wednesday
18 November 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday
17 November 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 16
November 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Sunday 15
November 2009 at 4 PM
Associated partner [not in attendance] in the
Reception for the Survivor Mitzvah Project
At 705 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills,
California
Wednesday
11 November 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday
10 November 2009 at 3 PM
When Jewish Vilne (Vilnius)
was the Lone Opponent of
Hundreds of Towns in Jewish Poland and Ukraine
Lecture
(in English) at the Polish-Lithuanian Academy
Institute
of International Relations and Political Science
Vokiečių
10, Vilnius
Tuesday
10 November 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 9
November 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Wednesday
4 November 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday 3
November 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 2
November 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
October 2009
Wednesday
28 October 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday 27
October 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 26
October 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Wednesday
21 October 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Tuesday 20
October 2009 at 1 PM
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
Monday 19
October 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Thursday
15 October 2009 at 11:30 AM
interview by [actor-comedian / former Oxford
student]
David Schneider
on his
a BBC London Radio 4 program
Wednesday
14 October 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Monday 12
October 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
Discussion Session
with a delegation from the
Network for Studies of National Socialism and the Holocaust
comprising
Jens-Christian Hansen, Niels Bjřrk Pedersen, Prof.
Ninon Schloss,
Prof. Therkel Strćde
(Dept of History & Civilization, University of
Southern Denmark)
Coordinated by
Regina Kopilevich
Wednesday
7 October 2009 at 5 PM
Old Testament Introduction class (VYI)
Monday 5
October 2009 at 5 PM
Ashkenazic Civilization class (VYI)
September 2009
Monday 15
September 2009 at 6 PM
Represented the Vilnius Yiddish Institute at the
Celebration of the Life of Sidney Corob
At the Royal College of Physicians, London
August 2009
Monday 24
August 2009 at 12 midday
participation in a reception at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Lithuania
in honor of publication of
Raimondas Paknys, Isaac Zibuts et al,
The Sounds of Silence. Traces of Jewish Life in
Lithuania
[cf below 12 May 2009]
Saturday
22 August 2009 at 8:30 PM
Welcoming reception hosted at residence
in honor of
Professor Sara Ginaite (University of Toronto)
attended by representatives of the United States
and other embassies &
a representative of the Lithuanian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Thursday
20 August 2009 at 7 PM
Unofficial Summer Program Lecture (in English):
How do we Work for the Future of Yiddish?
(residence
of Larry Mandel)
Wednesday
19 August 2009 at 6 PM
Unofficial Summer Program Lecture (in Yiddish):
The Holocaust Obfuscation Movement in Europe
(residence
of Dovid Katz; organized by Professor Abraham Lichtenbaum and Adalbert Wagner)
Monday 17
August 2009 at 6 PM
Unofficial Summer Program Lecture (in English):
The Project to Delete the Holocaust
from European History
(residence
of Daniel Nemenyi and Martina Ravagnan)
Friday 14
August 2009 8:30 PM
Radio interview broadcast
‘Wie der Antisemitismus in Vilnius neue
Blüten treibt’
on the program
Schabat Schalom
on the
Das Magazin aus jüdischen Leben
interviewed by
Anat Kalman
Monday 10
August 2009 at 6 PM
Unofficial Summer Program Lecture (in English):
Exposing the Holocaust Obfuscation Movement
(residence of Dovid Katz; organized by Dr
Shimon Samuels, Dr Ilya Levin and Adalbert Wagner)
Sunday 9
August 2009 at 8:15 PM
Radio interview broadcast (in Yiddish and
Ashkenazic Hebrew)
on the program
Naye Khvalyes (Warsaw)
interviewed by
Katka Mazurczak
July 2009
19 — 31
July 2009
Founding Director and Lead Instructor:
a self-contained two-week program within the 2009
Summer Literary Seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania
sessions held at JCL
under the auspices of SLS directed by Prof. Mikhail Iossel
6 — 12
July 2009
Series of Advanced Yiddish workshops (in Yiddish)
and four lectures (in English)
at the
Seventh Annual Summer Language Seminar in
Śródborów, Poland:
I The Past, Present
and Future of Yiddish
II Holocaust Obfuscation
from the Baltics to Brussels
IV Expeditions to
the Last Prewar Yiddish Speakers
under the auspices of the Shalom
Foundation
Thursday 2
July 2009 at 8 PM
Farewell reception hosted
in honor of the Ambassador of Austria in Lithuania
HE Andrea Wicke and Mr Wenzi Wicke-Dermendjiev
Courses Feb—June 2009
Ashkenazic Civilization (VYI)
Introduction to the Old Testament (VYI)
Sheine Sideraite Yiddish Reading Circle (JCL)
June 2009
Tuesday 23
June 2009 at 10 AM
The Baltic Project to Delete the Holocaust from
European History. Observations from Lithuania
Lecture and
power point presentation (in English) at the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 13 Tel Hai
Street, Jerusalem
Chaired
by Manfred Gerstenfeld and Efraim Zuroff
Twelfth
lecture of the Eighth Herbert Berman Memorial Series
Synopsis at the JCPA site
Friday 19
June 2009 at 12 midday
Rachel Margolis and the Defense of History
Lecture
(in Yiddish)
and
presentation of a certificate of recognition from the British House of Lords
issued by Lord Janner of Braunstone
at Leivick
House, Rechov Dov Hoz 30, Tel Aviv
at the
event to honor
Dr Rachel
Margolis
under the
auspices of the
Association
of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel
Chaired
by Daniel Galay
Reports
at the Leivick House website; at holocaustinthebaltics.com
Friday 12
June 2009 at 5 PM
Convener and Moderator of the Seminar Series
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Pylimo 4,
Vilnius
by Professor Stefan Schreiner
(Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany)
Tuesday 9
June 2009 at 5 PM
Convener and Moderator of the Seminar Series
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Pylimo 4,
Vilnius
by Professor Evan Zimroth
(Associate Director, Center for Jewish Studies,
Queens College, CCNY)
attended by HE Chen Ivri Apter, Ambassador of
Israel to Latvia and Lithuania and HE Darius Degutis, Ambassador of Lithuania
to Israel
May 2009
Friday 22
May 2009 at 5 PM
Convener and Moderator of the Seminar Series
at the Jewish Community of Lithuania, Pylimo 4,
Vilnius
What is Modern Jewish Philosophy?
by Professor Richard Cohen
(Director, Institute of Jewish Thought and
Heritage, SUNY Buffalo)
Friday 15
May 2009 at 8 PM
Reception hosted at Vilnius residence in honor of
the
European Parliament candidacy of
Professor Leonidas Donskis
Professor of Political Science & Philosophy, and
Director of the Political Science and Diplomacy
School
at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas
Tuesday
12 May 2009 at 6 PM
Address at the book launch of
The Sounds of Silence. Traces of Jewish Life in
Lithuania
at the Rotušė
(Vilnius Old Town Hall, Didžioji 31)
Translation of Rotušė
speech into Lithuanian by Birutė Ušinskaitė
Event addressed also by HE Ambassador Simon Butt
(UK), Pranas Morkus, Raimondas Paknys, Professor Irena Veisaitė,
Isaac Zibuts
April 2009
Tuesday
21 April 2009 at 12 midday
Participation in the Lithuania bookstand
presentation at
The London Book Fair
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
joint appearance with
Daiva Parulskiene, Lithuanian cultural attaché in
London
Monday 20
April 2009 at 6:45 PM
New Incarnations of Three Old Demons:
Holocaust Denial, Antisemitism and the ‘New Cold
War’
Lecture
and power point presentation (in English)
in the
Gustave Tuck Theatre, University College London
Reception
at 6:15 PM in the UCL Terrace Restaurant,
Gower
Street, London WC1E 6BT
in the
lecture series of the Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL
Chaired
by Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert
report at the VYI site
Saturday
4 April 2009 at 8 PM
Reception hosted at Vilnius residence
in honor of the visit to Lithuania of
Sir Martin Gilbert and Mrs Esther Gilbert
February 2009
Monday 2
February 2009
Publication of
by the
International Cultural Program Center
at the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
in cooperation with the
Vilnius Yiddish Institute
December 2008
5, 6 and
7 December 2008
Scholar
in Residence at Temple Beth Tikvah
4550 Jog Road, Greenacres, Florida
Presentations
on:
The Elderly
Jewish Survivors of Eastern Europe
What
Yiddish means for our Generation
Antisemitism
and a New Holocaust Denial in Eastern Europe
Chaired
by Rabbi Howard M. Shub
Coordinated
by Sara Klompus
Report by
Shani McManus in the Jewish Journal (16 Dec 2008)
November 2008
Wednesday
26 November 2008 at 12 midday
Crossroads: Antisemitism, Holocaust Obfuscation
and Restitution Issues
Lunch
time talk at the offices of the
American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York City
Chaired
by Herbert Block
Tuesday
25 November 2008 at 12 midday
Holocaust Denial and the ‘New Cold War’
Lecture
and power point presentation at Rutgers University
cosponsored
by the Department of History and the Bildner Center
at Van
Dyck 301, 16 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New Jersey
notice at
the Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences site
Chaired
by Professor Steven Lawson
Monday 24
November 2008 at 7:30 PM
The New Face of Holocaust Denial
Lecture
and power point presentation (in English)
at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
Department
of Germanic Languages and Literatures
at Penn Hillel, Steinhardt Hall, 215 South 39th
Street, Philadelphia
Synopsis at the Germanic Languages and Jewish
Studies sites
Chaired by Dr Kathryn Hellerstein
Coordinated by Professor Joe Turow
Friday 21
November 2008 at 11 AM
The Holocaust Obfuscation movement in Eastern
Europe
Lecture
and power point presentation (in English)
at Indiana
University at Bloomington, Indiana
Chaired
by Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger
Thursday
20 November 2008 at 8 PM
The Future of Yiddish
Lecture
with brief video presentation (in English)
at
Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana
Chaired
by Professor Dov-Ber Kerler and Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger
Monday 10
November 2008 at 8 PM
The New Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
Lecture
and power point presentation (in English)
at the
Kristallnacht Commemoration
at Bangor
University, North Wales, UK
Chaired
by Dr Deirdre Burke
October 2008
Wednesday
1 October 2008
Publication of
Windows to a Lost Jewish Past:
Vilna Book Stamps
published by
Versus Aureus (Vilnius)
