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May 2013
Monday 27 May 2013
State-Sponsored Collective Memory Revisionism: A
21st Century Incarnation of Holocaust Denial?
at the Second International Conference
on “Museums and Memorial Places in Post-Communist Countries: Challenges and
Opportunities” (Riga, Latvia)
April 2013
Thursday 18 April, 7 PM
Red-Brown
= The New Far Right Masquerading as Center-Right
at Haus der
Demokratie, Greifswalder Straße 4, Berlin
Week of 15 April
Launch of
the Fourteenth Annual Session of the Dr. Sheine Sideraitė Yiddish Reading
Circle
at the
Jewish Community of Lithuania, Pylimo 4, Vilnius
Everybody
welcome
December 2012
Wednesday 19 December,
5:45—6:45 PM
Questions
and Answers on Yiddish and East European Holocaust Issues
at Yeshiva
University, Furst Hall, 500 West 185th Street, room 210
more information here; poster here
Thursday 13 December,
6:30—8:30 PM
Holocaust
Obfuscation: The 21st Century Version of Denial
at the Fordham University Seminar Series on
Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective
Lincoln
Center Campus, McMahon Hall 109, New York City
more information here; video here
October 2012
Thursday 25 October
Slavic/Knaanic
and Old Yiddish: A Real or Imagined Connection?
at the
Knaanic Language Conference in Prague, Czech Republic
Tuesday 9 October at 9 PM
First episode of Channel 4
(London) “Jewish Mum of the Year” followed by interview with Kate Morey
on More 4.
September 2012
Friday 21 Sept – Sunday
23 Sept
Hosting
welcoming reception for participants of the “Borderlands” conference, and
attending select sessions at the Stikliai Hotel, Vilnius
Sunday 16 September
Lecture,
Power point presentation and discussion for the Jewish Community’s Young
People’s Club:
The Culture of the Litvaks and the their Rosheshone Traditions
prior to walking over to the synagogue for the onset of holiday
prayers.
July 2012
Tuesday 17 July 8:30 PM
Mysteries
of the Litvaks: Language, History, Culture, Future
at the
Barbakanas Hotel, Vilnius
Friday 13 July 5 PM
Comments
on the history of Zhager’s Jewry, and Kaddish
at the
Plaque inauguration
ceremony on the town square of Zhager (Žagarė), northern Lithuania
Sunday 1 July midday
Yiddish
Whitechapel: 1975-1985 (with reference to contemporary memory of earlier
Yiddish culture in London’s East End)
WALKING TOUR
June-August 2012
Filming in London as one of
two judges for Channel 4’s “Jewish Mum of the Year” competition (four episodes
to be televised in autumn 2012)
June 2012
Monday 4 June, 6 PM
Memorial
Sites in Lithuania that Diminish and Obfuscate the Holocaust
at
Conference on Holocaust
Museums and Memorial Places in Post-Communist Countries: Challenges and
Opportunities”
at the
Riga Ghetto and Latvian
Holocaust Museum
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)
