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Decorative embroidery by Rose Biegeleise<\/a>n Axelrod, depicting German ruler and allies during\u00a0World\u00a0War\u00a0I. Translation from the German: “We are united and no power can separate us. Our armies have forced their way, through storm and darkness, to victory."\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n Collection of Yeshiva University Museum <\/p>\n To mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I and to consider the war\u2019s legacies in the present day, the Center for Jewish History is launching the World War I and the Jews Initiative,\u00a0a series of exciting public programs to explore the way that the war transformed Jewish life around the globe. This includes a conference, a film series, a concert and, as a keystone for the centennial celebration, an evening of performance.<\/p>\n Here’s the full schedule<\/a>, with details about each program and its participants. The Center is located at 15 West 16th St. in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n An international roster of scholars will discuss the state of scholarship and introduce cutting-edge research on Jews in World War I, examining the war\u2019s importance as a cataclysmic event in Jewish and world history. In shattering empires and creating new states, the war disrupted Jewish ties around the globe and forged new ones, bringing about an entirely new era of ideologies, nation states, and circumstances that have affected Jewish life to the present day.<\/p>\n Sunday, November 9 (public sessions)<\/b><\/p>\n Day 1 – The State of Scholarship<\/b><\/p>\n Judith C. Siegel, Center for Jewish History Carole Fink, Ohio State University Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland Derek Penslar, University of Oxford and University of Toronto David Engel, New York University Emily Bilski, Independent Scholar Public interested in attending on Sunday, November 9 may purchase tickets\u00a0online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Monday, November 10 (for college faculty and students only)<\/b><\/p>\n Day 2 – New Research<\/b><\/p>\n Erin Corber, Indiana University\/Bloomington <\/p>\n Steven Schouten, Scientific Council for Government Policy, the Netherlands Mirjam Zadoff, Indiana University Bloomington Mihaly Kalman, Harvard University Daniel Rosenthal, University of Toronto Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1, Purdue University Michal ben Yaakov, Efrata College, Jerusalem Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Brown University Reeva Simon, Columbia University Devi Mays, Jewish Theological Seminary Jessica Cooperman, Muhlenberg College Jaclyn Granick, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Melissa Klapper, Rowan University Matt Silver This panel is sponsored by the Goldstein-Goren Institute at NYU<\/p>\n<\/li>\n David Engel, Marsha Rozenblit, Sarah Stein, Hasia Diner, Emily Bilski<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n College faculty and students may register for tickets online at\u00a0www.cjh.org\/thegreatwarconference<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaker Bios<\/b><\/p>\n Michal Ben Ya\u2019akov<\/b>\u00a0(Ph.D., Hebrew University in Jerusalem) is an assistant professor in modern history at the Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem and chair of\u00a0the history department.\u00a0 She created a unique certification program for Teaching the Holocaust and its Commemoration at the Efrata College for both pre-service and in-service teachers, and has headed the program since 2007. Her academic research centers on 19th and\u00a020th century Eretz-Israel\/Palestine\/Israel, with special emphasis on North African and Sephardi Jewry, as well on the experiences of North African Jews during both World Wars. In recent years she has focused on Jewish women, particularly, but not exclusively in those communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n Emily D. Bilski<\/b>\u00a0has published on modernism and on the interface between art, cultural history and Jewish experience, and on contemporary art. She has served as curator and consultant to museums in the United States, Europe and Israel. A graduate of Harvard University, she is the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards, for\u00a0Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture: 1898-1918\u00a0<\/i>(University of California, 1999) and\u00a0The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons<\/i>\u00a0(Yale, 2005). She is currently editing the volume of Martin Buber\u2019s writings on art for the complete edition of his works; and writing on the history of Munich\u2019s Thannhauser Gallery.\u00a0<\/p>\n Paris Papamichos Chronakis<\/b>\u00a0is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. He received his M.A. in Comparative History from Essex University and his Ph.D. in Modern Greek and European History from the University of Crete. A recipient of numerous grants, he was a Rothschild Foundation Europe post-doctoral teaching fellow at the University of Thessaly and a research fellow at UCLA. He is a historian of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean working on the late Ottoman Empire, the modern Greek state, and Sephardic Jewry and holding a special interest in the interrelated histories of the middle classes, interethnic relations, and the passage from empire to the nation-state.<\/p>\n Jessica Cooperman is\u00a0<\/b>Assistant Professor of Religion Studies at Mulenberg College.\u00a0 She received her Ph.D. from New York University in modern Jewish history.\u00a0 Her dissertation was entitled, \u00a0"The Jewish Welfare Board and the American Jewish Cititzen: Jewish Chaplains, Soldiers and Welfare Workers in the First World War.”<\/p>\n Erin Corber<\/b>\u00a0is a historian of modern France and modern Jewry. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of European History at the University of Maine.\u00a0 Originally from Montr\u00e9al, QC, she defended her\u00a0Ph.D. in November, 2013\u00a0in the Department of History \u00a0and Borns Jewish Studies Program\u00a0at Indiana University,\u00a0Bloomington. In spring 2014 she was a\u00a0Postdoctoral Visiting Research Scholar and instructor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington.<\/p>\n Hasia Diner<\/b>\u00a0is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History, and Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University.\u00a0 She received her Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Chicago, her M.A. from University of Chicago, and her B.A. from University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n David Engel<\/b>\u00a0is an American historian and Professor of Holocaust and Judaic Studies at New York University. Engel holds his Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles, and completed postdoctoral study at Hebrew University’s Division of Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary Jewry in Jerusalem. \u00a0He is a Fellow of the Diaspora Research Institute at Tel Aviv University; member of the Carnegie Commission on Ethics and International Affairs and the Commission on Polish-Jewish Relations since 2002. In 1986\u201387 Engel received Outstanding Lecturer honors at Tel Aviv University; in 1996 he was given the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at New York University.<\/p>\n Gennady Estraikh<\/b>\u00a0is Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at NYU.\u00a0 He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford.\u00a0 His research interests include Jewish intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries with an accent on Yiddish literary milieus.<\/p>\n Carole Fink<\/b>, Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at The Ohio State University, has recently published\u00a0Cold War: An International History<\/i>\u00a0and is the author of two prize-winning books,\u00a0Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-1922<\/i>. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the German Marshall Fund, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Association of University Women.<\/p>\n Jaclyn Granick<\/b>\u00a0is working towards finishing her dissertation, “Humanitarian Responses to Jewish Suffering Abroad by American Jewish Organizations, 1914-1929.” She is a Ph.D. candidate in international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and is spending the 2014-2015 academic year as a Graduate Research Fellow here at the Center for Jewish History.<\/p>\n
Gift of Sylvia A. Herskowitz<\/b><\/p>\nWORLD WAR I AND THE JEWS<\/h2>\n
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\nCOFFEE AND REGISTRATION<\/b>\n<\/li>\n
\nWELCOME AND GREETINGS<\/b><\/p>\n
David Engel, New York University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 1: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION<\/b><\/p>\n
Introductions:\u00a0David Engel, New York University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 2: THE JEWISH WORLD IN 1914 AND 1919: WHAT CHANGED?<\/b><\/p>\n
Introduction:\u00a0Gennady Estraikh, New York University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nLUNCH ON YOUR OWN<\/b>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 3: JEWS IN THE MILITARY<\/b><\/p>\n
Introduction:\u00a0Deborah Dash Moore, U of Michigan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 4: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS DURING WORLD WAR I<\/b><\/p>\n
Introduction:\u00a0Marsha Rozenblit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 5: THE WAR AND JEWISH CULTURE<\/b><\/p>\n
Introduction:\u00a0Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nWINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION<\/b>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\nCOFFEE<\/b>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 1: WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE
CHAIR: JESS OLSON, YESHIVA UNIVERSITY<\/b><\/p>\n
‘How to be an \u201cExemplary Hero\u201d: Jewish First World War Heroes and the Politics of Sacred Union in Wartime and Interwar France’<\/p>\n
\u201cJews and Kashrut in Wartime Germany\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrothers in Arms: WWI & the Case of Werner and GershomScholem\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 2: EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE
CHAIR: GENNADY ESTRAIKH<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe Union of Jewish Soldiers between Ukrainian Nationalism and Soviet Internationism\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConfronting Mss Death: Philanthropy, Public Health, and Jewish Responses to Typhus in Poland, 1914-1921\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRescue and Representation: Jewish Home Front Activists in Russia\u2019s Great War\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBetween Refugees and the State: Hungarian Jews and Wartime Hungarian Refugee Policy\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nLUNCH ON YOUR OWN<\/b>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 3: OTTOMAN EMPIRE
CHAIR: SARAH STEIN, UCLA<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe Social and Economic Impact of the First World War on Sephardi Women in Palestine\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGlobal Conflict, Local Politics: The Jews of Salonica and the First World War\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWorld War I and the Jews of Baghdad<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 1919 \u2018Haggadah dela Gerra\u2019 and the Myth of Ottoman Jewish Loyalty in World War I\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nSESSION 4: NORTH AMERICA
CHAIR: HASIA DINER, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe US Military in World War I and American Religious Pluralism\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOrganized American Jewish Responses to Child Sufferers of World War I\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerican Jewish Women\u2019s Organizations and the Great War\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLouis Marshall and Transformations in Diaspora Politics during World War I\u201d<\/p>\n
\nSESSION 5: CONCLUDING ROUNDTABLE
CHAIR: JONATHAN KARP<\/b><\/p>\n