BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:357@amyisrael.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220727T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220727T183000 DTSTAMP:20220725T012010Z URL:https://www.amyisrael.org/events/tevyes-descendents-a-short-history-of -soviet-jewry-facilitated-by-howard-schickler/ SUMMARY:Tevye's Descendents: A Short History of Soviet Jewry\, facilitated by Howard Schickler\, July 20 and 27 DESCRIPTION:Howard Schickler will be facilitating the three session course below with the assistance of Vera Ginburg. Vera will be helping us underst and the presentation as one of Tevye's grandchildren\, someone who grew up in and emigrated from Soviet Russia. \; Each session should last abou t an hour and a half including discussion time.\n\nIf you would like suppl emental materials\, if there are any\, please let Howard know by clicking here.\n\nIf you have already indicated interest in the class there is no n eed to request the additional materials.\n\nThe Zoom link and password to the sessions is:\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88395523620?pwd=aGRsaGVadkRN UFJ6MW1jUWl0K2YrZz09\n\nMeeting ID: 883 9552 3620\nPasscode: 075044\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nTevye’s Descendants: A Short History of Soviet Jewry\nTaught by Jonathan Dekel-Chen\, Allen and Joan Bildner Visiting Scholar\nThree Sessi on Mini-Course\nFictionalized images of Russian Jewry\, primarily embodied by Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof”\, have little in common with the re alities of life for Jews in Russia under the tsars and\, later\, under the commissars of the Soviet regime. Nor do they reflect the life and culture of Soviet Jews who immigrated to Israel and the West beginning in the 197 0s.\n\nWith the passage of time and the benefit of new scholarship underta ken since the fall of the “Iron Curtain” in the late 1980s\, we now kn ow much more about how Jews in Russian-speaking lands actually lived. Usin g excerpts from archival documents\, visual materials and music\, this min i-course explores the main themes in the experiences of Russian and Soviet Jews. We will challenge the collective memories of that past and examine clearly how those millions of Jews labored\, learned\, lived\, and perishe d in one of the most fascinating\, enigmatic places on earth.\n\nSession 1 - Tevye and His Times: From the Rule of the Tsars to the Commissars (1773 -1921)\n\nSession 2 - Tevye’s Soviet Children: From Triumph to Tragedy ( 1922-1945)\n\nSession 3 - Tevye’s Grandchildren: Recovery\, Repression\, Revival (1946-1991)\n\nProfessor Jonathan Dekel-Chen is Rabbi Edward Sand row Chair in Soviet &\; East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, where he holds a dual appointment in the Department of Jewish History and in the Department of General History. He served from 2007-201 9 as the Academic Chairman of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russi an and East European Jewry. He is currently Chairman of the Russian Studie s Department. Dekel-Chen’s publications have appeared in prestigious sch olarly presses. His current research and publications deal with transnatio nal philanthropy and advocacy\, non-state diplomacy\, agrarian history and migration. In 2014 he co-founded the Bikurim Youth Village for the Perfor ming Arts in Eshkol\, which provides world-class artistic training for und erserved high school students from throughout Israel. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.amyisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/202 2/06/soviet-Jewry.jpg CATEGORIES:Adult Education,Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR