Soviet Jewish Soldiers, Jewish Resistance, and Jews in the USSR during the Holocaust

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE

Soviet Jewish Soldiers, Jewish Resistance, and Jews in the USSR during
the Holocaust

Organized by

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

and

Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
New York University

Supported by

The Blavatnik Family Foundation

Corinne P. and Maurice R. Greenberg Foundation

The Starr Foundation


16-17 November 2008
New York City

International Call for Papers

On November 16-17, 2008, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and New York University's
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies are organizing an
international scholarly conference on Soviet Jewish Soldiers, Jewish
Resistance, and Jews in the USSR during the Holocaust. This conference
will take place in New York City at NYU's Skirball Department of
Hebrew and Judaic Studies.

Masses of rich material have become available since the dissolution of
the Soviet Union, providing new insight into previously under-
researched aspects of the Holocaust on Soviet territory. This joint
conference will examine the Soviet Jewish experience during World War
II and the Holocaust, including but not limited to: Soviet Jewish
soldiers at home and abroad; representations of Jewish soldiers in
press, literature, and films; contextual issues such as German, Axis,
and Soviet policies and attitudes during the Holocaust; Soviet Jewish
combatants in the struggle against Fascism; camps and ghettos in the
Soviet Union; Soviet Jewish life and culture; collaboration as a
Soviet and post-Soviet issue; and the Soviet Shoah and the evolution
of Soviet Jewish consciousness.

Proposals are welcome from scholars in all relevant academic
disciplines, including advanced graduate students. Applicants
interested in presenting a paper should be currently researching or
completing projects related to the above or to other themes that shed
new light on an under-studied aspect of the Soviet Jewish experience
during World War II. Successful candidates will be required to submit
a copy of their presentation six weeks in advance of the conference,
for circulation among all conference participants.

For applicants whose papers are accepted, the conference organizers
will fund conference-related travel and lodging expenses.

The conference will be conducted in English.
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