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The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College operates a multi-year publishing symposium with generous support from the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation. The program conforms loosely to a four-year cycle:

Year 1: Scholars present formal papers at Ramapo College
Year 2: Scholars circulate chapter drafts, which are discussed at a second meeting at Ramapo College
Year 3: CHGS and the contributors compile an edited volume for submission to an academic press
Year 4: Publishing continues and the theme for the next cycle is developed

We encourage scholars and centers interested in partnering with us on future symposia: holgen@ramapo.edu.

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Our First Symposium Cycle is Nearing Fruition

 

Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders (Purdue University Press, 2026)
Rebekah Klein-Pej拧ov谩 (Purdue University) and Jacob Ari Labendz (Ramapo College)

Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders builds upon discussions of Jewish survival and cultural viability after the Holocaust in Eastern and Central Europe, including the Soviet Union. This book confronts both a shifting postwar geopolitical landscape and the remnants of devastated European Jewish populations with their global diasporas, tragically and radically transformed. The volume traces the flow of ideas, people, cultural practices and materials, and even bodily remains across securitized Cold War borders, as the postwar geography of European Jewish life largely shifted to Israel and North America. How did Jews and Jewish institutions across hostile Cold War geopolitical boundaries seek and maintain contact with each other? Contact meant continuity. Contact was a means of mapping the Cold War terrain, of exploring strategies of adaptation, conservation, and reconstruction. It meant rabbis鈥� reprised visits to the USSR, wholesale movement of libraries, dissent, dashed dreams of belonging, and urns of ashes.

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CONTACT: The Movement and Meeting of Jewish People and Artifacts across Cold-War Boundaries

October 9 – 11, 2023 at the Center

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College is proud to announce its first scholarly symposium, funded with generous support from the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation and organized in partnership with the .

The symposium is the second in a two-part series, the aim of which is to publish an edited volume featuring contributions from the participants (and perhaps a few more!). The was held in May, 2022 at the (Steel Museum).

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Keynote Address: Ann Hagedorn

October 9 at 6:00 PM (Hybrid: Friends Hall and Zoom)

Acclaimed author and journalist,聽,聽will speak about her latest book, (Simon & Schuster, 2021).

Born in Iowa, schooled in science at Columbia University, and as American as baseball, George Koval was the ultimate secret agent. Because he had security clearances to the Manhattan Project, he was able to pass invaluable classified information that helped Soviet scientists produce an atomic bomb years earlier than US experts had expected. The FBI only identified him several years after he had returned to the USSR, and in 2007, Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded him Russia鈥檚 highest civilian honor for his contribution to the Soviet atomic program.

This event is free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served.

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Symposium

In the first symposium, scholars offered 20-minute presentations of their works in progress. At our Fall 2023 symposium, scholars will discuss and offer suggestions for how to improve upon pre-circulated chapter drafts.

The discussions will take place in the Special Collections Reading Room in the Peter P. Mercer Learning Commons (LC-216) are open to the public but will not be made available online. The schedule and list of papers will be made available in the near future.

Organizers

Jacob Ari Labendz, Ramapo College, NJ, USA

Rebekah Klein-Pej拧ov谩, Purdue University, IN, USA

Participating Scholars

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Zuzanna Dziuban, Institute of Cultural History and Theatre Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Amy Fedeski, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada [not attending]

Brian Goodman, Arizona State University, AZ, USA

Anna Holzer-Kawa艂ko, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem

Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA

Boris Morozov, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Kunduz Niiazova, Tel Aviv University, Israel

D贸ra Pataricza, 脜bo Akademi University in Turku, Finland

Anat Plocker, Stockton University, NJ, USA

Ran Zwigenberg, PennState, PA, USA

Zohar Segev, University of Haifa, Israel

Pawe艂 Sowi艅ski, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

Jonathan Zisook, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Tentative Schedule

Monday, October 9

16:30聽聽 Welcome Reception (York Room)

18:00聽聽 Keynote Address: Ann Hagedorn, Sleeper Agent (Friends Hall)

20:00聽聽 Dinner, TBD

Tuesday, October 10

9:00 聽 聽 Breakfast, York Room (Mansion)

9:40聽聽聽聽 Welcome to the Center (GC)

10:00聽聽 Kunduz Niiazova

鈥淎 Modern Kyrgyz Dream of the Soviet Kyrgyz-Jewish Intellectuals and Artists Beyond the 鈥業ron Curtain鈥欌��
Respondents: D贸ra Pataricza and Anat Plocker

10:30 聽 Rebekah Klein-Pej拧ov谩

鈥淔ostering Postwar Jewish Community from Slovakia to Canada鈥�
Respondents: Kunduz Niiazova and Anat Plocker

11:00聽聽 Coffee Break

11:15聽 聽Jacob Ari Labendz

鈥淐zech-Jewish Cemeteries as Sites of Cooperation and Conflicting Priorities鈥�
Respondents: Zohar Segev and Ran Zwigenberg

11:45聽聽 Jonathan Dekel-Chen

鈥淲andering Jews as Cold-War Pawns
Respondents: Boris Morozov and Ran Zwigenberg

12:30聽聽 Lunch, York Room (Mansion)

13:30聽聽 Visit to Art Museum, 鈥淣otes on Anarchaeology. Forgery, Iconoclasm, Displacement鈥�

14:30聽聽 Anna Holzer-Kawa艂ko

鈥淐old War and Cultural Restitution: The Hebrew University Restitution Missions in Postwar Eastern Europe鈥�
Respondents: Brian Goodman and Jacob Ari Labendz

15:00听听 Shaul Kelner

鈥淎merican Orthodox Rabbinic Travel to Aid Soviet Jews鈥�
Respondents: Boris Morozov and D贸ra Pataricza

15:30聽聽 Coffee Break

15:45聽 聽D贸ra Pataricza and Vera 脕brah谩m

鈥淔rom Szeget to Jerusalem: the Arduous Travel of Imm谩nuel L枚w鈥檚 Library鈥�
Respondents: Brian Goodman and Jacob Ari Labendz

16:15聽聽 Boris Morozov

鈥淟inks Between the State of Israel and Soviet Jews during the cold War and the Struggle for Aliya鈥�
Respondents: Pawe艂 Sowi艅ski and Jonathan Dekel-Chen

16:45聽 聽Coffee Break

17:00聽聽 Anat Plocker

鈥溾�楢 Dream of Belonging鈥�: The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland鈥�
Respondents: Shaul Kelner and Jonathan Dekel-Chen

17:30聽聽 Return to Hotel

18:40聽聽 Dinner, TBD

Wednesday, October 11

9:00聽聽聽聽 Breakfast, Alumni Lounge

9:45聽 聽 聽Zohar Segev

鈥淒iaspora Nationalism, Migration, and Cultural Revival: American Jewry and the Challenge of European Jewish Diaspora in the Shadow of the Holocaust and Cold War鈥�
Respondents: Yoni Zisook and Rebekah Klein-Pej拧ov谩

10:15聽 聽Yoni Zisook

鈥淧assover for the Passed Over: Jewish Religious Life in the People鈥檚 Republic of Poland, 1968-1989鈥�
Respondents: Kunduz Niiazova and Anna Holzer-Kawa艂ko

10:45聽聽 Coffee break

11:00聽 聽Ran Zwigenberg and Zuzana Dziuban

鈥淗olocaust Ashes on the Move: Incinerated Human Remains as Objects of Global Institutional Exchange鈥�
Respondents: Pawe艂 Sowi艅ski and Zohar Segev

11:30聽 聽Brian Goodman

鈥淔rom Behind a Star: Philip Roth, Rita Klimov谩, and the American Reception of Ji艡铆 Weil鈥�
Respondents: Anna Holzer-Kawa艂ko and Yoni Zisook

12:00聽聽 Coffee Break

12:10聽 聽Pawe艂 Sowi艅ski

鈥淛贸zef Lebenbaum 鈥� ‘a rooted cosmopolitan’ in Sweden, 1969-1989鈥�
Respondents: Shaul Kelner and Rebekah Klein-Pej拧ov谩

12:30聽 聽Packed Lunches

Guests are invited to join the Ramapo Pride Fest, which will run until 4:00 pm

—聽 聽 聽 聽 Amy Fedeski

“When a Refusenik Becomes a Refugee: American Jews鈥� Interactions with Soviet Jewish Migrants during the 1970s”
Dr. Fedeski cannot attend the symposium and we will not be discussing this chapter.