  {"id":3294,"date":"2023-08-30T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/?page_id=3294"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:56:52","slug":"center-academic-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/center-academic-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"CHGS Publishing Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Year 1: Scholars present formal papers at Ramapo College<br \/>\nYear 2: Scholars circulate chapter drafts, which are discussed at a second meeting at Ramapo College<br \/>\nYear 3: CHGS and the contributors compile an edited volume for submission to an academic press<br \/>\nYear 4: Publishing continues and the theme for the next cycle is developed<\/p>\n<p>We encourage scholars and centers interested in partnering with us on future symposia: holgen@ramapo.edu.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800000;font-family: Oswald, sans-serif;font-size: 24px;font-weight: bold;text-align: center\">Our First Symposium Cycle is Nearing Fruition<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.purdue.edu\/9781626712645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4952 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/Keeping-Contact-JPEG.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover for Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders, edited by Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1 and Jacob Ari Labendz. The background features a colorful, chaotic collage of various images and symbols.\" width=\"298\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/Keeping-Contact-JPEG.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/Keeping-Contact-JPEG-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders (Purdue University Press, 2026)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1 (Purdue University) and Jacob Ari Labendz (Ramapo College)<\/p>\n<p><em>Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives Across Cold War Borders<\/em> 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\u2019 reprised visits to the USSR, wholesale movement of libraries, dissent, dashed dreams of belonging, and urns of ashes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.purdue.edu\/9781626712645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-order <em>Keeping Contact.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>CONTACT: The Movement and Meeting of Jewish People and Artifacts across Cold-War Boundaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>October 9 &#8211; 11, 2023 at the Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cla.purdue.edu\/academic\/sis\/p\/jewish-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jewish Studies Program at Purdue University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishstudies.ysu.edu\/?page_id=733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first symposium<\/a> was held in May, 2022 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngstownohiosteelmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youngstown Historical Center of Industry &amp; Labor<\/a> (Steel Museum).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">Keynote Address: Ann Hagedorn<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>October 9 at 6:00 PM (Hybrid: Friends Hall and Zoom)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_UpFaJedPRyq1NCK2yCnOfg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register for Zoom in Advance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Acclaimed author and journalist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annhagedorn.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ann Hagedorn<\/a>,\u00a0will speak about her latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Sleeper-Agent\/Ann-Hagedorn\/9781501173950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away<\/em><\/a> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2021).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Sleeper-Agent-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3249 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Sleeper-Agent-Cover-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of &quot;Sleeper Agent.&quot; It is red with a beige figure of a man in a hat. The title is written in black over his body.\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Sleeper-Agent-Cover-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/08\/Sleeper-Agent-Cover.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><em>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\u2019s highest civilian honor for his contribution to the Soviet atomic program.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This event is free and open to the public.<br \/>\nLight refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Symposium<\/h4>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Organizers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacob Ari Labendz, Ramapo College, NJ, USA<\/p>\n<p>Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1, Purdue University, IN, USA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Participating Scholars<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel<\/p>\n<p>Zuzanna Dziuban, Institute of Cultural History and Theatre Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Amy Fedeski, Queen&#8217;s University, Ontario, Canada [not attending]<\/p>\n<p>Brian Goodman, Arizona State University, AZ, USA<\/p>\n<p>Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>Shaul Kelner, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA<\/p>\n<p>Boris Morozov, Tel Aviv University, Israel<\/p>\n<p>Kunduz Niiazova, Tel Aviv University, Israel<\/p>\n<p>D\u00f3ra Pataricza, \u00c5bo Akademi University in Turku, Finland<\/p>\n<p>Anat Plocker, Stockton University, NJ, USA<\/p>\n<p>Ran Zwigenberg, PennState, PA, USA<\/p>\n<p>Zohar Segev, University of Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n<p>Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski, Polish Academy of Science, Poland<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Zisook, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Tentative Schedule<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Monday, October 9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333\">16:30\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome Reception (York Room)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333\">18:00\u00a0\u00a0 Keynote Address: Ann Hagedorn, <em>Sleeper Agent<\/em> (Friends Hall)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333\">20:00\u00a0\u00a0 Dinner, TBD<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Tuesday, October 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>9:00 \u00a0 \u00a0 Breakfast, York Room (Mansion)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>9:40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome to the Center (GC)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00\u00a0\u00a0 Kunduz Niiazova<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cA Modern Kyrgyz Dream of the Soviet Kyrgyz-Jewish Intellectuals and Artists Beyond the \u2018Iron Curtain\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: D\u00f3ra Pataricza and Anat Plocker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 \u00a0 Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cFostering Postwar Jewish Community from Slovakia to Canada\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Kunduz Niiazova and Anat Plocker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333300\"><strong>11:00\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333300\"><strong>11:15\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>Jacob Ari Labendz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cCzech-Jewish Cemeteries as Sites of Cooperation and Conflicting Priorities\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Zohar Segev and Ran Zwigenberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:45\u00a0\u00a0 Jonathan Dekel-Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cWandering Jews as Cold-War Pawns<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Boris Morozov and Ran Zwigenberg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:30\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch, York Room (Mansion)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>13:30\u00a0\u00a0 Visit to Art Museum, \u201cNotes on Anarchaeology. Forgery, Iconoclasm, Displacement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14:30\u00a0\u00a0 Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cCold War and Cultural Restitution: The Hebrew University Restitution Missions in Postwar Eastern Europe\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Brian Goodman and Jacob Ari Labendz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>15:00\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Shaul Kelner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cAmerican Orthodox Rabbinic Travel to Aid Soviet Jews\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Boris Morozov and D\u00f3ra Pataricza<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>15:30\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>15:45\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>D\u00f3ra Pataricza and Vera \u00c1brah\u00e1m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cFrom Szeget to Jerusalem: the Arduous Travel of Imm\u00e1nuel L\u00f6w\u2019s Library\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Brian Goodman and Jacob Ari Labendz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>16:15\u00a0\u00a0 Boris Morozov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cLinks Between the State of Israel and Soviet Jews during the cold War and the Struggle for Aliya\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski and Jonathan Dekel-Chen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>16:45\u00a0 \u00a0Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00\u00a0\u00a0 Anat Plocker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201c\u2018A Dream of Belonging\u2019: The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Shaul Kelner and Jonathan Dekel-Chen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>17:30\u00a0\u00a0 Return to Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18:40\u00a0\u00a0 Dinner, TBD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Wednesday, October 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Breakfast, Alumni Lounge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Zohar Segev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cDiaspora Nationalism, Migration, and Cultural Revival: American Jewry and the Challenge of European Jewish Diaspora in the Shadow of the Holocaust and Cold War\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Yoni Zisook and Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:15\u00a0 \u00a0Yoni Zisook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cPassover for the Passed Over: Jewish Religious Life in the People\u2019s Republic of Poland, 1968-1989\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Kunduz Niiazova and Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:45\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #333300\"><strong>Ran Zwigenberg and Zuzana Dziuban<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cHolocaust Ashes on the Move: Incinerated Human Remains as <em>Objects <\/em>of Global Institutional Exchange\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski and Zohar Segev<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>11:30\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>Brian Goodman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cFrom Behind a Star: Philip Roth, Rita Klimov\u00e1, and the American Reception of Ji\u0159\u00ed Weil\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Anna Holzer-Kawa\u0142ko and Yoni Zisook<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:10\u00a0 \u00a0Pawe\u0142 Sowi\u0144ski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u201cJ\u00f3zef Lebenbaum \u2013 &#8216;a rooted cosmopolitan&#8217; in Sweden, 1969-1989\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Respondents: Shaul Kelner and Rebekah Klein-Pej\u0161ov\u00e1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:30\u00a0 \u00a0Packed Lunches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">Guests are invited to join the Ramapo Pride Fest, which will run until 4:00 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Amy Fedeski<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">&#8220;When a Refusenik Becomes a Refugee: American Jews\u2019 Interactions with Soviet Jewish Migrants during the 1970s&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">Dr. Fedeski cannot attend the symposium and we will not be discussing this chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_0395.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3867 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_0395-300x106.jpg\" alt=\"People seated at tables at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College \" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_0395-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_0395.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"row colSet\">\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 \">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_7705-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3868 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_7705-scaled-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"People seated at tables at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_7705-scaled-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_7705-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_7705-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_7705-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2024\/08\/CHGS-IMG_7705-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 \">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/IMG_7709-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/IMG_7709-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/IMG_7709-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/IMG_7709-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/IMG_7709-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/IMG_7709-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/IMG_7709-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College operates a multi-year publishing symposium with generous support from the S. 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