Cynthia Paces is a professor of modern European history at the College of New Jersey. She is the author of Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), where she investigates the … Read more
Mikhail Krutikov is Preston R. Tisch professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 (Stanford University Press, 2001) and From Kabbalah to … Read more
This presentation will examine how acculturated Jewish composers and lyricists created the new phenomena of sophisticated popular music and literary cabaret in interwar Poland. The revues featuring these artists’ witty songs and character-oriented sketches offered their upper-to-middle-class audience entertainment that … Read more
Amanda Bellows (UNC-Chapel Hill) will present on “Images of Serfs and Slaves in Russian and American National Art, 1861-1905.” ‣ Paper abstract Seeking to comprehend the successes and disappointments of the decades that followed the abolition of serfdom (1861) and slavery … Read more
