To a packed house of more than 400 people, on Sunday, February 22, David Shneer,ÌýLouis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish HistoryÌýand Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies,Ìýgave the keynote lecture at the for the opening of Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust, the photography exhibition based on his award-winning book.Ìý The next morning, in honor of the Day in Honor of Defenders of the Fatherland, a Soviet-era holiday that once was called Soviet Army Day, Shneer gave the same talk in Russian to a crowd of 150 Soviet Jewish war veterans and Holocaust survivors.
This is the first time the show has been presented bilingually in Russian and English, and one of the few shows travelling the country in Russian.Ìý The Chicago Russian-speaking community warmly received Shneer, gave him materials that are now being deposited in the Mazal Holocaust Collection in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive, and made sure to let him know that his mother must be proud.
Shneer was also featured on local Chicago radio station, WBEZ 91.5, highlighting his new exhibit.
On Wednesday, March 25 at 7PMÌý(local time), Shneer’s new book,Ìý, about the Dutch Jewish, Yiddish singer and Holocaust survivor Lin Jaldati, will have itsÌýÌýat the Berlin Jewish Community headquarters, Fasanenstrasse 79-80.Ìý In Shneer’s absence, Jaldati’s daughter and Shneer’s collaborator, Jalda Rebling, will give a talk about her mother’s life.Ìý This event will be in German.
This pastÌýSaturday, March 7Ìý´Ú°ù´Ç³¾Ìý1PM – 4PM,ÌýÌý³ó´Ç²õ³Ù±ð»åÌýShneerÌýfor a mini-course seminar exploring theÌýnew and growing field of Post-Holocaust American Judaism studies. This is the Program in Jewish Studies’ inaugural event at the new CU South Denver campus in Parker.ÌýPost World War II America is often characterized negatively by suburbanization and the rise of a bland consumer culture obsessed with accumulation rather than reflection. But it is also the period when the United States became the fertile petri dish for new kinds of Judaism.Ìý From Brooklyn-based Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism to 1960s ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Judaism and American Zionism, this mini-course examined American Judaism from World War II to the present. Professor Shneer will paidÌýparticular attention to materials now housed at the University of Colorado Library Archives and Special CollectionsÌýPost Holocaust American Judaism Archive, which contains materials documenting this movement, from Arthur Waskow’s Freedom Seders to Zalman Schachter Shalomi’s early ideas about deep ecumenicism.