October 27, 2009

Dubrow Talk on Lazar Weiner at Milstein Conference in NYC

MILSTEIN CONFERENCE ON NEW YORK AND THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009, 9:30 AM - 7:30 PM. ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
MILSTEINCONFERENCE@YIVO.CJH.ORG or 212-294-6157


One day public conference celebrating history of Jewish life in New York, achievements of Jewish communal organizations, treasures of Jewish archives. Conference marks culmination of 3 years of work on the Milstein Family Jewish Communal Archive Project. Morning Sessions feature presentation on Jewish organizational archives and a roundtable discussion by Jewish agency leaders, Afternoon focuses on papers by scholars on a wide range of political, social and cultural issues and the evening session features a discussion by New York area archivists to discuss the rich resources found in New York and how to preserve them for the future. Funded by the Milstein Family Foundation and the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation. Organized by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in partnership with the 92nd Street Y, the Educational Alliance, F.E.G.S Health and Human Service System, NYANA and Surprise Lake Camp. Archival repositories participating: Archives of American Jewish Committee, Hadassah, HIAS, JDC, Yeshiva University and YIVO. DATE: Monday, November 2, 2009. 9:30 to 7:30 pm. Place: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, NY. Full details at www.yivo.org Upcoming Programs.

ADVANCE REGISTRATON REQUIRED: RSVP: milsteinconference@yivo.cjh.org milsteinconference@yivo.cjh.org or call 212-294-6157.

3 sessions in the afternoon 1:00-5:30: AFTERNOON PROGRAM

"EXPLORING CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEMES IN THE NEW YORK JEWISH EXPERIENCE: AN ACADEMIC DISCUSSION"
3 sessions in the afternoon
"Overcoming Barriers: Integrating into American Life"
Moderator: Hasia Diner, New York University.
Shira Kohn, "Educated Advocates: Jewish Responses to the Discrimination Debates at New York Colleges and Universities, 1945-1960"

Kirsten Fermaglich, "From Mordechai to Max: Name-changing in New York City Landsmanschaft Records, 1875-1975"

Miyuki Kita, "Breaking the 'Gentleman's Agreement': Jews and the 1945 New York Fair Employment Practices Act."

"Displaced Persons, Social Welfare, and the Role of New York Communal Agencies at Home and Abroad"

Moderator: Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca Kobrin, , Columbia University,. "Beyond the Myth of Mobility: Jewish Social Welfare Agencies, Jewish Immigrant Professionals and the Challenges of Adaptation to Life in New York City, 1948-1954"

Beth B. Cohen, "Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America"

Heidi Heft LaPorte and David Strug, "The Role of the New York Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in the Child Welfare Cuban Refugee Service Program"

Rebecca Cutler, " New York and the Transnational Activism of American Jews in the Post World War II Era."

"Media, the Arts and the Jewish Communal Agenda."

Moderator: Hadassah Kosak, Yeshiva University

Marsha A. Dubrow, "Playing Musical Chairs: Lazar Weiner and New York's Shifting Jewish Communal Musical Landscape of the 1920s through the 1960s"

Roberta Newman, "Delayed Pilgrims: The Radio Programs of the United Service for New Americans, 1947-1948"

Ellen Kellman, "Aiding the Immigrant Reader: The Jewish Daily Forward and its "Gallery of Husbands Who Have Disappeared" (ca. 1909)

6:15 - 7:30 EVENING PROGRAM

"PRESERVING THE TREASURES OF NEW YORK JEWISH ARCHIVES: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION"

Moderator: Steven Siegel, Archivist, 92nd Street Y Archives. Discussion by New York area archivists, presentations on the treasures and collections of local Jewish archives and a public dialogue on the challenges facing Jewish archives today.

Archives and panelists include: American Jewish Committee Archives, Charlotte Bonelli, Chief Archivist; Hadassah Archives, Susan Woodland, Archivist; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Archives, Valery Bazarov, Director, Location and Family History Service; The JDC Archives, Linda Levi, Assistant Vice-President and Director of Archives; Yeshiva University Archives, Shulamit Berger and Deena Schwimmer, Archivists; YIVO Archives, Ettie Goldwasser, Archives Projects Coordinator, and Fruma Mohrer, Chief Archivist.

Posted by jmwc at October 27, 2009 11:24 AM