Stories from the Collections: Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
In celebration of Archives Week 2016, archivists Andrey Filimonov and Leanora Lange of the Center for Jewish History talk with Evan Kingsley about his experience growing up in South Florida, a community active in the American Soviet Jewry Movement, and how Andrey helped him reconnect with his Bar Mitzvah twin through the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society.
Elusive Emancipation: Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Beyond
The majority of the world's Jews entered the 20th century unemancipated. Most of that majority lived in what is today Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania, at the time part of the Russian Empire. Join Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania) as he explores why emancipation came so late to the empire of the tsars, what role Jews played in its arrival, and how the Bolshevik Revolution recast the meaning of emancipation itself, with consequences that are still with us today.