To a packed house of more than 400 people, on Sunday, February 22, David Shneer,听Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History听and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies,听gave 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.听 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.听 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 7PM听(local time), Shneer鈥檚 new book,听, about the Dutch Jewish, Yiddish singer and Holocaust survivor Lin Jaldati, will have its听听at the Berlin Jewish Community headquarters, Fasanenstrasse 79-80.听 In Shneer鈥檚 absence, Jaldati鈥檚 daughter and Shneer鈥檚 collaborator, Jalda Rebling, will give a talk about her mother鈥檚 life.听 This event will be in German.
This past听Saturday, March 7听蹿谤辞尘听1PM 鈥� 4PM,听听丑辞蝉迟别诲听Shneer听for a mini-course seminar exploring the听new and growing field of Post-Holocaust American Judaism studies. This is the Program in Jewish Studies鈥� inaugural event at the new 抖阴旅行射 South Denver campus in Parker.听Post 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.听 From Brooklyn-based Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism to 1960s 鈥楧o-It-Yourself鈥� Judaism and American Zionism, this mini-course examined American Judaism from World War II to the present. Professor Shneer will paid听particular attention to materials now housed at the University of Colorado Library Archives and Special Collections听Post Holocaust American Judaism Archive, which contains materials documenting this movement, from Arthur Waskow鈥檚 Freedom Seders to Zalman Schachter Shalomi鈥檚 early ideas about deep ecumenicism.