The Taube Center for Jewish Studies is proud to present:

The Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture Series

with Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University in Bloomington

Monday, May 7, 2012 5:15 pm
World War II in the Soviet Shtetl: From the Shoah to Victory Day
Margaret Jacks Hall (bldg. 460) - Terrace Room (426)

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 12:00 noon
Jewish Life in the Soviet Shtetl
History Corner (bldg. 200) - Room 307

For the last decade, the speaker has been conducting a major ethnographic study of surviving shtetls in Eastern Europe, compiling some 900 hours of videotaped oral history, primarily in Yiddish, that will soon be made into a documentary. Each of these talks, sponsored by the Clara Sumpf Yiddish Lecture series, will speak to what this research reveals about the history of Russian and Yiddish speaking Jews.

Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies