On February 1-5, 2020, the Planernoye hotel near Moscow hosted a Winter school on Juwish Studies, organized by the Sefer Center with the support of International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Genesis Philanthropy Group, The Russian Jewish Congress, and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. The school was attended by 15 teachers from Israel and Russia, 82 students and 9 anthropologists -researchers of Mountain Jews from Belarus, Israel, Russia and Ukraine, 3 general attendants
This year, the organizers of the school decided to move away from the narrow thematic framework and create a mosaic, not limited to a single topic, set of courses of lectures covering different eras and countries.
As part of the winter school, was held a city expedition on the cultural and social anthropology of mountain Jews. The participants conducted interviews with representatives of the Moscow mountain-Jewish community under the leadership of A. Agababyan, V. Dymshits and M. Chlenov.
In addition to lectures, students could attend master classes on Jewish epigraphy (by A. Fishel), on Jewish manuscripts (By A. Gordin) , and on writing English annotations (By L. Privalskaya).
Moscow Winter School on Jewish Studies
Judaic Mosaic
On February 1-5, 2020, the Planernoye hotel near Moscow will host a Winter school on Jewish Studies, organized by the Sefer Center in cooperation with the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with the support of Genesis Philanthropy Group, The Russian Jewish Congress, and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.
This year, the organizers of the school decided to move away from the narrow thematic framework and make a mosaic, not limited to a single topic, a set of courses of lectures covering different eras and countries. At the same time, in our opinion, this mosaic is combined into a colorful overall picture reflecting the richness and diversity of Jewish civilization.
Payment for travel of nonresident participants to Moscow is not provided.
All participants (except nonresident participants, who paid their transportation costs) shall pay the participation fee in the amount of 2000 rubles. Applications for participation in the School (online application form) are accepted until December 10, 2019.
For a description of the courses, see the table below. Reports on the results of the competitive selection for the Winter school will be sent out by December 17, 2019
Session 1 |
Session 2 |
Session 3 |
Andrey Desnitsky
Bible translation: how it's done today |
Natalya Kireeva
"In the wilderness make a way": the Judean desert as topos |
Mikhail Freikman
The country of Israel in the era of The first Temple
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Alexander Gordin Calendar and chronology of medieval Jewish sources |
Vladislav Zeev Slepoy, Dilshat Harman Jews of late medieval Germany |
Sergey Ivanov, Vladimir Petrukhin
Jews of Byzantium, Khazaria and Ancient Russia |
Alexander Valdman As it was done in Krichev: the Jews of the Russian Empire in micro-historical perspective |
Maria Endel
Imagining Rabbi Nachman |
Andrey Zavadskiy
The memory of the Holocaust in the Museum and beyond |