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When: 
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: 
Hillel House
Presenter: 
Sasha Senderovich
Price: 
Free
What has been the place of Soviet and Russian Jewry in American Jewish identity? During the Cold War, as Jews in the United States and elsewhere advocated for the right for Soviet Jews to freely emigrate from the Soviet Union, they created an image of the Soviet Jew as oppressed, persecuted, and downtrodden. During this talk, Dr. Senderovich will consider the repercussions of this image in contemporary post-Soviet rhetoric in America and elsewhere. Together, we will examine how contemporary literature by young Russian-born American Jewish writers questions, critiques, or mocks the image of the Soviet Jew that Jews in the West created. Lunch will be provided. Dr. Senderovich received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 2010, and has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Tufts University since that time. He will be a visiting professor at Lafayette College next Fall, teaching: “World Cinemas: Russian and Soviet Film” (FAMS 270/REES 270), “Special Topics Seminar: Dostoevsky” (REES 265/CL 265) and “Eastern Europe in the Jewish Imagination” (AMST 362/REES 362).
Sponsored by: 
Hillel Society

Contact information

Name: 
Rebecca Metzger
Phone: 
610-330-5154
Email: 
metzgerr@lafayette.edu