Program

.11/04/2018

11:30 am
12:30 pm

Epigraphic Field Research

Moderator: Mikhail Kizilov

Mikhail Vasilyev

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Research on Jewish Cemeteries in Southern Dagestan: Field Materials and Preliminary Results of a Sefer Center Expedition

Ekaterina Karaseva

Sefer Center

The Jewish Cemetery in Starodub: Research Questions and Empirical Answers

Yulia Len

“We Lied to Our Beloved Grandfather…”: What the Berdychiv Necropolis Reveals and the Archives Leave Unsaid

12:30 pm
1:30 pm

Research on the Culture and Folklore of Shtetls in Ukraine and Moldova

Moderator:

Valery Dymshits

European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg

What Do We Study in Former Jewish Shtetls? The Relationship between Methods and Research Objectives

Maria Kaspina

Results of the 2018 Field Season: Rîbnița

2:15 pm
3:15 pm

Field Research in the Caucasus

Moderator: Valery Dymshits

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

Fieldwork in the Jewish Community of Derbent: From Questionnaire to Interview

Yulia Andreeva

Fieldwork with an Isolated Religious Community in Armenia: Avoidance, Missionary Activity, and Informants’ Accountability Practices

3:15 pm
4:00 pm

The Institutional Organization of Fieldwork: Challenges and Prospects

Moderator: Mikhail Vasilyev

Irina Kopchenova

The Sefer Center Research Project: Fifteen Years of Expedition School Experience and Prospects for Future Field Seasons

Yury Plyusnin

Jewish Studies Supported by the Khamovniki Foundation: Significance and Development Plans

4:00 pm
5:00 pm

Field Projects on Interethnic Relations: Old Believers and Jews

Moderator: Yulia Andreeva

Grigory Bondarenko, Mikhail Kizilov

Old Believers and Jews: Ethnocultural and Interfaith Contacts between Old Believers and Jews in the Russian Empire, the USSR, and the CIS, Past and Present (Based on Field Research)

Natalia Dushakova

Of Saints, Doctors, and Neighbors: Studying Memories of Jews in an Old Believer Field

5:00 pm
6:30 pm

Oral History of Siberian and Birobidzhan Jews

Moderator: Maxim Gammal

Yury Plyusnin, Mikhail Chernov

The Jewish Communities of Crimea and Birobidzhan: What Remains of the “Jewish Republics”

Victoria Gerasimova

Sefer Center

Conducting Historical Interviews with Siberian Jews: Preliminary Findings

Maria Makarova

Was There Antisemitism in Birobidzhan? Interviews with Birobidzhan Residents and Outsiders and Archival Documents

6:30 pm
7:00 pm

Presentation of Books on Field Research in Jewish Studies

Moderator: Irina Dushakova