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Program

.11/25/2025
12:00 pm
12:15 pm
Conference Opening
12:15 pm
1:45 pm
Cinema Hall
Archival Collections
Moderator: Alexandra Kiselyova
Mikhail Arsenyev
National Library of Russia, St Petersburg
King Baldwin, the Ismailis, and the “Uncircumcised” in Records on Scrolls from A. S. Firkovich’s Second Collection
Germina Gordienko
Independent researcher
Cataloguing the Jewish Collection of the Dramatic Censorship Archive at the St Petersburg State Theatre Library online
Semyon Charny
Vaad Interregional Public Organization, Moscow
The Myth of Betar: New Documents
Auditorium 3
Mountain Jews
Moderator: Vladimir Kolesov
Ksenia Viktorova
European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg
Dialect Divisions in the Juhuri Language Based on Recent Field Research
Arusyak Agababyan
Independent researcher
“These Are Jews from Azerbaijan”: Ethnographic Notes on the Vartashen Jews of Pyatigorsk online
1:45 pm
2:45 pm
Break
2:45 pm
4:15 pm
Cinema Hall
Holocaust Memory — Session 1
Moderator: Maria Gavrilova
Irina Kozlova
RANEPA, Moscow
Victory Day Celebrations in Jewish Families: Memories and Practices
Victoria Khilkevich
Armavir Linguistic Social Institute, Armavir
The Memorialization of Holocaust Sites: The Case of Krasnodar Krai
Valeria Shpinkova
HSE University, Moscow
Holocaust Memory Policy in Kaliningrad Oblast: An Analysis of Interaction among Mnemonic Actors
Auditorium 3
Visual Representations
Moderator: Svetlana Pakhomova
Lyubov Solovyova
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Drawings by the Artist Alexander Davidovich Kornoukhov from Krasnaya Sloboda
Ulyana Yegorova
St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg
The Influence of the National Traditions and Everyday Life of Belarusian Jews in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries on the Image of the Bride in Chaïm Soutine’s Work
Fyodor Trofimov
Russian State University for the Humanities
The Kaunas Ghetto through George Kadish’s Lens: Photographs against All Odds
4:15 pm
4:30 pm
Coffee Break
4:30 pm
5:30 pm
Cinema Hall
Moderator: Anna Kirzyuk
Dmitry Popov
HSE University, Moscow
Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Jewish Community in Sweden
Xuan Jing
Zhejiang University, China
Spoken but Unheard: Sexual Violence and Silence in Holocaust Memory in English online
Auditorium 3
Moderator: Valeria Kosyakova
Svetlana Pakhomova
Russian State University for the Humanities; Museum of Jewish History in Russia, Moscow
The Voice of the One-and-a-Half Generation of Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Contemporary Israeli Television Series
Mikhail Shapovalov
University of Tyumen, Tyumen
Transfers of the Western Wall: Visual and Symbolic Adaptations in Eastern European Contexts online
5:30 pm
6:30 pm
Book Presentation
Moderator: Maria Zarkh

The presentation will feature new academic and popular scholarship on Jewish history, culture, and written heritage. Participants will meet the authors and editors, learn about the preparation of the publications and the sources underlying the research, and explore current trends in the humanities.

The event will be hosted by Maria Zarkh. The featured publications will be discussed, and attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and take part in an open discussion.

.11/26/2025
12:00 pm
2:00 pm
Cinema Hall
Jewish History in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries — Session 1
Moderator: Semyon Padalko
Olga Minkina
Independent researcher
Jewish Everyday Life in the First Half of the 19th Century through the Lens of Russian Criminal Proceedings online
Victoria Gerasimova
Sefer Center
Between Center and Periphery: Was There an Imperial Practice of Baptizing Jews in the Russian Empire? online
Diana Tsvetkova
State Public Historical Library of Russia, Moscow
The Jewish Question in the Russian Empire, 1880–1907, and the Orthodox Clergy: Based on the Diocesan Press of Ten Imperial Provinces
Ekaterina Norkina
St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg
Pastor A. Pierr and the Baptism of Jews according to the Lutheran Rite in the Early 20th Century
Auditorium 3
Jewish Maps in Perm
Moderator: Valery Dymshits
Svetlana Amosova, Anastasia Deka, Elena Fomenko
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
The Jewish Maps Project
Yulia Kuzovaya
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Paulina Zhiltsova
Independent researcher
The Perm Synagogue in the Soviet Era and Today
Mikhail Ostroukhov
Zhivaya Starina journal; Polenov State Russian House of Folk Art, Moscow
Strategies for Representing Jewish Identity and History in In-Depth Interviews Intended for External Audiences: Materials from the 2025 Perm Expedition
Anna Patrusheva
Ural Federal University; Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg
Ekaterina Chuprun
Independent researcher
Field Research on Jewish Community Buildings in Perm Using Methods of Digital and Urban Anthropology hybrid
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm
5:00 pm
Cinema Hall
Ego-Documents and Family Archives — Session 1
Moderator: Galina Zelenina
Maria Nesterenko
New Literary Observer; Azbooka, St Petersburg
The Year 1917 in Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik’s Diary
Victoria Kosyakova
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Zinaida Gafurova
Moscow Children's Music and Drama Theatre, Moscow
Secretaries, Assistants, Friends: P. Fogelman (Atasheva), V. Milman, and K. Vaks
Nikolai Lysenkov
Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
Reconstructing the Kaganovich Family’s Kinship and Friendship Networks through Photographs from the Family Archive
Auditorium 3
Field Research on Communities and Media
Moderator: Svetlana Amosova
Anastasia Yermoshina
Kuban State University, Krasnodar
“In the Footsteps of Seekers of Happiness”: Results of an Expedition to the Jewish Autonomous Region
Valery Dymshits
European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg
The Jewish Field in the Jewish Autonomous Region: Opportunities and Prospects
Arina Kuznetsova
St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg
Shidduch in Eastern Europe: From the Shadkhan’s Lists to Online Matchmaking online
Anastasia Krovitskaya
HSE University, Moscow
The Mediatization of Religious Practices in Jewish Communities in Russia: Orthodox and Progressive Judaism
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
Coffee Break
5:30 pm
6:30 pm
Cinema Hall
Jewish History in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries — Session 2
Moderator: Ekaterina Norkina
Vladimir Kolesov
Independent researcher
Travel Notes of Bishop Vladimir of Stavropol and Ekaterinodar (1886) as a Source on the History and Culture of the Dzhegon Mountain Jews
Semyon Padalko
St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg
Archival Discoveries in Vladikavkaz: Toward a History of Jewish Institutions in Terek Oblast
Ivan Kachanovich
Independent researcher
Jewish Kadets in the Third State Duma: Strategies and Tactics for Addressing the Jewish Question
Auditorium 3
Ego-Documents and Family Archives — Session 2
Moderator: Elena Vladimirski
Anton Valkovsky
Independent researcher and curator
“Every Letter of My Correspondence Is Spattered with Blood”: Personal Documents in the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
Galina Zelenina
Lomonosov Moscow State University; RANEPA, Moscow
“I Lived My Life the Right Way”: Moral Instruction in Soviet Jewish Ego-Documents and Its Historical and Cultural Dimension
Anastasia Deka
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
“Grandmother Would Have Torn the Whole House Down,” or the Jewish Identity of Members of the Perm Jewish Community
.11/27/2025
12:00 pm
2:30 pm
Cinema Hall
Jewish Cultural Heritage in Georgia and Azerbaijan
Moderator: Mikhail Arsenyev
Maria Litvinova
HSE University, Moscow
Ksenia Kaplya
Sevastopol Branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sevastopol
A Survey of the Jewish Cemetery in Batumi
Ekaterina Karaseva
Sefer Center
Mikhail Vasilyev
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Researching and Cataloguing the Jewish Cemeteries of Krasnaya Sloboda: Results of the 2025 Field Season hybrid
Yulia Oreshina
Georgian American University, Georgia
The Urban Landscape as a Palimpsest of Memory: The Former Jewish Quarter of Kutaisi online
Maria Litvinova
HSE University, Moscow
Yana Aznabaeva
St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg
The History and Ethnocultural Characteristics of the Jewish Community of Batumi hybrid
Auditorium 3
20th-Century History
Moderator: Anastasia Deka
Elena Vladimirski
Achva Academic College, Israel
Sources and Approaches to the Study of Jewish Emigration in Harbin, 1920s–1950s
Mikhail Saprykin
Independent researcher
The Belarusian State Jewish Theatre at the First All-Union Olympiad of Theatres and Arts of the Peoples of the USSR
Mikhail Itskovich
Metricum Center for Historical Research, Samara
Jewish Cultural Workers in Early Soviet Samara: A Sketch for a Collective Portrait
Giorgi Zazunishvili
Georgian American University, Georgia
Adapting to the Soviet Order: Jewish Collective Farms and Local Realities in Early Soviet Georgia in English
Serafima Velkovich
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
An Organized Escape to Freedom: The Case of the Chabad-Lubavitch Community online
2:30 pm
3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm
5:30 pm
Cinema Hall
Holocaust Memory — Session 2
Moderator: Irina Kozlova
Anna Kirzyuk
RANEPA, Moscow
Collective Assistance to Jews in Oral Holocaust Narratives
Maria Gavrilova
RANEPA; Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Commemorating the Young Pioneer Hero Musya Pinkenzon in Bălți, Moldova
Sergey Belyanin
RANEPA; Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Narratives of Rescue through “Mimicry” or Deception in Holocaust Testimonies
Ekaterina Zakrevskaya
Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Oral Narratives about the Betrayal of Jews during the Occupation: Generational Dynamics, Ethnic Background, and Narrators’ Values
Auditorium
Libraries and Museums
Moderator: Elena Fomenko
Ekaterina Belkina
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences; St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg
The Expansion of the Asian Museum’s Jewish Collections in St Petersburg through the Archives of David Maggid
Ksenia Semashko
Zaslavl Museum-Reserve of History and Culture, Belarus
Presenting the Forgotten Jewish Heritage of the Shtetl of Loyew In and Beyond the Museum through Non-Museum Methods
Hienadz Sivokhin
Zaslavl Museum-Reserve of History and Culture, Belarus
The Anthropology of Belarusian Jewish Shtetls and Its Representation through Public History: The Zaslavl Museum-Reserve of History and Culture
Alexandra Kiselyova
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
The Jewish Museum Library: Where Do We Come From, Who Are We, Where Are We Going?
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
Coffee Break
6:00 pm
7:30 pm
Cinema Hall
Fieldwork in Mountain Jewish Communities
Moderator: Ksenia Viktorova
Polina Taran
European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg
“The Land of the Ancestors”: Returning to Krasnaya Sloboda in Mountain Jewish Narratives and Practices (Preliminary Results of Fieldwork in Krasnaya Sloboda, August 2025)
Pyotr Matveev
European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg
Beit Sfaradi: The Private and the Communal in Educational Design
Svetlana Amosova, Elena Fomenko
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
The “Perm Period” of the Mountain Jewish Community
Auditorium 3
Memorialization and Heritage
Moderator: Anton Valkovsky
Elena Berman
Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk
“In the Footsteps of Irkutsk’s Jewish History” Guided Tourist Routes as a Tool for Preserving Historical Memory and Promoting Jewish Heritage online
Ekaterina Malinovskaya
Museum-Reserve of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol, Sevastopol
On Memorializing the Heroism of Jewish Soldiers Who Defended Sevastopol in 1854–1855
Aliya Mursalova
Azerbaijan Institute of Theology, Azerbaijan
Jewish Memory and Narrative among Muslims in Azerbaijan: An Analysis of Cultural Landscapes and Field Materials from Krasnaya Sloboda online
7:30 pm
8:30 pm
Conference Closing and Conclusions