Being Jewish in the Soviet Union – The Interwar Years

The Ghetto Fighters’ House invited you to a new series:

Jews in the Soviet Union: A Complex Narrative

Join us for the first program on Sunday, February 16th:

Being Jewish in the Soviet Union – The Interwar Years

Opening Remarks:

Yigal Cohen, CEO, Ghetto Fighters’ House

Guest Speakers:

Prof. Elissa Bemporad

Revolution and New Ways of Life: Jews in Interwar Soviet Union

Liat Margalit, Curator, Ghetto Fighters’ House

Among the Trees Exhibition – Curatorial Challenges and Dilemmas

The Ghetto Fighters’ House recently launched a new permanent exhibition, “Among the Trees – The Holocaust in the Soviet Union” that commemorates the Jews of the former Soviet Union, in the interwar years, through their shared fate under the Nazi occupation, and after the war. This series will explore these three periods and the experiences of Soviet Jewry.

The first program will focus on the interwar years. The first speaker, Professor Elissa Bemporad, will describe the ways in which Jews endured, adjusted to, and participated in the Soviet system both as individuals and as part of a Jewish collectivity during the first decades of its existence. Our second speaker, Liat Margalit, exhibition curator at the Ghetto Fighters’ House, will talk about the challenges and dilemmas she faced while researching and developing the exhibition Among the Trees.

This program is in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, Classrooms Without Borders and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.

2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM SAST | 9 PM IST