VI Conference "Jewish Field Studies: Findings, Experiences, and Conceptualization"

VI Conference

“Jewish Field Studies: Findings, Experiences, and Conceptualization”
 November 22-23, 2023 Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (Moscow)

November 22, 2023
(Participants meet at 11:30 at the Movie theater)

12:00 – 14:30 (GMT +3:00) Interdisciplinary research
Moderator: Anastasia Deka

• Svetlana Pakhomova (MSSES, Moscow). Jewish wedding in Soviet movies of 1920–1930s within the context of ethnographic research by Isai Pulner
• Valeria Novikova (HSE, Saint Petersburg). “Insider” and/or “outsider”: ethical problems encountered by an empathic anthropologist when studying a Reform Jewish community
• Anastasia Krovitskaya (RSUH, HSE, Moscow). Mediatization of Judaism in Russia: analysis of synagogues’ Telegram channels
• Ksenia Viktorova (“Petersburg Judaica”, EUSP, Saint Petersburg). Field studies of Yiddish in the modern day Petersburg
• Reviva Hasson (Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town). Shifting Sands: Jewish Emigration from South Africa in the Post-Apartheid Era (online, English)

15:30 – 17:30 (GMT +3:00) Jewish communities of Caucasus Moderator: Elena Fomenko

• Valery Dymshits (EUSP, Saint Petersburg). A tale of two cities: comparison of Jewish communities of Vladikavkaz and Mozdok
• Lyubov Chirkina (Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS, Moscow). “Ossetian pies at each table, or the traditions in the Caucasus are all the same”: case study of the Vladikavkaz Jewish community
• Yulia Oreshina (Georgian American University, Tbilisi). Field season 2023 in Georgia: following traces of the Jewish collective farms (online)
• Giorgi Zazunishvili (Georgian American University, Tbilisi). Jewish collective farms in Soviet Georgia: archival research versus oral history in 2023 (online, English)

18:00 –  20:00 (GMT +3:00) Mountain Jews
Moderator: Valery Dymshits

• Vladimir Kolesov (Independent researcher, Krasnodar). Unpublished manuscripts of Semyon Inotayev as a source of history and culture of the North Caucasus Mountain Jews (online)
• Arusyak Agababyan (Independent researcher, Krasnodar), Evgenia Nikitenko (HSE, Moscow). “Language of the Jews: mother tongue, forgotten, Azerbaijanian?” Linguistic competences of the Mountain Jews from Pyatigorsk and field notes on the Vartashen subdialect
• Tatyana Agranat (Institute of Linguistics of the RAS, Moscow). Experience of sociolinguistic observation in the Mountain Jews communities of the Moscow region
• Svetlana Amosova (Institute for Slavic Studies of the RAS, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow), Elena Fomenko (Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow). Agency and narrative strategies through the example of biographic interviews of Mountain Jewesses

November 23, 2023
(Participants meet at 11:30 at the Mezzanine)

12:00 – 14:00 (GMT +3:00) Archives and work with the sources
Moderator: Ksenia Viktorova

• Semyon Padalko (SPBU, Institute for Slavic Studies of the RAS, Saint Petersburg). Documents on Jewish history in the Volga region archives
• Anna Yudkina (Institute for Slavic Studies of the RAS, “Sefer” Center, Moscow). An anthropologist at the archive: how to work with archives when you are used to do interviews
• Semyon Charny (Interregional Public Organization VAAD, Moscow). Mini interviews as a replacement to the public opinion survey when searching for information about events in the USSR 
• Mikhail Arsenev (National Library of Russia, SPBU, Saint Petersburg). From experience of a librarian and a scholar: review of electronic resources that can be used to work with Jewish materials from the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia

15:00 – 17:00 (GMT +3:00) Remembering Holocaust Moderator: Anna Kirzyuk

• Irina Kozlova (RANEPA, Moscow). Places and dates of remembrance of the Holocaust victims, from Pskov to Nalchik (based on materials from field studies of 2020–2023)
• Maria Kaspina (Independent researcher, Jerusalem). Folklore motives in interviews on the Second World War (online)
• Sergey Belyanin (Institute for Slavic Studies of the RAS, RANEPA, Moscow), Ekaterina Zakrevskaya (Institute for Slavic Studies of the RAS, RANEPA, Moscow). Memories of Holocaust beyond the USSR territories that had been under Nazi occupation
• Evgeniya Petrokovskaya (HSE, Moscow). Memories of Holocaust in the Vladikavkaz Jewish community. Results of the 2023 field studies

17:15 – 18:45 (GMT +3:00) Remembering Holocaust (Continued)
Moderator: Svetlana Amosova

• Anna Kirzyuk (RANEPA, Moscow). Memories of Holocaust in Kalmykia: a “shared fate” narrative
• Maria Gavrilova (RANEPA, Moscow). “You don’t need to know the bad”: family memories of Holocaust and ethnic identity of the Soviet Jews
• Anastasia Krovitskaya (RSUH, HSE, Moscow), Dmitry Popov (HSE, Moscow). Representation of Holocaust in the mass media of the countries of the Central Eastern and Northern Europe in the second decade of the 21st century

19:00 –20:00 (GMT +3:00) Studies of Jewish cemeteries Moderator: Mikhail Arsenev

• Elena Berman (IrSTU, Irkutsk). Historical Jewish cemeteries of Irkutsk region. Results of the 2023 field and archival studies 
• Mikhail Vasilyev (Institute of Asian and African Countries at the MSU, “Sefer” Center, Moscow), Yulian Verkholevsky (Independent researcher, Minsk). Field study of a Jewish cemetery in Oshmyany: preliminary results (hybrid)

Attention! You can listen the conference also in Zoom, if you would like to participate online, please, mark it in the "comment" field. Zoom link will be sent at the first day of conference.
Morning and day session at November 22 will have simultaneous translation Eng-Rus. 
 
The Organizing Committee:
Svetlana Amosova
Anastasia Deka
Elena Fomenko
Maria Zarkh

Program
22 November 2023 (12:00-20:00)
23 November 2023 (12:00-20:00)