Association for Jewish Studies 2013 Conference Program

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 11.12

11:15 am – 2:00 pm Beacon B

THE POLITICS OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY Sponsored by the Center for Jewish History Chair: Francesca Bregoli (Queens College, CUNY) Workingmen and Widows: New York Jewish Fraternalism and the Emergent Welfare State, 1900–1930 Allan Amanik (New York University) Jewish Historians of Nationalism Confront an Era of Crisis: Koppel S. Pinson and Hans Kohn Brian Smollett (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Dual Loyalties and Foreign Agents? American Cold War Conceptions of the Nation and Zionism Amy Weiss (New York University)

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Beacon D

GENERAL LUNCH

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Tuesday

ANTI-JEWISH VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE GREAT WAR: THE CASE OF THE HABSBURG LANDS Chair: Michael K. Silber (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Last Pogrom? Anti-Jewish Violence in Moravia at the End of the Great War Michael Laurence Miller (Central European University) “Provocation”: Narratives of Anti-Jewish Violence in Bohemia, 1917–1918 Michal Frankl (Jewish Museum in Prague) “Swimming in the Danube”: Post-Traumatic Testimonies from Hungarian Jewry in the Wake of the White Terror Ilse Josepha Lazaroms (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Respondent: Marsha L. Rozenblit (University of Maryland)

Republic A

(By prepaid reservation only)

DIVISION CHAIR/ 11:15 am – 2:00 pm Independence West PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING

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