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​David Shneer is Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, Professor of History  and Jewish Studies, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association for Jewish Studies, faculty advisor for Yiddishkayt, co-editor in chief of East European Jewish Affairs, and was the inaugural faculty director of CU Boulder's  Post Holocaust American Judaism archive  until 2015. Listen to his interview for the Wexler Oral History Project at the Yiddish Book Center.

Upcoming Talks/Events

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March 13 / 8 p.m.
Jewish Studies performance lecture: Art is my Weapon
Vanderbilt University/ in Sarratt Cinema​
The Program in Jewish Studies presents Art is My Weapon, a performance/lecture from David Shneer and singer Jewlia Eisenberg.
The event will take place on Wednesday, March 13 at 8 p.m. in the Sarratt Cinema.
This event is co-sponsored by the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies.

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Wednesday, 27 March 2019/  1.10 pm -2.00 pm
Windsor Building, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham campus, Room 1-05.
David Shnneer will be delivering his talk as the featured speaker of the Persistent Archive of Grief, An exploratory symposium on images of loss, mourning and dispossession. This symposium is about images of loss, dispossession and violence in photography by the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. Building on his prize winning book, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust (Rutgers UP, 2011), his new book, Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph (Oxford UP, 2020) examines the life history of a single World War II photograph and the photographer who made it to de-parochialize and de-nationalize the Holocaust. 
​For more information click here.
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CU Boulder Artist/Scholar Collaborative Residency Chautauqua, Boulder, Colorado
​This residency is the first of its kind that brings together artists and scholars to take archival material, broadly conceived, and transform it or re-imagine it to create new knowledge. 

Lead of the Project: David Shneer

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​2019 Archive Transformed: A CU Boulder Artist/Scholar Collaborative Residency
Boulder, Colorado
May 19-23, 2019
The University of Colorado's Department of Religious Studies, CU Libraries and Archives, CU Art Museum, Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA), Center for Western Civilization, Thought, and Policy (CWCTP), along with the Louis P. Singer Fund for Jewish History and several departments is proud to announce the 2019 Archive Transformed Cohort.

For more information see the website.

An Overview: 

Archive Transformed
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